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Teaching Tip: Sticky Tendus
I got this visual teaching tip from watching my ballet teacher’s preschool and Ballet 1 classes. Her class was practicing tendu and the students had very slow and articulate feet during their parallel...
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April Blog Challenge: Dance Imagery
“Flip the pancake!” my ballet teacher used to say as we did our fouettes (jumps not turns). “Pretend your pelvis is a bowl of soup… don’t spill the soup!” was another one of her favorite metaphors....
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Dance Imagery, Illustrated
Finally got around to posting this for the April Challenge – favorite Dance Imagery! I was reading Moira’s response to the challenge about Irish Dance imagery (or lack thereof) and realized that all of...
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Pumpkin Creative Movement
I read Maria’s great pumpkin patch creative movement idea and was inspired to try it in my classes this past week! And check out this post at Maria’s Movers for even more ideas. I teach two ages of...
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Shhhhh… *spritz spritz*
“Quiet Spray” – found at The Lemonade Stand blog. As they suggest: “…spray the ROOM to signal children to get quiet. Or you can just leave the bottle empty. Mine love the mist in the air….I do not...
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