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December 13th

Guided Visualizations

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With the holiday countdown, Nutcracker performances, increased social engagements – stress levels can easily increase.  Dancers and dance teachers need recovery time and ways they can train (or retrain) their bodies into more efficient patterns. I created a mp3 file of guided imagery for my students.  As I talk about in the Inner Dance of [...]

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October 12th

A Somatic Perspective on Ballet

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I’ve returned from TCU where I annually teach an intensive course for their freshman dance majors.  What a pleasure it is – (and what an amazing new facility they have after massive renovations last year!)  My good friend, Elizabeth Gillaspy is a professor of ballet at TCU consented to sit down and allow me to [...]

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