Here are some great tips for improving pirouettes. Take a look at each one and try to apply these corrections the next time you’re doing a pirouette combination in ballet class. These tips assume you already have a general understanding of how to do a en dehors pirouette in retiré. These pirouette tips aren’t just...
Ballet for beginners is the perfect place to learn how to dance! Here are 5 positions your son or daughter can practice at home to get started.
I currently have two daughters at home who at the beginning of 2020 were both enrolled in three or four dance and ballet lessons a week attending them in the dance studio. Then the pandemic
This is a simple 6-step guide on how to inexpensively build your own ballet barre in your home with readily available hardware items, plus other alternative options.
A photo guide to the basic Ballet Barre Exercises for complete beginners to do in class or at home, including tendu, degage, grande battement and plie
A handstand is one of the most important skills in gymnastics. Not only is it one of the basics on floor, the straight-body handstand position is everywhere in other skills. The handstand position …
Dance Studio Marketing 101 - Get clear on your goals, determine the best marketing approaches for your particular dance studio, and stick to them!
If you haven’t tried barre yet, you are MISSING OUT! Barre studios are popping up everywhere, and for good reason. Pin It! Barre workouts target multiple muscle groups with small, isometric exercises. What does this mean? Building lean muscle with tiny incremented movements. Literally pulsing, squeezing, and tucking just a few INCHES will leave you shaking like jello, while toning your entire body. No wonder people are addicted to barre! However, for beginners, barre can be intimidating. I'm here to debunk the stereotype that barre classes are only for dancers. Wrong wrong wrong! Barre is for every age, every
Give your body a cool down while elongating your muscles, enriching flexibility and calming your mind with this 12 minute ballet stretch routine at home.
Ballet Theory Mega Activity Pack Never be stuck for a theory activity again! I have assembled my most popular and beloved theory worksheets and bundled them all up into one big value pack. This ballet theory activity pack contains over 20 pages of worksheets, coloring pages, word searches, flash cards, theory match activities, posters, and classification exercises. For beginning students there is a beautiful positions of the feet colouring sheet which is also perfect to print out as a poster for your studio, a gorgeous worksheet featuring Nina Ballerina for your youngest students to colour and match the terms to the picture (terms include, plié, tendu, passé/retiré, sauté, first position and second position), plus a fill in the gap activity sheet. For your inter to advanced students there are a range of activities available. The 45 printable ballet flash cards are perfect for group activities to introduce and revise body positions and directions. (see pictures for terms included). This can be followed up by the directions worksheet. After that there will be no more excuses for not knowing basic body positions, directions and positions. The warm up activity sheet is a great conversation starter and helps students identify 'good' warm up activities and helps them to devise their own warm-up routine. Theory match can be used a sheet at a time or given out as a pack and is great for revising commonly used theory terms. Ballet step classification introduces different ways of classifying ballet steps, provides a classification activity and is a perfect springboard into a choreography workshop.
In the new Swungover book, Practice Swing: The Swungover* Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Guide To Improving Your Own Dancing, the book ends with a special appendix that tells people how to build their o…
Packing after a dance recital will look different for every parent. It will depend on how many items your dancer was in, whether you are taking costumes home or whether they are staying with the studio, how tired your dancer is after the recital, and how late the recital finished for example.
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Barre studios are catching on to client demands for at-home workout videos. This guide will help you find the right online barre service for you.
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If you haven’t tried barre yet, you are MISSING OUT! Barre studios are popping up everywhere, and for good reason. Pin It! Barre workouts target multiple muscle groups with small, isometric exercises. What does this mean? Building lean muscle with tiny incremented movements. Literally pulsing, squeezing, and tucking just a few INCHES will leave you shaking like jello, while toning your entire body. No wonder people are addicted to barre! However, for beginners, barre can be intimidating. I'm here to debunk the stereotype that barre classes are only for dancers. Wrong wrong wrong! Barre is for every age, every
