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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

Visualizing the Dancer You Want to Become

April 1, 2009 by ninaamir 1 Comment

I was reading a post at BoysBallet.wordpress.com, called Being Billy Elliot that is from a story written by Nancy Stetson for the Florida Weekly that talks,  about ballet dancer Stephen Hanna’s role in the Broadway musical Billy Elliot. Hanna plays the grown up “Billy.” The article describes a scene in which Billy is imagining himself as […]

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Flower Buds and Turn Out – For Boys Who Dance, Too

October 6, 2008 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

The editor at Dance Teacher magazine cut lots of information from my article on Denise Wall for lots of reasons – mostly because of space, especially after she asked for more information on Danny Tidwell – and I had to cut an immense amount of information simply to meet her word-count requirements. However, I wanted […]

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