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One Mom's Musings About Boys in the Dance World

When to Get Your Dancing’ Boy “Seen”

January 7, 2015 by Nina 2 Comments

when to have your dancing boy seen

Your son has been dancing at the same studio for some time now, and he’s doing great. However, you’re wondering when he should venture out to dance conventions, intensives, and competitions—or maybe even to the occasional private lesson or class at some other studio. We tried to get Julian “seen” by other dance professionals as […]

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Filed Under: competitions, conventions, summer dance programs Tagged With: competitions, intensives, private lessons, residential programs

Be Careful What You Ask For…

November 14, 2008 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

First, let me comment on the comment from last post concerning competition. This is a hot topic. Competitions have so much going for them, and so much going against them. I want to say one thing: They shouldn’t be about how many rhinestones are on the costume. They should be about technique and performance. Period. […]

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Is Competition Good for Technique?

November 10, 2008 by ninaamir Leave a Comment

I’d like to write a short post based on a comment by Nichelle Strzepek at http://danceadvantage.net.   She read my last post on making boys dance slowly to learn the basics, and said the following: “I have found it particularly difficult to impress the importance of learning to do things correctly with competitive dancers (again, my […]

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