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One Mom's Musings About Boys in the Dance World

New School Year, New Focus, New Dance Program

September 4, 2010 by Nina Leave a Comment

I didn’t realize I’d let so much time pass since my last post. Time flies when you’re having fun…not. Julian and I got back from New York, and I entered into a harried three and a half weeks of getting him to the TDC summer intensive, preparing for my daughter’s 18th birthday party and to […]

Filed Under: auditions, Ballet, dance scholarships, technique

Back Home in Time for TDC Intensive and an Award

August 13, 2010 by Nina 1 Comment

We arrived back home in N. CA to freezing weather…well, at least that’s what it feels like after seven and a half weeks of beastly heat. Here in the mountains where we live, it’s about 55 degrees each morning due to the coastal fog. It might hit 78 in Los Gatos during the day, but […]

Filed Under: auditions, summer dance programs, technique Tagged With: auditions, awards, ballt technique, pulled abdominal muscles, summer dance intensive

How to Inspire Your Son to Dance

December 1, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

If you want to inspire your son to dance, take him to see other men dance. In particular, take him to see really great men dancing like real men. We drove two and a half hours on Friday night to see Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance perform in Santa Rosa, CA. We ‘ve been […]

Filed Under: Ballet, Doing "boy stuff", rasta thomas, technique Tagged With: Adrienne Canterna-Thomas, Bad Boys of Dance, Ballet, flexiblity, inspiration, Joyce Theatre, Kameron Bink, rasta thomas, role models, technique

Finally Found: Ballet Tights that Fit a Teenage Boy!

May 4, 2009 by ninaamir 4 Comments

As a short breather to the Duncan Cooper series (and since I don’t have time right now to post another piece to that interview), I’d like to share that Julian has finally found some ballet tights that fit and that he loves. He says he can’t even tell he’s wearing them! So, I want to […]

Filed Under: dance attire, evaluations, foot problems, technique

Is Competition Good for Technique?

November 10, 2008 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

I’d like to write a short post based on a comment by Nichelle Strzepek at http://danceadvantage.net.   She read my last post on making boys dance slowly to learn the basics, and said the following: “I have found it particularly difficult to impress the importance of learning to do things correctly with competitive dancers (again, my […]

Filed Under: competitions, performance, technique Tagged With: competitions, performing, technique

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