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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

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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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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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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