Category: For Students

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Take Care of Your Ballerina Hair

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

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Health & Fitness

What’s So Hot About Bone Broth?

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

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Texting Best Practices

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

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Stage Fright: Control It, Don’t Let It Control You

Have you nailed it in your living room and then had a meltdown on stage? Yes? Then you’ve suffered from stage fright. But stage fright doesn’t require that you be “on stage.” It could strike anytime you have an “audience” of any size. Some dancers get “stage fright” when simply

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A Fun Look at Three Famous Ballet Plots

Dancers of all ages take part in performing some of ballet’s most famous works. And while the dance and artistry is beautiful, the plots of these ballets are quite difficult to follow – even for some mature dancers. Recently, Rachel Rizzuto of Dance Magazine took this fact and ran with

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Health & Fitness

How Bad is Sugar for Us – Really?

Sugar’s Impact on Our Health We hear something new (and different) everyday about the effects of sugar on our health. And with obesity levels on a constant rise in the US, we all struggle to know what we should and shouldn’t believe. Many think that having a little sugar here

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Health & Fitness

Mind Strength: Show It in What You Don’t Do

What you don’t do can be as important as what you do when it comes to how mentally strong you are. And your mental strength can help you when you: Have to make tough decisions. Face adversity. Need to maintain focus through the distractions that can divert you from your

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Make Sure You Have “The Best Vacation Ever”

If you’re thinking back over your most recent vacations, do you wonder why some are awesome – and then some just aren’t? Don’t rush to blame the location. It could have nothing to do with where you went, but how you went about it. This can be especially true for

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Choreography: The sequence of steps and movements

We are sharing this article from David Dunkle, a guest blogger at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. With a lifelong interest in telling people why they should love the arts, David recently spoke with choreographers Jeffrey Cirio, Kelly Ann Sloan and Matthew Powell about their new works premiering during June Series and

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Being Late is Unacceptable

Don’t be offended by this post if it hits close to home, but I think it’s something that needs to be said: Being late is not acceptable. In fact, it’s just plain rude. Some consider that statement to be “irrelevant to today’s generation.” Bunny hockey. Being on time is basic

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