Capacity to Capability: Returning the Adolescent Artist-Athlete to Performance
A two-day course for clinicians ready to bridge the gap between mid/late-stage rehab and dance performance readiness, specifically for the adolescent dancer.
What you’ll walk away with.
Appreciate how growth, maturation, and specialization influence long-term athletic development and clinical decision-making in dancers.
Utilize principles of physical literacy, athletic motor skill competency, and strength and conditioning to support long-term dancer development and performance readiness.
Apply a performance-focused rehabilitation framework for the specialized youth adolescent artist-athlete.
Gain insight on progression and regression of training variables and environmental constraints to challenge dancers progressively while accounting for healing timelines, performance demands, and individual capacity.
Utilize communication strategies that improve adherence, facilitate load-management decisions, and support collaboration between dancers, families, educators, artistic staff, and healthcare providers.
Two days, built to move from theory into practice.
We’d love for you to join us!
Belmont, CA 94002
Rob spent eight years as a professional dancer in the Los Angeles commercial dance industry before earning his Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Chapman University. That dual background, performer first, clinician second, shapes how he teaches: not just what the research says, but what it actually looks like to apply it inside a working studio.
His clinical work spans every level of dance, from youth and pre-professional students to collegiate dancers and professionals performing in concert, commercial, and theme park settings. He is faculty at Chapman University across both the dance and physical therapy departments, and has guest taught at institutions including The Juilliard School, NYU Tisch, School of American Ballet, Trinity Laban in the UK, Debbie Allen Dance Academy, and American Ballet Theatre’s Gillespie School.
Rob has presented at national and international dance medicine conferences including IADMS, PAMA, and DANCE/USA. He designed and teaches a longevity course within Chapman University’s dance curriculum, and built this course specifically to address what he sees most often in clinic: the gap between meeting a dancer at the tail end of symptom resolution, from medically cleared, to truly performance ready.