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Achieving Your Dance Goals

December 14, 2018 by Guest Contributors Leave a Comment

A notebook with a checklist

What are your dance goals this year? How would you like to improve? Take time to make a plan and turn your plan into action the S.M.A.R.T way.

Filed Under: Blog, Dancing, Featured Tagged With: dance goals, dance journal, dance notebook, goal journal, goals, how to keep a dance journal, new year, practice notebook, resolutions, SMART goals, writing down goals

11 Ways To Create A Positive Atmosphere In Your Dance Classes

August 31, 2011 by Guest Contributors

IMAGE A belly dancer poses with arms above her head, a confident smile on her face. IMAGE

Words of encouragement and a positive atmosphere helps students think more positively about themselves. Our guest writer offers some suggestions to help instructors foster a healthy self-esteem in their students. Plus there’s lots more related reading linked in the text so that you can start your new dance season on a positive note.

Filed Under: Blog, Teaching Tagged With: accomplishments, back of the class, belly dance, best dancers up front, Body image, celebrate successes, challenges, comparing yourself, competition, compliments, constructive criticism, criticism, encouraging, expectations, favorite dancers, giving criticism, goals, healthy attitude, positive atmosphere, positive attitude, praise, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-image, self-talk, star dancers, strengths and weaknesses, teacher tips, think positive

Celebrating Successes With A Dance Journal

July 26, 2011 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

Dance teacher, Nants Foley created a special 70-page book for her students. Called A Dancer’s Steps it includes space for recording class work and progress as well as content like checklists, quotes, ballet vocabulary, foot care, and more. She has published the journal and workbook, making them available beyond her own dance school so we talk with Nants about the book and how she encourages journal-writing in her own ballet classes.

Filed Under: Blog, Dance Bag, Dance Class Experience, Dancethropology, Dancing, Product/Website Reviews, Terminology Tagged With: a dancer's steps, ballet instructor, ballet journal, callifornia dance school, dance diary, dance journal, dance notebook, goal-setting, goals, how to keep a dance journal, journaling, keeping a dance notebook, logging your progress, nants foley, record combinations, remembering choreography, san benito dance academy, self-led, summer intensive, teaching ballet, workbook, write down dance steps

Dancesolutions 2011

January 20, 2011 by Lauren Warnecke

Art Intercepts’ Lauren Warnecke is taking some of your dancesolutions head on this year. You’ve expressed a desire to improve your technique, avoid injury, and increase flexibility. Look for tips and solutions to help you achieve your goals. Here is a sneak peek and a chance to let Lauren know what you’d like to see covered.

Filed Under: Blog, Dancing, Health, Wellness & The Dancer's Body, Technique Tagged With: achilles tendon, Art Intercepts column, common knee injuries in dance, dance goals for 2011, dance resolutions, dancesolutions, goals, how to improve balance, Lauren Warnecke, practical tips, sneak peek, the role of the spine in dance, the science of standing up, what's coming on Dance Advantage

How Much Dance Should My Child Be Taking? – Money and Value

October 11, 2010 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

A photo of someone dropping coins into a piggy bank

You may still have concerns about your investment in dance training. Your child is busy, taking hours of dance class per week, and you are wondering, “Is all of this money going toward the right things? Is my budding dancer getting what he or she needs for the best value?”

Filed Under: Competing, For Parents of Young Children, Parenting Dancers Tagged With: advantages of dance, balancing time and money, cost, Denise Wall, goals, how much is too much, investment in dance lessons, life lessons, money, quantity vs. quality, spend on dance instruction, value, what is most valuable

How Much Dance Should My Child Be Taking? – The Equation

September 29, 2010 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

If your child is asking, investigate the reasons she wants to take a new or additional dance class. Costume style, choreography, musical accompaniment, or maintaining friendships may be no less valid or less important to her than the desire to enhance her skills. Dance should be fun, too! Do not devalue or brush away these motivations, they are part of the equation.

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