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Three Days Until Take Off and Counting…

June 12, 2010 by Nina Leave a Comment

All performances have been completed, finals have been taken, graduation is (almost) over, and suitcases are being purchased as I write. In three and a half days we take off for New York City and Julian’s second American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive. I am nowhere near as ready! Julian’s TDC performance was phenomenal! I am […]

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Filed Under: foot problems, performance, summer dance programs Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, dance injuries, foot injuries, performance

Tips on Surviving the ABT Summer Intensive

March 1, 2010 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

I’d like to direct you to a guest post I wrote for DanceAdvantage.com that offers numerous tips on how to survive the ABT Summer Intensive. However, the advice pertains to anyone attending a summer ballet intensive in New York City. Please go to the site and read the article. And check out DanceAdvantage while you’re […]

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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

What I Learned from the ABT Summer Intensive Experience

September 10, 2009 by ninaamir 2 Comments

For all the mother’s and father’s out there considering the pros and cons of sending their kids off to a summer intensive or of chaperoning them during the American Ballet Theatre summer intensive in New York City, this mother offers up the lessons she learned while chaperoning her son for seven weeks in New York this past summer while he danced.

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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

Three Days and Counting Until the End of the ABT Summer Intensive

July 21, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

The American Ballet Theatre summer intensive is winding to a close. The kids are rehearsing their numbers and getting ready to go up to LaGuardia High School, New York’s performing high school — the one the movie “Fame” was based upon — for a run through tomorrow. That’s where their final performance will be held […]

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Filed Under: dance injuries, foot problems, summer dance programs, tap Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, dancing in New York City, final performance, New York City dance studios

Week 5 of ABT Summer Intensive: Winding Down

July 16, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

OMG! We have less than a week and a half less until the American Ballet  Theatre’s summer intensive ends! Hard to believe…Julian is still having a blast, but I’m a bit homesick at this point, stressed about work and wishing we weren’t staying for an extra week. We are just doing way too much. At […]

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Filed Under: rasta thomas, summer dance programs, tap, Uncategorized Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, Anthony LoCascio, Cody Green, Danny Tidwell, Denise Wall, Jamie Goodwin, jason samuels smith, NYCDA, rasta thomas, West Side Story

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

ABT Summer Intensive Takes Its Toll on My Boy

June 24, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Okay, well, I guess the New York Times article I read about the boy who went to the American Ballet Theatre summer intensive and suffered from shin splints and such painted a correct picture…or we’ve just hit some bad luck and made some bad choices. Julian is a week and a half into the ABT […]

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How to Prepare for a Summer Ballet Intensive: Rasta Thomas Offers Advice (Part 1)

June 5, 2009 by ninaamir 7 Comments

At long, long last, I have some really superb advice for all the boys attending summer ballet intensives. Actually, any boy attending any type of summer dance intensive will benefit from the advice offered by ballet great Rasta Thomas.   I first “discovered” Rasta after I’d actually seen him perform as Eddie in the national tour of  the […]

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Filed Under: Dance Exercises and Stretches, Interviews with Dancers, Partnering, rasta thomas, summer dance programs Tagged With: American Ballet Theatre, American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, dance exercises, rasta thomas, San Francisco Ballet Summer Intensive, summer ballet intensives

Coming Soon! Rasta Thomas on How Boys Can Prepare for Summer Ballet Intensives

June 3, 2009 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

Yes…after much ado and a lot of requests, today Rasta Thomas called me and gave me a 30-minute interview on the subject of how boys can prepare for a summer ballet intensive. I had written to him several weeks ago, but he hadn’t yet responded; he and I have spoken before, because I interviewed him […]

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Tips from Finis Jhung for Boys Attending Summer Ballet Intensives

June 1, 2009 by ninaamir 1 Comment

I’m still trying to get a really great post from someone on how to get in shape for a summer ballet intensive – little late for Julian, who will have completed his first day at the American Ballet Theatre summer intensive by this time two weeks from now. In the meantime, however, I did get […]

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