The Body Keeps Score: Performance Pressure, the Nervous System & Burnout

Описание: Series: Behind the Drive to Excel: Performance Pressure & Perfectionism in Dance

Featuring: Kristin Deiss (Co-founder of Danscend; dance educator)

EPISODE 3
The Body Keeps Score: Performance Pressure, the Nervous System & Burnout

📺 Episode Description

Joined by Kristin Deiss of Danscend, Bri and Michele explore how chronic performance pressure and perfectionism impact a dancer’s nervous system ...contributing to exhaustion, anxiety, injury, emotional shutdown, and burnout. This episode reframes burnout not as weakness, but as a physiological stress response, and offers early warning signs of overload along with practical, body-based tools to support regulation and sustainable performance.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Intro

01:13 -How does long-term performance pressure impact a dancer’s nervous system?

03:46 - Why do so many dancers feel exhausted, anxious, or disconnected, even when things look successful on the outside?

06:44- What’s the connection between chronic stress, injury, burnout, and emotional overwhelm in dancers?

08:57 - What are some early signs that a dancer’s nervous system is overloaded?

12:01- For dancers whose systems are already overloaded, what are a few body-based or nervous-system-friendly practices they can begin using to support regulation and recovery?

RESOURCES:

17:49 - FREE StEPS Initiative Course: https://apollaperformance.com/pages/s...

18:18- Contact Kristin Deiss/Danscend!

18:32 - Instagram: @danscendofficial

18:36 - Email [email protected]

18:40 - Website: www.danscend.com

19:07 - Danscend Dance Teacher Library: https://danscend.com/program/danscend...

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