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How Releasology Can Keep Your Dancin’ Boy Dancin’

July 13, 2013 by Nina 4 Comments

Keep your dancer healthy by releasing tight muscles.

Keeping your dancin’ boy dancin’ isn’t always easy, especially as he gets older. The older he gets, the more he likely will dance, especially if he is in a studio with few boys, which is pretty typical. Overuse injuries, tendonitis, shin splints, growing pains, sprains, strains, and any number of other ailments can plague your […]

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Filed Under: dance injuries, Dancer's Health, recovery from dance injury Tagged With: dance injuries, healing tendonitis, muscle spasm, Releasology, tight muscles

High School Graduation and SAB Workshop Approaching

March 31, 2012 by Nina 7 Comments

The end of the year is fast approaching. When it comes to dance, everything seems to be moving along well for Julian. His foot seems to have healed up, although I’m not there to speak to anyone. The physical therapist says after spring break he need only come back once a week, and he has […]

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Filed Under: Attitude, auditions, Ballet, College, college dance programs, dance injuries, foot problems, grades, Raising a Male Dancer Tagged With: grades, graduation, school work, Workshop

Summer Intensive Auditions End, REAL Auditions Start

March 6, 2012 by Nina 2 Comments

A lot has happened since my last post…I’ve just been too busy to write. I apologize. I’ve got a non-dance related book coming out in a few months, and getting ready for that launch has been taking up all my time. Anyhoo. Since I wrote last Julian has been struggling with his tendon tear. He […]

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Filed Under: auditions, choreography, College, dance injuries, foot problems, grades, performance, professional dance, recovery from dance injury, summer dance programs Tagged With: college dance auditions, company auditions, summer ballet intensives, tendon injury, Workshop

How We (Almost) Cured Tendonitis in a Dancin’ Boy’s Feet

December 30, 2011 by Nina 7 Comments

Julian showed up at home for the winter holiday break with a serious enough case of tendonitis in his feet that he hadn’t danced in two weeks. (He said that was the longest break he’d had from dance in about three years, by the way.)  The School of American Ballet (SAB) sent him to see […]

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Filed Under: dance injuries, foot problems, How to Solve Dance Problems Tagged With: curing tendonitis, dance injuries, tendonitis, tendonitis in the feet

Rupert Pennefather on Being a Dancer

September 17, 2011 by Nina 1 Comment

I do have news of Julian and how he is doing at SAB, but I thought I’d change things up a bit today. While I was in New York City I was contacted by email and offered the chance to air an “exclusive” video of Royal Ballet principle Rupert Pennefather speaking about some of the […]

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Filed Under: Attitude, Ballet, dance injuries, Interviews with Dancers, male dancers, Partnering, performance, professional dance, teasing Tagged With: competition, Partnering, performing, Rupert Pennefarther

Dealing with Muscle Issues

April 1, 2011 by Nina Leave a Comment

Julian’s had a variety of muscle issues recently. I think they began from a misalignment in his back, but what do I know? I’m just his mother. In fact, he ended up sitting out part of a class or rehearsal…can’t quite remember now…after doing some jumps and then having his tailbone area hurt. Between school, […]

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Fear of Injury Setting In

July 22, 2010 by Nina 1 Comment

Despite my focus on positive thinking and strong belief that our thoughts are creative, I’ve found myself falling into a fear of Julian injuring himself. After all, he’s doing more than he did last year and I’m confronted with dancers getting injured. You need only watch Fox’s 2010So You Think You Can Dance to see […]

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Filed Under: dance injuries, So Your Think You can Dance, summer dance programs Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre summer dance intensive, Complexions Summer Intensive, dance injuries, Desmond Richardson, Dwight Rhoden

Keeping Your Dancer Healthy During Intense Periods of Activity

May 9, 2010 by ninaamir 2 Comments

With the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive fast approaching, I’ve begun thinking about how to keep Julian healthy for seven weeks. We stay in the city for an extra week so he can dance at the great studios there for another six or seven days after the intensive ends. So, I thought I’d posts information […]

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Filed Under: dance injuries, Health and Nutrition, illness Tagged With: health, herbs, illness, immune system, Usana, vitamins

Three Days and Counting Until the End of the ABT Summer Intensive

July 21, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

The American Ballet Theatre summer intensive is winding to a close. The kids are rehearsing their numbers and getting ready to go up to LaGuardia High School, New York’s performing high school — the one the movie “Fame” was based upon — for a run through tomorrow. That’s where their final performance will be held […]

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Filed Under: dance injuries, foot problems, summer dance programs, tap Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, dancing in New York City, final performance, New York City dance studios

ABT Summer Intensive Half Over: Feeling Good and Wishing for More Time

July 6, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Last week went off without a hitch — yes, even without Mom around to make sure Julian remained healthy. Of course, he was with a mom who makes sure her son goes to bed early and eats well and takes all his vitamins and supplements and such, so I knew Julian was in good hands. […]

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Two weeks down, four to go…

June 27, 2009 by ninaamir 2 Comments

Julian is sad that the weeks are flying by. He’s completed two weeks already and has just four to go. However, they are definitely taking their toll on him. I’d recommend that everyone – girls and boys alike – really get in shape for a summer intensive like the American Ballet Theatre six-weeks in New […]

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Filed Under: dance injuries, foot problems, illness, recovery from dance injury, summer dance programs Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, dancing in humid climates, hurt heels in dance, injuries due to pronation, pronation, summer dance intensives

ABT Summer Intensive Takes Its Toll on My Boy

June 24, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Okay, well, I guess the New York Times article I read about the boy who went to the American Ballet Theatre summer intensive and suffered from shin splints and such painted a correct picture…or we’ve just hit some bad luck and made some bad choices. Julian is a week and a half into the ABT […]

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Filed Under: dance injuries, foot problems, illness, summer dance programs, Uncategorized Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, Billy Elliot, David Alvarez, foot problems, heat stroke, In the Heights, Lion King, upset stomach

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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Filed Under: Dance Exercises and Stretches, dance injuries, foot problems, tap Tagged With: avoiding injury in tap dancers, creating a cushion on tappers feet, doming, healthy dancers feet, healthy feet, impact on feet during tap, stretching, tap

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