This page is meant to give you a wide array of ideas of various online dance and fitness videos or livestreams you can watch to remain active while social distancing.
P.S. This is not an exhaustive list, but there is plenty to keep you busy for a very long time… If you have any suggestions, please email me and I will check them out. I approve of the information below.
Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity: An accumulation of at least 60 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous physical activity involving a variety of aerobic activities. Vigorous physical activities (where you will be sweating), and muscle and bone strengthening activities should each be incorporated at least 3 days per week.
Before taking part in any workout, you need to:
- Decide what type(s) of workout you feel like doing. It is a good idea to pick a few (a variety of intensity and skill set) and repeat the same ones for a few weeks in order to get used to them and work on the proper technique for each.
- Change into workout gear. This is very important to get your head in the game and prepare mentally to workout.
- Create a safe space to move. Be aware of your surroundings.
- Have a water bottle, a sweat towel, and any other accessories you will need for your workout accessible beside you.
- BE SAFE. Listen to your body.
- If you are not sure, don’t do it.
- If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.
- If you don’t have the room, don’t do it.
- Use common sense.
- Warm-up first!
- You can follow this video: 10 min warm-up for at home workouts
- Finish with a cool down & a stretch
- You can follow this video: 15 min full body stretch & cool down routine
- TIPS:
- You can invite friends to do the same workout as you via FaceTime or Ms Teams to feel connected and workout together, instead of alone.
- You can invite a family member to join you and make it a family affair! Everyone can benefit from exercising.
- Have fun! If you didn’t have fun, pick something else.
- You are highly encouraged to continue doing your regular walks, hikes, runs, and/or shooting hoops as per usual, as long as you are social distancing while exercising.
Dancing Alone Together aims to be a central resource for the dance world during this time of “social distancing”. Dancing Alone Together does not host classes or events, but rather collects information about the following types of online opportunities to make them easily accessible:
MOVE — Live-Streamed Dance Classes
To keep the community feeling alive, MOVE’s emphasis is on live-streamed classes as opposed to pre-recorded videos. The website listing is currently focused on dance classes (no fitness, wellness, mindfulness, etc.) from the United States due to the increasingly high volume of classes.
CREATE — Dance-Making Prompts and Communities
Aiming to foster new collaborations and movement exploration, CREATE shares dance-making challenges issued by choreographers or companies.
WATCH — Dance Performance Footage & Films
WATCH plugs the professional companies, presenters, and venues around the world who have made dance performances and dance films available online.
FITNESS WORKOUTS (cardio, abs, stretch, etc.) – FREE
- Barre Fitness
- Barre Fitness gets you a dancer’s body… without the dance! Learn more at http://www.barrefitness.com and follow us on social media @barrefitness We are Canada’s original Barre workout and the country’s fastest-growing Barre franchise! Our workouts combine the best elements of ballet barre with pilates, sports conditioning and stretching and is guaranteed to tighten, tone and transform your body.
- Fitness Blender
- All of Fitness Blender’s growth has been purely word of mouth; thank you FBfamily for sharing Fitness Blender with family & friends! Search over 500 free workouts by length, difficulty, training type, muscles used, calorie burn & more @ https://goo.gl/MCImAB Workout Programs for fast, safe, lasting results: http://bit.ly/13EdZgX
DANCE WORKOUTS (on YouTube or Vimeo) – FREE
- 1MILLION Dance Studio
- They have pre-recorded live classes to teach combos.
- (Alvin) Ailey Extension
- Hip Hop, West African, DanceFit, TheatreDance
- Ashley Bouder (Principal dancer with New York City Ballet) – Ballet Classes
- For students with previous ballet training
- GMD (Get Moving Dancers – Toronto, ON)
- 1 virtual contemporary barre class for you: a 53 minutes-long contemporary barre to warm you up and help keep you in shape.
- Harbour Dance Centre – Free Online Class Series
- Hip Hop, Contemporary Jazz, Ballet (various levels), Stretch & Strength, etc.
- Les Mills Dance – At Home Workouts
- Hip hop, house, club, and contemporary
LIVESTREAMS (follow them on Instagram to see the schedule) – FREE, by donation or set class fee
- (Alvin) Ailey Live Classes
- Hip hop, vogue, West African, turnout, 90s dance cardio, horton, afro flow yoga, and more…
- BalletX
- Contemporary, ballet, voguing, groove, strength & conditioning
- City Dance Corps
- Visit us at @citydancecorps and @cdc_yp and start following along with our daily free classes. All ages can join!
- Harbour Dance Centre
- $10 per class
- Ballet, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Jazz, Stretch & strength, etc.
- $10 per class
- In Studio | National Ballet of Canada | @instudiobc
- Mat Pilates, Full Body Barre Fitness, And more…
- San Francisco Ballet Company Livestreams
- Toronto Online Dance Collective
- Donate as you can or free
- Jazz, contemporary, ballet
- Donate as you can or free
Other Instagram accounts to follow for class or choreography:
- tmillytv
- hip hop, contemporary
- mercetrust
- Merce Cunningham modern dance technique
- mdcdance
- Millennium Dance Complex Los Angeles
- dancing.alone.together
ZUMBA – FREE
- Zumba.com videos – The real thing
- These are the best videos… but they are not full length as they are official and nothing can be posted online from the Zumba headquarters…
- Ms. Isabelle’s favourite Zumba jammers she follows… (full choreography)
- Zumba Fitness by Claudiu Gutu
YOGA – FREE
- Yoga with Adriene
- Yoga for Uncertain Times
- Yoga Practices by Length
- And so many more themes and options, it’s worth exploring…
Check out the https://thedancecentre.ca/ website, out of downtown Vancouver, for more resources and information on livestreams or online dance classes.