“Conditioning the dancer as an athlete and as an artist is a mind-body exercise,” as Eric Franklin suggests, and “strength, balance, flexibility, alignment, and imagery training need to come together as a balanced whole.” The CORE methodology of training remains inherent in our dance training to create effortless movement patterns that are efficient and graceful. Dancers have developed motor plans and tremendous skill over time, just as other athletes have. However, their motor plans are built around their physical limitations. Often, these limitations coupled with improper training techniques over time cause injuries, such as lateral ankle sprains, fractures, patellar femoral pain, plantar fasciitis, hip labral tears, and many others. Strength, power training, and agility training, although imperative to dancing, can be detrimental if faulty movement patterns exist. Additionally, poor motor recruitment, imbalances, and asymmetries are all factors that frequently cause a dancer to have difficulty with certain steps and movement patterns. Moreover, controlled by the nervous system, spatial orientation, balance, and the ability to initiate movement are critical to efficiency in dance. The approach that CORE Fitness uses with dancers at all levels to generate flawless dance technique and an injury-free successful dance career is to address their weakest links. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.