Who is Your Favorite Dancer? – Pas de Trois

by David on August 27, 2010

This article is part of a collaboration project that I am working on with Henrik from Tights And Tiaras and Catherine from 4dancers. We are working together on “Pas de Trois” at dancing3.com. Each week we will present a question or issue pertaining to the dance world. We’ll foster a discussion on the topic and [...]

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Pas de Trois @ Dancing3.com – New Dance Site!

August 19, 2010

Hey readers! We’ve got an exciting new Dance site starting up this week. This is a project that Catherine at 4dancers, Henrik at Tights and Tiaras, and I have been preparing for a little while now. Through Pas de Trois, we hope to get a lot of positive discussions started about dance. Each week we’ll [...]

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Stretching – Basic Ideas to Get Flexible

August 10, 2010

Flexibility was one of my many concerns when I started to take ballet. When we think of ballet dancers, we tend to picture extremely flexible people with their leg somewhere we’ve never imagined it could reach. I thought I was too old to get the splits. I know a lot of other people worry about flexibility too, especially guys. I get asked about it a lot. Sometimes it is the first question after people find out I’m a dancer, “can you do the splits?” To which I usually answer, “not in these jeans.”

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Interview with Tanner and D – BfM Podcast 9

August 3, 2010

Tanner and D both dance at different studios in the area. They come by occasionally to take some partnering classes. We got together after class to see how it was for them when they got started in ballet.

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5 Books for Every New Beginner in Ballet

July 20, 2010

When you decide to start taking ballet, you’ll be excited to start learning what you can. Outside of class you may be looking for resources to study up. There aren’t many books geared toward the brand new ballet student. A lot of books are advanced enough to confuse or intimidate the new beginner. There is a lot to learn about ballet and it comes with time. Here are 5 books that are suitable for the brand new ballet student.

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Teaching Boys to Dance

July 3, 2010

Yesterday was the first Boys’ Creative Dance class of the summer at my local studio. This is a class that I am teaching for elementary school aged boys. We offer it for free, in order to encourage boys and parents to take interest. You should be glad to hear that the first class was a great success. It was a success in the sense that I believe the boys and the parents both saw that dance wasn’t such a bad idea. I will go over a little bit about how the class got started, and why I think a boys creative dance class is a great way to introduce elementary school aged boys to dance.

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Dance Journal for Success

June 21, 2010
keep a dance journal

A dance journal is a helpful tool for either the beginner or the advanced dancer. It is a good habit to develop a practice of reflecting on your dance improvement. Dance journals can also be a good reference for yourself. I’m going to tell you a little bit about how to keep an effective dance journal, and then you will be able to form a practice that works for you.

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Mixed Martial Arts vs. Ballet (Maxim)

June 12, 2010

Thanks to Twitter user “DoctorDancebelt” for posting this link to an article on Maxim online.

Maxim is the ultimate “dude” magazine, meaning it is all about scantily clad attractive women and “college humor.” I’m not a reader (I prefer Esquire, the jokes are funnier), but I was interested to read what Sports Column blogger Joshua David Stein had to say about ballet.

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Imagination and Performance

May 17, 2010

I’ve been going to graduate school (for teaching) and performing as Von Rothbart in Swan Lake. This has kept me pretty busy. One of my professors suggested I write a short response to a book that we read, “Releasing The Imagination” by Maxine Greene. She suggested that I relate my experience rehearsing for and performing Swan Lake, as well as my experience learning dance, to the book. I thought I would post the short response here for anyone who might be interested.

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Are You Too Old to Start Ballet?

April 12, 2010

Ballet takes an intense amount of training, taking years to develop proficient skill. Because of this, ballet is often considered to be reserved for those who start at a very young age, maintaining steady training, and retiring at a young age. It seems that everyone over the age of 12 wonders if they are too old to start ballet. The short answer is, “NO!”, you are not too old to start ballet. The long answer takes into account what you want to get out of ballet and the age you start. In this post I will talk a little bit about my personal experience as a late-beginner. I will also discuss the reality of when dancers begin studying ballet, particularly pertaining to male dancers, as well as what options are open to nearly all dancers, regardless of when you start.

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