Free Injury Prevention Screening for Dancers!

Would you like to stay injury free and dance through nutcracker season? Want to prevent injuries that could dampen your dance dreams?

As part of its Dancer Advantage Program, Reform. A True Pilates Studio is teaming up with Saratoga Hospital’s Performing Artists Rehabilitation Program to offer free 15-minute assessments that will evaluate any muscle imbalances that could lead to dance related injuries, and suggest exercises to strengthen a dancer’s core. Having performed in the Capital District for over 20-years, and also currently teaching in the Dance Department at Skidmore College, both Meghan Del Prete (Level 5 Certified Romana’s Pilates Instructor and owner of Reform Pilates) and Sarah DiPasquale (PT and DPT of the Performing Artists Rehabilitation Program) are passionate about the promotion of injury prevention within the dance community, because a minor injury or misdiagnosis could end a dancer's dream of dancing, whether or not it is their chosen career.

For more information about the Dancers Advantage Program and the injury prevention screenings, go to www.reformyourbody.com, and e-mail or call the Reform studio at info@reformyourbody.com and (518) 871-1315. To find out about the Performing Artist Physical Therapy at Saratoga Hospital, go to www.saratogahospital.org or call (518) 583-8383. The screenings will take place at Reform. A True Pilates™Studio at 18 Division St., Suite 203, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.

Sarah DiPasquale (PT, DPT) is a former professional dancer now specializing in Performing Artist Physical Therapy at Saratoga Hospital. Sarah is an adjunct faculty member in the Dance Department at Skidmore College teaching Anatomy and Kinesiology: A Dancer's View and Introduction to Dance.

Meghan Del Prete (Level 5 Certified Romana’s Pilates Instructor and Studio Owner), is very excited to bring the Dancer Advantage Program, which offers Pilates at a discount to Dancers at her studio. She offers 2 scholarships for the program year-round. Meghan graduated with Honors in Dance from Skidmore College. She has been a faculty member teaching Pilates 1 & 2 in the Skidmore Dance Department since 2005.

Reform. A True Pilates™ Studio offers private and semi-private instruction as well as small group mat classes in a beautiful, light-filled studio that is fully equipped with Gratz Apparatus™, state-of-the-art training equipment. All of the highly trained instructors have been certified by Romana’s Pilates™ at True Pilates™ NY. This gives the studio the advantage of keeping the integrity of the Pilates method pure, as it was taught by Joseph Pilates and handed down to Romana Kryzanowska. The studio is the only location in the Greater Capital District –Saratoga region that offers lululemon athletica.