Since 2021, WIJS fysio + gym has been a dedicated partner of ICK Dans Amsterdam. WIJS provides the dancers with treatments and supports them in developing a strong bodily awareness essential to the virtuosic dance quality they bring to the stage.
It is a special collaboration: the physiotherapists are present every month for scheduled sessions, yet whenever unexpected injuries occur, time and space are made day or night for the ICK dancers.
A practice familiar with ICK’s dance method, WIJS can effectively train the dancers to prevent injuries.
Arnaud Macquet, therapist at WIJS and former dancer with the company, explains:
“I am intimately familiar with the company’s physical approach, having experienced it from the inside. With my expertise as a physiotherapist and my personal experience of its intense movement vocabulary, I aim to enhance the well-being of its dancers.”
ICK dancers' experiences
— “It is great to have a physio that had a career in the same company because he is able to relate and understand us very efficiently. He also can give us more input about how to approach rehearsals with an injury.”
— “It is a luxury to have the attentive care of Wijs, not only as a physio but also as a trainer. It has helped me to prevent injuries and how to make my dancing body stronger.”
— “Physio helped me a lot with my scoliosis. I realized that ita lso led to reaffirmation of my body’s axis and improved the quality of my movements.”
