Michel Maling 
Plantar fasciitis is a pretty common ailment amongst runners, walkers and even unfortunately dancers. In this post, I will look at how to cure Plantar Fasciitis with the use of some great stretches that are important for the flexibility and range of motion of the lower leg, ankle and foot muscles. Good flexibility around the … Read more
If you are a dancer, especially a ballet dancer, then you will know the endless fights you have with yourself to improve your ballet turnout. In this article, we will look at the right and wrong ways to turnout your feet, and also try some exercises to improve your ballet turnout. What Is Ballet Turnout? … Read more
In this article, I will deal with how to teach ballet to children under the age of five as well as the joys of teaching ballet to children. The views in this article are my views only, and I would love to have some other teachers of ballet commenting below on what they do in … Read more
As a teacher of ballet, it is always useful to have some ballet games for dance class that you can use on occasion to make your lessons more fun for the little ones, and also to give them a break from concentrating on technique all the time. If you incorporate ballet games for dance class, … Read more
Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias was born on the 18th of May 1919 as Peggy Hookham in Reigate, England. She was a solemn little girl with a thick page-boy haircut, a pet chipmunk, and she had a love of vigorous character dancing. Pavlova who was a star at the time made very little impression on … Read more
If you have or know a little girl who loves ballet dancing then she will love these girls ballet gifts. In this article, I have tried to find a few of the best ones that you can order easily online. To find out more about each little girls ballet gifts, click on the related picture. … Read more
Here is an old ballet, but also a very interesting ballet called Little Humped Back Horse. You can watch the entire production right here. This version above is more modernized than the original which is well over a hundred years old and was done at the Mariinsky. This old ballet is based on the fairytale … Read more
The Anna Pavlova Biography proves to be both interesting and compelling. She led a short life but achieved so much. She also managed to accomplish all her dreams, something most people don’t manage to do in a lifetime. Anna Pavlova The Ballerina Anna Pavlova was born in 1881 just outside St. Petersburg. She saw a … Read more
If you are a dancer in this day and age and you want to get stronger, then you have probably realised that dancing alone is not going to get you where you want to go. This is where cross training for dancers comes in. Most ballet dancers feel that they want to spend all their … Read more
Olga Preobrajenska was born in St. Petersburg on January 21, 1871. I have yet to find out what her real surname is hence the two different ways of spelling it in the title of this page. I have a feeling the one way is the Russian way and the other the English way. Her mother … Read more