Episode 151: What Dancers Can Teach You About Healthy Feet

Emily Milam Kent graduated Magna Cum Laude, earning a BSEd in Dance Education from the University of Georgia. She began working with Pilobolus in 1999 working first as a dancer and collaborator and then Teaching Artist. She has created original works for high school and university dance companies for Pilobolus and as an individual artist. She has set classic Pilobolus repertoire on high school and university students; she and her partner Matt Kent, were the first to have the process notated by a Laban Notator. During her career with Pilobolus she has created new programs to share the Pilobolus Method to people of all ages and abilities to people around the country: Pilobolus @ Play, the flagship touring education residency, Connecting with Balance, aprogressive program for the aging population, The Pilobolus Teaching Manual, to share our techniques with teachers. She spends her days teaching and training teachers to bring Pilobolus’s ideals of collaboration and improvisation to young and old.

Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Emily Kent about what dancers can teach you about your feet.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

- How many dancers have been taught to move in certain ways, and how they can move away from that.

- Why it’s a good idea to tell people they are playing games in a dance class.

- How movement and dance classes teach people how to have better balance.

- How everyone at any age can benefit from taking a dance and why you shouldn’t be afraid to.

- How pointe shoes can really mess up your feet and how they aren’t part of modern dance.

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