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Interview with Duncan Cooper (Part 3): Develop the Ability to Move with Emotion and Be Inspired by Dance

May 14, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Amidst the hustle and bustle of tecnical rehearsals for Los Gatos Ballet’s Copellia and last-week-before-techical-rehearsals for Teen Dance Company’s 10th Anniversary Spring Concert, not to mention my daugther’s regional synchronized swimming meet in Sacramento this weekend (and my work), I’ve finally managed to finish transcribing the tape of my interview with Duncan Cooper. As promised, […]

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Filed Under: Attitude, conventions, Duncan Cooper, Interviews with Dancers Tagged With: dancing with emotion, Duncan Cooper, inspiration, inspiring dancers

Strong Sense of Self Helps Boys Dance Well

March 19, 2009 by ninaamir 2 Comments

Julian and I had a conversation yesterday about the post I had just written about developmental stages and how they affect dancers.  (He was adamant that I should be writing about him, by the way…) I told him about the girls and boys I most watched at the convention and how I thought their dancing […]

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Filed Under: Attitude, Changes due to puberty, Uncategorized Tagged With: confidence and dance, developmental stages and dance ability, finding yourself as a dancer, self-esteem and dance performance

Conventions and Sore Ankles

February 16, 2009 by ninaamir 6 Comments

This past weekend Julian and the rest of the Teen Dance Company dancers went to the Nuvo dance convention. Julian had a blast hanging with his buddies from TDC and seeing some old friends from other studios. He also saw some friends from school or from the Nutcracker performance he was in last December.  Additionally, […]

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Filed Under: Attitude, conventions, foot problems, So Your Think You can Dance Tagged With: conventions, dance competitions, dance injury, dancers with big egos, dancers with big heads, Nuvo, So You Think You Can Dance, Travis Wall

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