Health and Wellness Perf Arts

Catalog description

This course introduces and examines issues of health, well-being, and safety currently of concern in the performing arts industry. Topics including repetitive motion injuries, voice care, hearing health, workplace safety and environmental hazards will be presented and students will learn basic preventive and self-care strategies. Each student will study the discipline of Body Mapping in order to bring awareness to habitual patterns of tension and inefficient movement and to refine their body map in order to make art with efficient, healthy movement.