Inspire. Educate. Empower.

DDD Centre for Recovery is passionate about inspiring, educating, and empowering dancers, teachers, and health professionals to nourish their bodies in a healthful way, regardless of their body size, shape, race, colour, disability or background. We love to work with individuals and organisations that share the same value of respecting diversity and promoting inclusion instead of exclusion.

Ongoing Work:

Body Diversity in the Australian Dance Sector survey - collecting responses at Diverse Dancers Australia page:
https://diversedancersaustralia.org/projects

Past Work:

List of past presentations, media, and research:

• Research: What Do We Know About the Energy Status and Diets of Pre-Professional and Professional Dancers: A Scoping Review (published 12 December 2024)

• Love Your Reflection: Body Positive Webinar for Young People. Panel. September 2024.

• Dance Nutrition Workshop for Teachers. RAD Australia. January 2024.

• Innovative Nutrition Education for Dancers: Empowering their Health, Wellbeing, Performance and Selfcare. RAD Australia Conference. 20 January 2024.

• Nourish Your Body for Performance. Arts Wellbeing Colelctive. October 2023.

• How has lack of diversity impacted eating disorders in ballet? - working towards inclusive and safer practices. BIPoC Eating Disorders Conference. July 2023.

• Becoming a Supportive Teacher: How to help your dancers grow with nourishment and self-care. VIctorian Dance Festival. April 2023.

• Nourishing the Dancer’s Mind and Body. Victorian Dance Festival. April 2023.

• ABC article: Ballet was Catherine's entire life, but it caused her years of 'irreparable' damage. Now she's making sure the next generation is better off. 22 Janunary 2023.

• Eating: A Dancer’s Guide to Radical Self Acceptance. Leap n Learn with Disrupt Dance. 18 January 2023 (available for purchase from Leap n Learn website here).

• Dance Nutrition fundamentals for pre-teens and teenage dancers. Dance Revolution 2023, 17 January 2023.

• Cultural Considerations in Eating Disorders. ANZAED Conference 2022 workshop, August 2022

• Nutrition Counselling with Artistic Athletes recovering from eating disorders: a weight inclusive approach. EDRDPro EveryBODY Athletes Symposium September 2022

• In Support of Body Diversity in Ballet Training - Shifting the language and practices about bodies in the studio. RAD Australia Conference: Dance and Dance Education in an Age of Interconnectivity January 2022.

• How to talk about bodies. Dance Australia magazine issue 233 October/November/December 2021.

• Dancing Body Acceptance. A Blythe Coach. November 2021.

• ABC article: Dancers call for body image overhaul to protect next generation from eating disorders. ABC Brisbane.

• Effective and Empowering Nutrition Practices to Support Dancer’s Return to Stage. ASPAH Online Conference: Back on Stage. November 2021.

• Inclusive Dance Nutrition. Disrupt Dance Summit, September 2021.

• Food and Mood. Arts Wellbeing Collective (accessible recordings with Auslan interpreter and captioning available on their website)

• The Role of Lack of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ballet: Learning from the Past and Present to Shape the Future of Eating Disorder PRevention and Treatment in Dancers. ICED Conference 2021, Panel (Co-panelists include Misty Copeland, Heather Hower, Monika Saigal and Sasha Gorrell).

• Eating Disorders and Body Image Concerns in Dancers. OneDance UK One Magazine 2021.

• Nutrition for Optimal Performance. ASPAH online education, February 2021

• The Power of Eating Enough. ASPAH online panel, November 2020.

• Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders and Body Image Concerns. IADMS iConference, October 2020 (Co-presenter Shane Jeffrey)

• International Perspectives on Nutrition for Dancers. IADMS iConference, October 2020 (Co-presenters include Monika Saigal and Jasmine Challis)

• AusdanceNSW Safe Dance Think Tank, March 2020

• Dance Nutrition: Enhancing performance, positive body image and life-long health for dancers. RAD Conference: Shaping Bodies Shaping Minds, January 2020 (Co-presenter Shane Jeffrey)

• Dietitians Association Conference, May 2018

We have also written for:

• Dance Australia Magazine

• Dance UK Magazine

• JATI (Japan Association of Training Instructors)

You can learn more about our Dance Nutrition Workshop here.

To request a presentation or an article, please contact info@dddcfr.com.au.