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All posts tagged "Tips & Advice"
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5.6KDance HealthCaring for your dancing hands and wrists – give ‘em a hand as winter sets in.
As dancers, our hands and wrists help us to execute choreography, express ourselves in movement, propel us through floorwork and more. Yet...
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15.4KTips & AdviceImprovisation: It’s all inside
There’s an arguably witty, yet wise response out there to the dismissive “My kid could draw that!” – “Well, he/she didn’t.” This...
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4.5KTips & AdviceDance education on the cheap
Nothing can replace taking class for developing technique and artistry, of course. But learning about dance history, contemporary choreographers and companies, technique...
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4.3KDance Studio Owner3 Things You MUST DO To Not Lose Students This Summer
May I speak freely for a second? I think that there’s a lot of reactive retention planning going on. I think that...
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5.8KTips & AdviceA guide to ultimate team spirit
Teamwork. It is the cornerstone of most sports. Working together with your peers and the athletes in your group to succeed as...
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4.1KDance Studio OwnerThe 5 Step Health Check-Up For Your Website
Your website is like a 24hr salesman for your studio. It is the online face of your studio. So we want to...
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9.5KTips & AdviceTop 10 takeaways from dance competition
When you’re wrapped up in the craziness that is dance competition, you sometimes forget to look around and appreciate all of the...
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13.6KTips & AdviceChoosing the best summer intensive for you!
I loved going to summer intensives. Starting my freshman year of high school, I was able to go to one or two...
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18.3KDance HealthNew Year, New You: Fit and fabulous with Rachelle di Stasio
A new year is always exciting – it’s a brand new opportunity to recharge, start fresh, set some goals and get focused....
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4.6KDance HealthHow to turbo charge your New Year’s goals: What dancers can learn from successful pros in the arts
Dancers, musicians and artists are a dedicated and driven group. We are big thinkers with lofty goals and dreams, but sometimes it...
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19.4KTips & AdviceHeadshots: How to get your best pic
“There simply is no more important investment for a working artist than excellent headshots.” That’s what Broadway Dance Center’s Director of Educational...
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6.5KDance HealthStart getting ready for audition season now!
For many dancers, the holidays are a tricky time. Many non-dancer friends and family don’t necessarily have to think about fueling their...
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7.5KTips & AdviceBeauty expert’s book seeks to impart ‘skills to empower and achieve’
Internationally recognized beauty and image expert Christine Dion is known throughout the industry for her career as a model and later as...
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7.9KTips & Advice9 Ways to Prepare for Back to Dance
Summer is almost over. But don’t cry…because summer coming to a close means dance is about to start back! Here, Dance Informa...
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5.6KSpotlightGet ready for college dance this summer!
So, congratulations, you’ve been accepted into a university or conservatory dance program. You’re counting down the days until you arrive on campus....
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16.5KDance Health5 Things I Want to Tell Dancers: Dance Medicine Specialist
The next in Dance Informa’s “5 Things I Want to Tell Dancers” series. Here, we receive advice from a dance-medicine specialist about...
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9.7KDance HealthWhy is everyone drinking Kombucha tea these days?
Probiotic drinks like kombucha tea are one of the hottest trends in health and nutrition. Once thought of as something your hippie...
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9.6KDance HealthTips for Joint Popping: Is it safe to pop your hips?
It used to be that I had to pop my hips. I simply could not turn out or get my leg high...
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10.1KFeature ArticlesLift up yourself with these mantras
An audition doesn’t go well. You blank out during a performance. It’s quite an off-day in class. We’ve all been there. Those...
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18.0KDance Studio OwnerHow Can Instagram Help Grow Your Studio?
It is now common knowledge that a social media presence is important to growing and developing a business, and dance studios are...
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112.5KSpotlightWhat Dance Competition Judges Want
Competition season is upon us. Costumes are ordered (and most likely rhinestoned), dances are finished (and hopefully clean), and hotels are booked....
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14.0KSpotlightWhat it means to be a ‘Teaching Artist’
Our teachers are the people who guide us, correct us, inspire us, mentor us, help us and, above all, educate us. Dance...
