32 blogs entered this year’s Top Dance Blog competition:
 Barre Boys |
 The Belated Ballerina |
 Relevé Your Life |
 Ballet Fan/Fitness Warrior |
 The Four-Eyed Ballerina |
 En Pointe with Houston Ballet |
 52 Weeks of Ballet |
 Kiner Enterprises Inc. Blog |
 Mike Barnes, Anthropologist (Ballet) |
 The Dance Buzz |
 BalletScoop by the ClassicalBalletTeacher |
 Dancers Global |
 Leotards and the Buns in Them |
 Dance Commentary by Heather Desaulniers |
 Born Again Dancer |
 The Body Series Blog |
 Contemporary Dancing by Melissa, Lover of Dance |
 My Son Can dance |
 Picture Books and Pirouettes |
 Tendus Under a Palm Tree |
 Dave Tries Ballet |
 Frame Dance Blog |
 Ballet Pages |
 Maria's Movers |
 Tutus and Tea |
 Ballet Shoes and Bobby Pins (by Sheena Jeffers) |
 Odette's Ordeal |
 Noa Blogs Ballet |
 Adult Beginner |
 Enforced Arch |
 Ballet To The People |
 Rogue Ballerina |
Some are returning from last year. Some very new (but very good) blogs are in the mix. All are worth a look!
Now that their readers have spoken, supporting each blog with nominations, it’s time to see which have made it to our finals round and CAST YOUR VOTES BELOW!
You may vote for only ONE blog in each category, including your #1 of our Top 20.
(tough choice, I know!)
Please look over the list carefully and choose the single blog you feel is your favorite of the 20.
In each category we chose the 3 blogs that received the most nominations. Now, it’s time to pick your favorites. You may cast your vote only ONCE in each of the six category polls below! Make sure you hit the Vote button when you’ve decided.
Special mention goes to the site flying solo in the Business Blog category: Kiner Enterprises Inc. You’ll find owner, Ashani Mfuko, blogging about social media marketing and advice for dance studio owners and professionals. She’s behind the #letstalkdance Twitter chats and The Kiner Hour, a weekly live show, streaming online.
Since the holidays are such a busy time, I’ve decided to give readers a bit more time than initially planned to cast their votes…
The polls will close at NOON on January 4, 2012.
Thank you for voting!
Dance Advantage would like to thank all of the participants and YOU the readers!
We are thrilled to once again be hosting this event. We hope you found some new blogs to follow in the process.
What do you think about the Top Dance Blog contest?
Share it in the comments!
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Who else noticed:
32 blogs entered the contest…32 DANCE blogs…32 fouettes…32 is a pretty significant number in ballet…
I am definitely LOVING the cool coincidence!!
Thank Nichelle, for hosting this absolutely awesome contest! I am honored to be mentioned, let alone one of the Top 20!
I love this contest because it introduces me to so many wonderful new blogs and artists. I checked out a lot of the “contestants,” not just my “favorites” that I know and love, and found many new blogs, individuals and artists to follow on twitter and even to vote for! Great job raising awareness!
Thanks for the special mention/shout-out Nichelle! I don’t mind flying solo!! lol I love this contest because it helps all of us recognize the wonderful work that so many dancers are doing through blogs! I love meeting new people, and discovering new blogs to read and share! Thanks for creating this wonderful contest!
I find this “contest” quite intriguing and am amazed at the number of individuals passionate enough about dance to share their thoughts on the Web.
I started out with typewriter or pen, an envelope and postage stamps, tardily
adding the FAX machine when it became common. What a technological leap!
You are to be commended to provide the forum by which the sites are identified.
The fact you produce it with raising two children is quite awesome, and speaks
a lot to your organizational skills.
Am I correct in assuming that by “dance blogs” you are not limiting entries to
blogs focusing primarily on ballet?
Now that I know about you I will check in from time to time.
Incidentally, you now have at Houston Ballet one of the more memorable
recent dancers from the San Francisco area. Tina Kay Bodhnstedt danced
with Diablo for over a decade and started choreographing, a simply unforgettable, intelligent ballerina.
Hello, Renee. Thanks for visiting! I am amazed and encouraged every day by that very thing.
Entries are definitely not limited to ballet, though I think it’s fair to say that there are probably more bloggers writing about ballet than other concert dance forms. The contest, however, isn’t even limited to concert forms but, because Dance Advantage focuses in that direction, and because the contest is still new, we have yet to draw many contestants beyond that corner of the dance world.
Please do check in when you can. To keep tabs you can subscribe via RSS or to our email newsletter. Or find Dance Advantage on Facebook or Twitter.
Thanks again for stopping by and commenting!
Hi Michelle! Is it too late to vote? Did you mean 12 EST?
Damn, we were off to Disneyland for a couple of days and I missed the deadline
Sorry !