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One Mom's Musings About Boys in the Dance World

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

First Day at ABT Summer Intensive 2010

June 21, 2010 by Nina 9 Comments

The first day of the ABT Summer Ballet Intensive seemed a bit anticlimactic after last year. Julian walked very fast to get there; our walk is about five minutes longer this year (20 minutes). He was the third one in line…still the early bird arriving at about 7:30 a.m. when the kids are not allowed […]

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OMG! Tech Week after Tech Week and Finals, Too!

June 2, 2010 by Nina Leave a Comment

This is just a short post. Things are gearing up here…or have been in high gear. We are trying our best to get Julian to study every chance he gets, but those are few and far between. He had tech week last week for Alice in Wonderland. The show was fabulous! Oh, how cute he […]

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My Son's Adventures in Booty Shorts

January 29, 2009 by ninaamir 1 Comment

Okay, some of you may find this post doesn’t live up to its great title, but I just couldn’t resist after saying that’s what I would write about next! Anyway, here’s the dirt: Julian, much to his dismay, has to wear booty shorts for one of his pieces of choreography during the three performances his […]

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Filed Under: dance attire, dance scholarships, summer dance programs Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre summer dance intensive, booty shorts, booty shorts for male dancers, choices, dance belts, dance scholarships, summer camp, Teen Dance Company

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