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Be Sweet to your Feet – Free Sample
This week for What’s In Your Dance Bag?, I want to give you the opportunity to take The Gilden Tree Soft Feet Challenge and get a free sample of their Nourishing Foot Cream which is organic and...
View ArticleCelebrate National Dance Week
National Dance Week is approaching ( April 25-May 4, 2008 ) and if you haven’t already, now is the time to decide how you’re going to celebrate! Obviously if you’re visiting this blog, you probably...
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Battement
Photo by PBoGs I’m sure that students reading this blog have used or heard the term battement before. If grand battement immediately comes to mind, I’m not surprised, as the word battement is commonly...
View ArticleWhat I Did Over Summer Vacation…
If your dance teacher asks you to write an essay on this topic when you return to dance this fall, will you be able to fill your page with descriptions of dance related activities or… not so much. For...
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Dancing with the Stars (Not Those Stars)
Celebrities get their fair share of exposure so, no, this is not another post on reality tv’s hit show. Instead, I wanted to highlight one woman’s realized dream to create dance in zero-gravity. Jeanne...
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Pilobolus
There is much I could write about Pilobolus, a dance company that’s been around for over 35 years. If you’ve been fortunate enough to see them live as I have, you probably understand their appeal and...
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Turnout – Part I
What You’ll Find In Part I How Important Is Turnout, Really? Explaining The Mechanics Of Turnout Recognizing Proper/Improper Turnout Nature vs. Nurture If you want to learn some techniques for...
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Turnout – How to Nurture Your Turnout
This is Part II of a two-part series on turnout. I highly recommend you read Part I first. It explores the purpose of turnout in dance, the anatomy of outward rotation at the hip joint, and recognizing...
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Let’s Hear it for the Boys!
photo by ravenmaven A while back I did a post entitled Encouraging Boys to Dance. It had a good response and I was even asked to submit an edited version for the PTA (National Parent Teacher...
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A FREE Download for Parents of Dancers
Photo by Bowena It often starts innocently with that first preschool dance class. A year or two later, one class becomes two, or three, or four. Before you know it, your entire household’s schedule...
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9 Dance Books I Can’t Live Without
Today’s post is a result of my participation in Day Two of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog which is a program being hosted by Darren Rowse at his site Problogger. His blog on — well… blogging! — is one...
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Your Lobby Library — 9 Dance Biographies for Students
The lobby of your studio is a great place for waiting dancers and families to learn a bit more about dance, its history, and its artists. Picture books are a great way to introduce your dancers and...
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Biographies You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
Image by gerald2.0 via Flickr I love books and I love a good story. And sometimes the stories that are true can capture my imagination as much as any tale of fiction, particularly when the story...
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Grace Makes Beauty Out Of Ugly Things
Every day in America, approximately 46 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer. More than 160,000 children worldwide, die of cancer each year. There’s no question, childhood cancer is ugly....
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Alla Osipenko: The life of a Kirov ballerina
Who is Alla Osipenko? For many dance students and balletomanes, her name and the name of the Kirov Ballet (now the Mariinsky) calls to mind Soviet dancer defections, the KGB and the Cold War....
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