Failure to Success: Top Tips to Motivate your Dancer After Rejection
Failure or rejection as a young dancer can feel so all-encompassing and life-altering. What are some ways we can help motivate our dancers after rejection?
Healthy Dancers
Why Protein is So Important for your Dancer’s Health
Protein is without a doubt a highly discussed nutrient for dancers’ health. There have been many debates and myths surrounding this nutrient, so in this article, our goal will be …
How to Keep Your Dancer Fit Over The Holidays – Without Dancing!
It’s the summer holiday season, and you know what that means! It’s time to take a hiatus from your child’s dance and ballet classes. No more afterschool runs to the …
12 Ways to Help Any Dancer Cope with Performance Anxiety
Performing in front of an audience seems like it should come naturally to all dancers, but most dancers – even prima ballerinas – are not exempt from having pre-performance nerves …
How to Motivate a Young Dancer to Not Quit in Just 3 Steps!
It’s thirty minutes before your kid’s dance class and you need to leave in ten to get there on time but your child isn’t even dressed yet and when you …
Fat Ballerina – Your child doesn’t have the Ballet body for dance! Now What?
By Samantha Bellerose, B.Ed, Dip.Dance (Performing Arts) So your child doesn’t meet the insanely difficult requirements that need to be met physically to become a prima ballerina….but they L.O.V.E. ballet. They think …
How to help kids and teens lose weight to get a ballet body!
Your child loves to dance. They love ballet or they might be into hip hop, jazz, tap or even ballroom dancing. The thing is the baby fat you always hoped would shift with all this extra activity they are doing is not moving. So what do you do as the parent?