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Tango Elixir: Tango Alignment Part 1

Nina Tatarowicz from Tango Elixir on tango alignment: Letʼs look at our Tango Alignment from the ground up. So starting with the feet: We always make sure that our weight is on one foot or the other. But how can we be sure that weʼre stable? Try to find the connection onto the floor from [...]

The Hard Working Foot, Part Two

Pain in the sole of your foot is no fun. Why it happens and ways to deal. Foot pain is…a pain (duh) but can be especially worrying when you’re a dancer.  Pain in the plantar (or bottom) surface of your foot can range from mild soreness to highly uncomfortable, and can potentially put you on [...]

Dancer Health: When There’s No Time to Recover

Every once in a while a dancer is faced with with many weeks or months without a day off. Whether that is rehearsing, performing, teaching or all three it can be pretty draining on the mind and body. There are a few ways that you can make sure to take care of all of you. [...]

Dance Inspiration: another reason to dance

Dance Inspiration: Phillip Ollenburg of Nomi Dance at Visceral

Phillip Ollenburg (Nomi Dance Company) at Visceral Dance Center

The Hard Working Foot, Part One

Be kind to your feet and they will treat you well. Work Those Feet A strong foot is a happy foot-and less prone to injury.  Ergo, happy feet make happy (and less injured) dancers.  Unfortunately, I often find that dancers don’t really know how to accomplish this-habits develop, feet sickle, and…no need to finish this [...]

Dancer How To: Tips to get the job

Everyone wants to know how dancers get any job from an audition. Well for the most part you will never know for sure why on dancer gets picked over another. There is a wide range of qualities that a director is looking for form height, body type, eye color, to overall movement quality.  There will [...]

Don’t ever let anyone dull your SPARKLE

Shine on, dancers. Shine on…

Dancer Health: After Holiday Cleanse

For many years, “cleanses” have been in the media as something to do in order to flush out your system to “start over”.  However, if you really look into many of these great bodily cleanses you see that most of the time you can’t do anything else while doing them, and they often last around [...]