Keeping Healthy While Dancing

With the recent outbreak of the Swine Flu, dancers need to be a bit more diligent in taking the necessary precautions to prevent the swine flu from running rampant throughout our dance communities. As you all know, we come in direct contact with more people in one evening of dancing,  than most people come in contact with during an entire week. Many dancers travel in dance circles that extend beyond their local dance venues traveling to out of town dance conventions and competitions. 

During dance conventions and competitions, there are often hundreds of dancers, dancing with each other, touching each others hands and dancing in close proximity not only to their partner, but with many other dance couples as well. As dancers we tend to burn the candle at both ends, while holding a match to the center, so our resistance to illness can be compromised, as we are often overtired, under fed and dehydrated. 

Remembering to wash your hands,  or using a hand sanitizer often, and not  touching your eyes, nose or mouth will tremendously help prevent spreading germs.  Also try and get enough sleep, eat healthy and stay hydrated. Be sure and seek medical attention as soon as you start developing symptoms.

We must also take into account that the pros that we are often taking workshops from travel extensively, in and out of our country. If we all do our part, hopefully we will not invite the dreaded flu to join us on any of our dance floors. Extreme precaution seems to be in order with this particular strain of flu. No dancing pigs, please!

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