Did you celebrate National Tap Dance Day on May 25th? The date really isn’t good timing with competition season in full swing and recitals taking place but it marks the birthday of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson who was a very famous tap dancer in the 1930s and helped to define Vaudeville’s

Shellie Karabell’s blogs on leadership are often featured on Forbes.com so it’s exciting that a recent post of hers shared seven attributes why she thinks ballet can improve leadership skills in dancers. What a fantastic forum for ballet! Ballet can teach some amazing things that most people don’t realize. Young

Think of your body as the vehicle to your dreams.  Honor it.  Respect it.  Fuel it. Create a list of all the things your body lets you do.  Read it and add to it often. Become aware of what your body can do each day.  Remember it is the instrument

Why should your students want to know how their muscles work? Knowing how their muscles work will help your students understand how to execute their moves and combinations better and become better, more confident dancers. The fancy term for the study of human movement is kinesiology. Dance Kinesiology is the

Similar to dancers, as teachers and choreographers we also have to develop a pretty thick skin. Each year as our dancers hit the competition stage we place our bare naked creativity out to be scrutinized by our contemporaries. We place the very lives we live under the microscope. Our dancers,

To keep your ballerina “look” you must take care of your hair! Pulling your hair into a ballerina bun every day (or many times a week) puts a lot of stress and tension on not only your hair but your scalp too. How do you take care of you hair

You may think there’s nothing else that you can say about this topic. But there is! There has been a new series of studies on runners that reveals something new. It’s a fact that cramps are debilitating. And they seem to come when you expect them least. Common knowledge attributes

Here in the US, we’re finally picking up on something that has been a considered a great healer in many cultures for years: bone broth. We even have the “Starbucks” of bone broth that has opened in New York called Brodo. Brodo’s owner, Marco Canora, native South American notes that

We are excited about one of our latest enhancements – texting via Jackrabbit. If you haven’t heard about it, read this quick blog explaining what it’s all about. In this post, we’ll give you some tips to use this feature correctly. Just like Spam with email, you can get spammed