Guests - Cara Dixon and Megan Meier

Hosted By - Courtney Ortiz and Lesley Mealor

In Episode 196 of Making The Impact - A Dance Competition Podcast, we explore just a taste of the exciting and educational world of anatomy and alignment for dancers! Cara Dixon of Relative Motion and Megan Meier of Oklahoma Performing Arts Collective share their expertise as we scratch the surface of this subject.

Topics Include:

•  The importance of working in parallel as well as turn out
•  Hypermobility and the dangers of going too far
•  Understanding alignment early on in dance training

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