Category: For Students

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Ballet Builds Leadership Skills

Shellie Karabell’s blogs on leadership are often featured on Forbes.com so it’s exciting that a recent post of hers shared seven attributes why she thinks ballet can improve leadership skills in dancers. What a fantastic forum for ballet! Ballet can teach some amazing things that most people don’t realize. Young

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Health & Fitness

20 Ways to Love Your Body

Think of your body as the vehicle to your dreams.  Honor it.  Respect it.  Fuel it. Create a list of all the things your body lets you do.  Read it and add to it often. Become aware of what your body can do each day.  Remember it is the instrument

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Health & Fitness

How Our Muscles Make Dance Movements Possible

Why should your students want to know how their muscles work? Knowing how their muscles work will help your students understand how to execute their moves and combinations better and become better, more confident dancers. The fancy term for the study of human movement is kinesiology. Dance Kinesiology is the

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Tricks vs. Technique

Similar to dancers, as teachers and choreographers we also have to develop a pretty thick skin. Each year as our dancers hit the competition stage we place our bare naked creativity out to be scrutinized by our contemporaries. We place the very lives we live under the microscope. Our dancers,

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Take Care of Your Ballerina Hair

To keep your ballerina “look” you must take care of your hair! Pulling your hair into a ballerina bun every day (or many times a week) puts a lot of stress and tension on not only your hair but your scalp too. How do you take care of you hair

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Health & Fitness

New Information on Avoiding Muscle Cramps

You may think there’s nothing else that you can say about this topic. But there is! There has been a new series of studies on runners that reveals something new. It’s a fact that cramps are debilitating. And they seem to come when you expect them least. Common knowledge attributes

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Health & Fitness

What’s So Hot About Bone Broth?

Here in the US, we’re finally picking up on something that has been a considered a great healer in many cultures for years: bone broth. We even have the “Starbucks” of bone broth that has opened in New York called Brodo. Brodo’s owner, Marco Canora, native South American notes that

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Texting Best Practices

We are excited about one of our latest enhancements – texting via Jackrabbit. If you haven’t heard about it, read this quick blog explaining what it’s all about. In this post, we’ll give you some tips to use this feature correctly. Just like Spam with email, you can get spammed

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Stage Fright: Control It, Don’t Let It Control You

Have you nailed it in your living room and then had a meltdown on stage? Yes? Then you’ve suffered from stage fright. But stage fright doesn’t require that you be “on stage.” It could strike anytime you have an “audience” of any size. Some dancers get “stage fright” when simply

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A Fun Look at Three Famous Ballet Plots

Dancers of all ages take part in performing some of ballet’s most famous works. And while the dance and artistry is beautiful, the plots of these ballets are quite difficult to follow – even for some mature dancers. Recently, Rachel Rizzuto of Dance Magazine took this fact and ran with

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