Giving students, teachers, and parents an edge in dance education
As children prepare for preschool and begin to participate in more structured activities, dance class may be the first time he/she is separated from you. As a parent, you may be unfamiliar with the procedures of a dance class or operations within a particular studio, but whether you have had experience with dance in your [...]
Creative Dance for Children A creative dance class designed for children will help them prepare for a future in dance and other physical activities. In class, dancers are provided with the opportunity to use their imagination, creativity, and self expression while developing skills that are the building blocks of all movement and dance activities. They [...]
Thanks so much, everyone, for your participation and for reading! Students, I hope that you discoverd some fresh information that you can take with you into the new school year. If there is something that really hit home, something that you would have liked to have seen here, or you just want to say “hello,” [...]
The secret to jumping is not so secret, it is the same hard work that goes into most everything in dance: proper alignment, solid technique, and practice, practice, practice! These thorough, step-by-step pointers, however, will help you as you practice vertical jumping and can even be applied to traveling jumps or leaps.
The mindset plays a very serious role in how we dance. Negative self-talk is damaging and has a way of oozing out to the people around you, actually affecting the performance of others. For instance, a little joke, a negative or sarcastic comment about your dancing can lead to another dancer feeling worse about any [...]
Dancers are an interesting sub-species. Observing dance students in their natural habitat (the studio) reveals that they tend to revel in their strengths and dwell heavily on their weaknesses. Dancers maintain a detailed mental list of their shortcomings as they wistfully pine for the “natural” abilities of another. Meanwhile, a dancer will redundantly practice the [...]
The word sounds a little crazy but Squidoo is actually a website where anyone can write and create a page (or lens as they call it at Squidoo) about anything… and I do mean anything. Squidoo is not the only website out there (Hubpages is another). What I like about Squidoo, though, is that advertising [...]
The Back-to-school Teach-a-thon is less than a week away! I just wanted to remind everyone that is participating to send me your links once you have published your post. It is ok to publish and then send me the links during the event. They can still be added as they are received. Plus, there’s still [...]
I recently read a post at Citystreams about a color guard uniform order gone wrong. It was an all-too-familiar account that I know many dance studios face year after year as recitals approach. Costume companies are a hot topic on dance message boards each spring. Humans all make mistakes. However, if a costume company has [...]
Some questions about the upcoming Teach-a-thon have been raised and I thought I would address them here in case others have been wondering the same things. What kind of posts are you looking for? I’ve purposefully left this very open so that a wide variety of dance topics and styles may be covered. Your post [...]
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 popularity with audiences. The company’s artistic directors and dancers have managed to create “a profoundly serious artistic enterprise that [...]
