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How to Prepare for a Summer Ballet Intensive: Rasta Thomas Offers Advice (Part 1)

June 5, 2009 by ninaamir 7 Comments

At long, long last, I have some really superb advice for all the boys attending summer ballet intensives. Actually, any boy attending any type of summer dance intensive will benefit from the advice offered by ballet great Rasta Thomas.   I first “discovered” Rasta after I’d actually seen him perform as Eddie in the national tour of  the […]

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Coming Soon! Rasta Thomas on How Boys Can Prepare for Summer Ballet Intensives

June 3, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Yes…after much ado and a lot of requests, today Rasta Thomas called me and gave me a 30-minute interview on the subject of how boys can prepare for a summer ballet intensive. I had written to him several weeks ago, but he hadn’t yet responded; he and I have spoken before, because I interviewed him […]

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Tips from Finis Jhung for Boys Attending Summer Ballet Intensives

June 1, 2009 by ninaamir 1 Comment

I’m still trying to get a really great post from someone on how to get in shape for a summer ballet intensive – little late for Julian, who will have completed his first day at the American Ballet Theatre summer intensive by this time two weeks from now. In the meantime, however, I did get […]

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Strengthen a Boy's (or a Girl's) Feet for Summer Dance Intensives

May 22, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Since I have yet to find an expert to write a post  on how to prepare for a summer intensive like the one Julian will be attending at American Ballet Theatre this summer, I thought I’d share the information I gathered when researching two articles for Dance Teacher magazine on keeping dancers’ feet healthy. Some of […]

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Does Your Son Tap? Keep His Feet Healthy!

April 22, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

I recently wrote an article for Dance Teacher magazine on how to keep tappers’ feet healthy. Previously, I wrote an article for them on how to keep dancers’ feet healthy, but tappers are a bit unique; they use their feet in more ways than most dancers, and their feet take a lot more pounding as […]

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