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How to Let Your Dancing Son Spread His Wings—Alone

December 5, 2016 by Nina 1 Comment

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Today’s guest post is written by another dancin’ mom, Lindsay Clinton. She writes about finding the courage to let her dancin’ boy out from under her wing so he could fly toward his dreams. The blast occurred at 8:30 a few blocks from Charlie’s New York City home. He immediately responded to my text, “I’m […]

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Filed Under: Parental Role, professional dance Tagged With: boys who dance, dance, male ballet dancers, parents of dancers, pre-pro dance programs, professional dance, safety

Oh, How they Grow Up

August 26, 2013 by Nina 1 Comment

Julian returned in mid July from Dresden, Germany, for the first time in a year. He was on his summer break—one month off—from Semperoper Ballett. During that time he transitioned from apprentice to a member of the corps de ballet. He returned to California not only as a 19-year-old with a ballet contract he had […]

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Filed Under: College, Parental Role Tagged With: apprenticeship programs, dance in Europe, growing up, letting go

Why You Must Become Your Dancin’ Son’s Manager

February 24, 2013 by Nina 10 Comments

My last blog post about when to send your son to a summer dance intensive generated a bit of off-blog discussion from parents too afraid to comment on the blog. Too intimidated by their studio directors or ballet masters, they didn’t want their names right there in the blog comments as they told me stories […]

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Filed Under: Parental Role Tagged With: changing dance studios, Dealing with studio owners, managing a dance career, summer dance intensives

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