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Televised arts programming received a blow when Time Warner Cable dropped Ovation. Not cool. What is cool? The new quarter of content 4dancers and Dance Advantage have coming your way!

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Nichelle offers a personal reflection on the holidays, the events that shape us, and miracles as she wishes readers a very happy and peaceful holiday season.

Dancer Speak: Re-Thinking How We Talk About Dance

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When it comes to talking about dance, there are plenty of possibilities. Sometimes using “real-life” synonyms to the “dancer speak” that we are accustomed to allows kids to see how big ideas relate from discipline to discipline. Dance in the public schools provides an outlet for kids to express themselves but also a way to [...]

Happy Holidays From Dance Advantage!

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From Nichelle and all of the writers and contributors at Dance Advantage, we wish you a joyous and safe holiday season. May it be filled with dancing!

Sneak Peek at the New Dance Advantage E-course

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For the first time, Dance Advantage is releasing premium material for those who want to unlock new doors in their dance training. For 40 weeks, receive an email with 4 components giving you something to DO, LEARN, THINK about, and INSPIRE you in your classes. 4 for 40 is designed for students who want to be better, smarter, stronger dancers and dance students by the end of the dance year.

Nichelle Discusses DA, Musical Theatre, and Performing

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Every once in a while, Nichelle is on the other side of the questions, as in this recent interview with Nicole LaBlonde. Also featured are two previous interviews, one on blogging the other on beauty. Also see what Nichelle did last weekend!

Congratulations to the Top Dance Blogs of 2010!

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It was a fierce competition in many of the Top Dance Blog categories! The closest race by far was in our Dance News and Criticism group with loveDancemore and Rogue Ballerina separated by only 1% of the votes. However it seemed until the end that it was just about anyone’s game in all of the groups. Here are your winners!

Season’s Greetings from Dance Advantage

The Sunday Snapshot for the day is a greeting from Nichelle’s family to yours. May your days be merry and bright.

Will Your Site Be A Top Dance Blog of 2010?

Top Dance Blogs of 2010

Engage your readers and find out why they love you. This is valuable to blog owners no matter your readership or chances to be a Top Dance Blog. Even if you don’t qualify for the top ten or twenty, you’ll enter 2011 with encouragement to keep blogging!

Giving Thanks Giveaway 2010: And… curtain!

Dance Advantage Giving Thanks Giveaway: Nov 8 - 13, 2010

After collecting and organizing the entries for each of the twelve drawings, I contact the winners. If you are one of the randomly selected winners, I will use the email address you provided to notify you. I am not responsible for mistyped address or mistakes on your part. You will have 48 hours from the time it is sent to respond to this e-mail.

Water Isn’t Everywhere: My Birthday Present

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Imagine if you or your children couldn’t go to school or work because you had to walk each day to gather water and doing so meant you might stand in line for hours waiting to carry a 40 pound canister on your back for the return trip. And not clean water, either. Swamp water or a muddy hole or a puddle on the ground (one that you share with cows and other animals).

Sponsor Our November “Giving Thanks” Giveaway

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Dance Advantage wants to give thanks to its readers in November with a week of giveaways. We are looking for dance-related companies to sponsor SIX DAYS (a cornucopia) worth of goodies to be given away here on the site.

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