Tips for Teachers and Dancers
As a ballet dancer, you know that your feet, ankles, calves, and legs are your most valuable assets. Let’s look at ways on how to protect your feet and safeguard your lower extremities, as well as common injuries and how you can avoid them. How To Protect Your Feet And What To Watch For Dancers…
As you probably already know, the best core strengthening exercise is the plank, so we are going to look at testing core strength using the plank. All dancers and athletes need to have strong core muscles. These are muscles that work to stabilize the entire body and include the transverse abdominals, erector spinae, the obliques,…
Hip flexors are very important muscles, and not only for dancers, but for everyone. If you are looking for an unlock your hip flexors review, read on. Most people have very tight hip flexors due to sitting all day at work and not stretching them out enough or even strengthening them. Today we are going to…
The best way to teach the ballet positions feet to little ones, is to use a language that little dancers will understand. It is not important in a five year old’s mind to learn what 1st Position is, they are just there to dance and have fun. With little ballerinas it is best to stick to…
If you are asking ‘how do I jump higher in my dancing,’ then I have some tips for you taken from male ballet dancers that just seem to soar through the air so effortlessly. The aim when you do grande allegro in ballet is to look as if you are flying for an instant. It’s…
The elements of dance are the tools of the craft. These are things you already do in everyday life but haven’t thought about much. The elements of dance are the foundational concepts and vocabulary that help students develop movement skills and understand dance as an artistic practice. In this article, I am going to be relating…
With the internet, we are able to do so much more nowadays than say twenty years ago. You can even go as far as having ballet lessons online. We would have had a good laugh at this all those years ago, but now it seems almost normal. Yep, all you need to do is Google…
I have just bought myself Adventures In Pre School Dance, Imaginative Series, Volume 3 and am suitably impressed. I was getting a bit sick of all my existing themes, ideas, and music, so when I saw this collection by Andrew Holdsworth I decided to give it a try. There is nothing quite like revamping your classes…
Baby ballet class can be both frustrating and challenging for a dance teacher, but if you plan it right, it can be an absolute breeze – well not really, but you can get as close to perfect as you can with that age group. Planning And How To Teach Your Baby Ballet Class When planning…
As a teacher of dance, it is always good to know what to expect from children at their various ages so that you can better prepare your classes. The most important thing when teaching children to dance is to make their lessons fun and exciting. You will be able to tell by the expressions on…