PVC DIY home ballet barres are a cheap alternative to buying one. Adding in some wooden dowel or barres in replace of PVC for the handrail can add that extra touch to your barre to not only help weigh the lightweight PVC down making it sturdier but also adding that studio feel to your ballet barre. There are some different …
The Best Dance & Ballet Themed Bedroom Decor, Accessories & Ideas
Whether you are wanting to design and create the ultimate dreamy and whimsical ballet themed bedroom or create a bright and fun bedroom for jazz or tap dancer, this article is what you have been looking for. A curated list of tips and ideas as well as links to decor and accessories to plan and create the dream bedroom your …
Build a Single PVC Ballet Barre: Video & Step by Step Instructions
Building a single ballet barre from PVC is super simple and a really cheap solution that can make doing ballet and dance practice from home much easier than using a chair, bench or table. The great thing about this barre is that it is really customizable. I personally feel it is a good height if you follow my measurements your …
How To Cut PVC Pipe For Beginners: DIY Home & Craft Projects
Cutting PVC for your Do It Yourself Home or Craft project does not have to be complicated. I recently made 9 different ballet barres to work out which one was best and 7 of those required me to cut PVC pipe into various lengths and for several to match each other in exact length and I give you the exact …
10 Tips for Parents and Students to Support Online Dance Learning
Dance classes have been offered through online learning for quite a while, many of these programs contain pre-recorded lessons that you can take and do at your own pace and leisure. But recently there has been a growing need for dance studios and teachers to provide live, real-time dance classes in a virtual online format for those students either choosing …
How to Set Your Child Up To Succeed In Their Virtual Online Dance Classes
I currently have two daughters at home who at the beginning of 2020 were both enrolled in three or four dance and ballet lessons a week attending them in the dance studio. Then the pandemic hit and we were in lockdown doing distance school education and online or virtual dance classes. My ten-year-old has adapted quite well, but it has …
Creative Movement for Kids & Toddlers – Let’s Move Like Sea Animals
I am not going to lie, I love how I was able to make it look as though I had a couple of real-life baby sea turtles on the floor near me in this video tutorial! And I hope your kids enjoy being a sea turtle with me as well as crawling like a crab and rolling our bodies in …
DIY Double Metal Ballet Barre – Video Tutorial, PDF & Instructions
When I went to the hardware store to buy the galvanized metal pipes I would need to build this double barre for home ballet practice I explained my project to the guy who looked after the materials in that aisle. His verdict was that it wouldn’t work because I would probably get into trouble with the direction of the threads …
How to Make a Ballet Barre: Video & Instructions for Galvanised Steel Pipe
Making a single ballet barre from Galvanised Steel was pretty easy – once I realized that it had to be put together in a certain way. This is because of the direction everything needed to be screwed in. What wasn’t 100% easy was actually obtaining all the parts as many of the lengths I wanted and some fittings were sold …
How to Make a DIY Home PVC Ballet Barre – Video & Step by Step Tutorial
2020 has been a wild ride hasn’t it! I never would have dreamed my girls would have been doing their ballet lessons online and at home but this is what pushed me to find out how to make a DIY home ballet barre. To make a sturdy DIY Ballet barre you need 20 feet of C-PVC pipe, a hack saw …