Archive for April, 2009

April 22nd

Flat spine and back pain

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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 [...]

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April 21st

Different sizes of pointe shoes

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A dancer has asked me for help with her pointe shoes. One foot is much smaller than the other and she had been stuffing extra padding into the bigger shoe, but this caused her a lot of pain and lots of problems on pointe. She has found out that one foot is actually 1/2 size [...]

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