Dance science utilizes a combination of sciences to facilitate healthier dance professionals and community. It is a ‘living’ science, it is used (hopefully more and more) in dance studios every day. The dancers themselves utilize its contents, for example when they choose to eat a healthy breakfast or when they warm up and cool down before and after their busy day.

Dance science helps the dance community to make healthier choices during their every day training. When questioning traditional methods, the outcome has two possible impacts. Either the ‘old fashioned’ method was right and its practice continues, or the previous method has been proven to be less effective or unhealthy and it will undergo a reform process. Reforms to traditions or habits do not happen instantly. When the field is as widely spread around the world and diverse as the classical ballet community, the process of change can be particularly difficult.

However united the training may seem, the art of dance remains individual. The Russian classical ballet syllabus reformer, Agrippina Vaganova was famous for letting her pupils to ‘bend’ the dance technique for the best possible use with their bodies. Biomechanical studies conducted using elements from classical ballet technique can explain many phenomena perceived and the reasons behind the aesthetics and tradition.