Last month was Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. There are an estimated 47 million people worldwide living with Alzheimer’s disease and other...
Summer programs are incredible platforms for dancers to grow as artists, technicians and people. For so many, the summer is really when...
Dance Informa considers how our cheers really affect our dancers. If you’ve attended a number of dance competitions or recitals, at some...
Whether you are a retired professional, a young student just starting out or an individual with a passion for movement but not...
My daughter is now taking five dance classes a week, so at a recent visit to her pediatrician, I asked about testing...
Every little ballerina dreams about it, and every adult ballerina remembers it: that first time en pointe. On the less magical side...
The myth of the dreaded “Freshman 15” can be daunting for any college student, but it could be particularly unnerving for college...
That “gawky” feeling – when limbs feel too long for one’s body, as if not really their own. In the pre-teen and...
For many, dance is a passion, profession, even a way of life. It is something we may even “eat, sleep and breathe”....
Most dance forms look for “line”, that curvilinear continuity through the body that can be so aesthetically pleasing to the viewer and...
Sometimes you may find yourself wondering why you’re not as flexible as your friends, or why you’re flexible in different ways. Everybody...
You waited all this time, took the required amount of classes, worked extra hard on your ballet technique and were finally approved...
One of the best things you can do to maximize improvement at your dance convention or intensive is to fuel your body right....
These five foods have the nutrition chops to actually earn the title “superfoods”. There’s substantial research to back up health claims, they’re...
Have you ever been in a dance studio setting and seen a student taking class with an injury? Have you heard a...
Our feet – on which we balance, turn and extend. They also carry us through life when we’re not dancing. The human...
For me, the past year has been filled with every dancer’s worst nightmare: injury. I herniated a disc in my lower back...
We’ve all heard the importance of cross-training for dancers. How methods such as Pilates, yoga, Gyrotonic, resistance training, cardio and, yes, even...
As dancers, our hands and wrists help us to execute choreography, express ourselves in movement, propel us through floorwork and more. Yet...
As dancers, we are probably all very familiar with the use of ice on small, localized areas to help with various aches...
Conflicting ideas are rampant in the lives of pre-teens and teens – they often hear completely different messages from the authority figures...
What do Sylvie Guillem, Natalie Portman, Serena Williams, Alec Baldwin and Joaquin Phoenix have in common? They are all very public about...