July 9th
First of all I would like to thank you for the great website and your great blog! I am a 19-year-old ballerina and have been doing ballet recreationally since I was 5. A couple of years ago I decided to take it more seriously and to train more hours. I have three questions and I [...]
March 5th
I am a 15 year old ballet student who hopes to pursue a career in dance. Right now I have an achilles tendon injury that requires passive healing, a lot of physical therapy and may take many months to heal. I have been off of dance for about 2 months now, and I’m having a [...]
October 25th
Last week during an over enthusiastic assemblé I managed to slip, flip into the air, and fall on my back. My doctor said I bruised a bone; my sacroiliac joint. It has been nearly 2 weeks, and I have been resting it. However, it still hurts to développé do the left side, left passe, and [...]
October 16th
Someone recommended I e-mail you, because we have been unable to get answers from doctors and physical therapists who know enough about ballet. My daughter, stepped on a pencil a year ago. She is 14 and loves ballet. The pencil graphite lodged deep in the bottom of her foot. She was operated on by a [...]
June 12th
The goal for conditioning is to prepare our bodies to do the unusual and unique movements that separates dance from pedestrian movement. There are three principles that need to be addressed in strength training for dancers in order to maximize your efforts. The three principles are overload, specificity and reversibility. We’ll start with the principle [...]
April 22nd
Announcement: Anneliese Burns Wilson has a great offer of a free download for a modern lesson. Check it out at http://www.abcfordance.com/product-p/imd.htm. She also has a free download to a ballet lesson. Anneliese is my co-author for the Functional Anatomy for Dancers series and is a fantastic resource for us all! Secondly – I have a [...]
January 25th
Announcements If you haven’t had a chance to listen to the mp3 file that was posted in the last newsletter, it’s still up. Secondly, I wanted to let you know about another wonderful dance website called Dance Advantage. (http://danceadvantage.net) It’s written by Nichelle Strzepek and is filled with valuable information. Check it out! (I’m hoping [...]
December 24th
Check back often for new questions! Thanks to all the people who wrote in with appreciation for the podcast. I loved reading all your kind words! I have a question about dancing while in pain. I hear such different opinions from different people. My daughter’s dance teachers will absolutely not let them dance if in [...]
May 30th
If you are interested in creating extra income for yourself, please check out last week’s newsletter to get the scoop on the affiliate program! Recitals are around the corner, please remember to take care of yourself! Onto the questions of the week: Hi. The top of my left ankle is continually painful, in an aching [...]
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