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Stretching Safely for Splits
Can you do “the splits?” Image via Wikipedia Splits are a topic on most young dancers’ minds. I know when I was a student the ability to sit in a split seemed pretty important. Of course, flexibility and range of motion are certainly fundamental elements in dance. However, when it comes to stret

Listening to Dance — An Exercise in Viewing Art
Image by jasoneppink via Flickr I’d like to have you try a short exercise. Look over the questions/suggestions below: Do any images or pictures come to your mind? What are they? Does the song cause remembrances of something, someone, or somewhere? If so, what? In what environment, if any, does the music

Streamlining Competition Registration with DanceSignUp.com
Image via Wikipedia Twitter is a great way to discover emerging websites, services, and businesses within the dance world. It was on Twitter that I first encountered DanceSignUp

Trick or Treat Tracks for Halloween
Image via Wikipedia I love holidays in the dance studio and Halloween can be especially fun. Below is a list of songs and albums that may inspire you to get a little ghoulish in your classe

Lifting Your Leg From Underneath and Other Impossible Feats
In a recent article on the iliopsoas muscles, I skirted discussion of the perpetuated myth that dancers can lift their legs “from underneath” or use their hamstrings to raise the leg in battement. Synchronously, a related question appeared on the Dance Advantage Interactive