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One Mom's Musings About Boys in the Dance World

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

My Dancin’ Boy Tests His Wings

June 30, 2012 by Nina 3 Comments

How do dancing boys test their wings?

The School of American Ballet is over, and Julian has finished classes at The Professional Performing Arts School (and graduated, as far as I know). Whoo hoo! It won’t be long before he takes off for Germany–under 2 months. The end of all of this was a bit anticlimactic, to say the least. Once Workshop […]

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Filed Under: foot problems, recovery from dance injury Tagged With: SAB, School of American Ballet, Steps on Broadway, travel

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

Billys, Billys Everywhere

April 20, 2010 by ninaamir 1 Comment

Early in March, when the curtain went up on the hit Broadway musical every dancin’ boy knows and loves–Billy Elliot–audiences were met with a new set of Billys. As we all know, eight times a week a Billy has to take the stage. That means some  young male dancer has to dance and sing as […]

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Filed Under: Billy Elliot, performances Tagged With: Billy, Billy Elliot, cast

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

More Opportunties My Dancing Son Can't Take Advantage Of…

February 6, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Okay, the Teen Dance Company Second Stage performance has been put to bed, quite successfully I might add. I was quite impressed, if I do say so myself, with all the kids’ performances and with the student choreography in particular. I think it is amazing that the studio offers a student choreography track, and it’s […]

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Filed Under: dance injuries, grades, performances, summer dance programs Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre, Copellia, Los Gatos Ballet, Studio 10, Teen Dance Company Second Stage, writing for dance magazines

What's a Mom to Do When Her Dancin' Boy Doesn't Think?

April 21, 2008 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

I pulled up at my son’s school on Friday to pick him up and take him to dance just in time to see him jump up onto a fence with his right foot and land back on the ground with — your guessed it — his hurt left foot. I was livid. I wouldn’t talk […]

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Filed Under: barre work, recovery from dance injury, use of muscles in ballet

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