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TDC Spring Concert and Summer Intentsive Fast Approaching

May 23, 2010 by Nina 1 Comment

Okay, this is a blatant advertisement for the TDC Spring Concert and summer intensive, if you live in the Northern California area. Attending the show offers a great way to see what the program is about and to see the level of dance and dancer at TDC. Plus, by attending you support a superb nonprofit […]

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Filed Under: auditions, performance, summer dance programs Tagged With: performance, Spring Concert, summer intensive, TDC, Teen Dance Company

The Nutrition Needs of Serious Dancers: How to Stay Healthy, Strong and in Peak Performance Shape (Part 1)

May 13, 2010 by ninaamir 2 Comments

When I first considered giving Julian high-quality vitamins in an effort to keep him healthy, I really didn’t think about the fact that the amount of dancing he did each week could be contributing to his health. Normally we think exercise makes our children healthy. However, too much exercise without the right nutrition can actually […]

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Filed Under: Health and Nutrition, illness, performance Tagged With: aerobics, antioxidants, cellular nutrition, Dr. Karen Wolfe, exercise, fish oils, fitness, free radicals, Glucosamine, health, immune system, micronutrients, Overtraining Syndrome, Usana, vitamins

Whoo Hoo! Julian's Into ABT and We're Off to NYC Again!

February 2, 2010 by ninaamir 4 Comments

Just a short note to say that Julian received notification late last week that he had been accepted again into the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive Program in New York City. Whoo hoo! However, we were a bit upset at first to see that he had not been awarded a scholarship. Last year he received […]

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Filed Under: auditions, Ballet, dance scholarships, performance, summer dance programs Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, lifts, Partnering, performance, scholarship, Second Stage

Tech Week and ABT Summer Intensive Auditions this Week

January 25, 2010 by ninaamir 2 Comments

Seems like we just got back from New York City, but Julian and his Dad went off to San Francisco today for his American Ballet Theatre summer intensive audition. I think he was a bit less nervous this year, but, of course, this year everything is riding on it. Last year, he did it on […]

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Filed Under: auditions, choreography, dance scholarships, performance, summer dance programs Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, auditions, clothing, dance belts, performance, student choreography, Teen Dance Company, Teen Dance Company Second Stage

On to YAGP and 2nd Stage…

December 13, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Nutcracker’s over for another year. Julian did a great job. He looked quite regal in red and white, and his partnering was commendable. The production, overall, was superb. Now we are on to Youth American Grand Prix rehearsals. We started rehearsing earlier this fall, but the kids took time off during the last weeks of […]

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Filed Under: competitions, grades, Nutcracker, performance Tagged With: dance performance, Nutcracker, Second Stage, TDC, YAGP, Youth American Grand Prix

My Jewish Son Opens as the Prince in the Nutcracker Tomorrow!

December 4, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Oy! My nice Jewish boy appears tomorrow on the big stage–the San Jose Center for Performing Arts–as the one and only prince in the classic Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker. Well…we are not so religious to care really, but it makes for a good joke anyway! And yes,tomorrow evening is the opening show of San Jose […]

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Filed Under: Ballet, Nutcracker, performance Tagged With: Nutcracker, Ramon Moreno, San Jose Dance Theater, white tights

ABT Summer Intensive Ends with Awesome Performance

July 24, 2009 by ninaamir 2 Comments

The six weeks of American Ballet Theatre’s summer intensive ended with a bang! The final performance was awesome with the advanced students, in particular, offering up some really amazing and pretty professional-looking dancing. In particular, the violet level choreographed one number themselves (with the help of their instructor), and it was a stand out by far! […]

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Filed Under: Ballet, performance, summer dance programs Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, final performance, home schooling, male dancers, ostracized, performing arts schools, summer dance program, teasing

Gearing Up For End-of-the-Year Concert

May 22, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

This is it! The end-of-the-year concert happens this weekend. Julian finished up Los Gatos Ballet’s Copellia last weekend only to start right in on technical rehearsals for Teen Dance Company’s 10th anniversary concert on Monday. Here it is Friday already, and he’s been at the Mexican Heritage Theatre in San Jose since 4 p.m. (it’s […]

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Filed Under: performance, summer dance programs, Uncategorized Tagged With: costumes, end of year performances, getting in shape for summer ballet programs, technical rehearsals, Teen Dance Company 10th Anniversary Concert

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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Filed Under: auditions, How to Solve Dance Problems, performance Tagged With: Billy Elliot, combining thought and feeling, Stephen Hanna, tools for achieving dance goals, visualization, visualization and dance, visualization and sports, visualization as tool for achieving dance goals

Do Development Stages Affect Boys' Dance Ability?

March 17, 2009 by ninaamir 2 Comments

We’re back from The Pulse. Julian is tired, happy to have danced with some great choreographers and to have learned some cool choreography, and a bit disappointed not to have won a scholarship of any sort. I know…I know. The scholarship isn’t important. Tell that to Julian. He had several choreographers talk to him and tell him he was […]

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Filed Under: auditions, Changes due to puberty, conventions, dance scholarships, performance Tagged With: Brian Friedman, convention choreography, dance auditions, dance conventions, dance with confidence, dance with spirit, developmental stages and dance ability, getting noticed at conventions, individuality in dancers, Laurieann, scholarships at conventions, The Pulse, Tyce Diorio, Wade Robson

Preparing for Going Solo Performance and Copellia

March 11, 2009 by ninaamir 2 Comments

Things are gearing up again. Julian has been practicing an old routine of his from a few years ago called “Hats” for solo studio performance on Thursday. We didn’t realize that he could actually perform in this event, so he didn’t prepare a solo. (We’ll know for next year.) So, he pulled out his very-successful […]

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Filed Under: conventions, dance scholarships, grades, performance, sexuality, So Your Think You can Dance Tagged With: Aristan Rinpoyla, Copellia, Going Solo, Mia Michaels, Nuvo, Remind, The Pulse

Be Billy (Elliot) and Get Fired!

December 22, 2008 by ninaamir 8 Comments

I read an article in the latest issue of Mvmnt Magazine about the current cast of Billy Elliot, the Musical. (The article I wrote on Criss Angel’s Believe, which Wade Robson choreographed, is on the cover of this issue.) It seems that one, as yet unnamed “Billy” is due to get fired already, and the show […]

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Filed Under: Changes due to puberty, performance Tagged With: age and performance ability, Billy Elliot, how puberty affects performance

Looking Forward to Nutcracker 2009 as the Curtain Comes down on the 2008 Production

December 12, 2008 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

The Nutcracker production put on by San Jose Dance Theater, which featured my son, Julian, as both Fritz and one of the two Russian dancers, has closed its curtains until next year. Yes, while others gear up, we’ve cleared the stage for the next production, put on by Ballet San Jose’s professional company (sorry friends, […]

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Filed Under: Nutcracker, Partnering, performance Tagged With: Chris Bonomo, learning to partner, Los Gatos Ballet, Mark Foehringer Dance Project, Nutcracker, Nutcracker experiences, San Jose Dance Theater, Sarah Spradlin-Bonomo

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