The Dance Primer

This look at the blogroll is a bit shorter than usual, but I’d rather get them out there instead of waiting around in my drafts…
If you are an author on one of these blogs, I’d love for you add a little more about what your site is all about, or about yourself personally, in the […]

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I took the challenge and looked for a place where a cartwheel might be appropriate in ballet. (Thanks, YouTube.) This isn’t the highest professional performance… but I would say that this character in The Nutcracker should be allowed to do cartwheels.

This is obviously a relative video taping their young dancer. I always cringed at the […]

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I’m the fifth of six children in my family. My parents were teachers, so our income was not the kind that a family of 8 (plus a live-in Grandma and usually an exchange student to boot) could live on with luxury. My parents did have an appreciation for extra-curricular activities, but there was a budget […]

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Here’s a closer look at the first 13 links in the blog roll. I hope this helps you navigate through which sites you will be interested in. I will periodically post “closer looks” until I’ve covered all 100+ of them…
If you are an author on one of these blogs, I’d love for you add […]

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While we’re on the subject of technique, I know of no dance genre with more refined technique than ballet. What skill! Here is a commercial for the Anaheim Ballet spotlighting their dancers’ fantastic technique.

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Do you know the difference between a Romantic and a Classicist? When I was a music major in college, I got in trouble for interpreting a Mozart piece Romantically. I had done so intentionally, and had my justifications, but it didn’t fly with the department head.
In music, and in dance, I am most definitely a […]

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There is a fantastic dance blog called The Winger. Performers with different dance companies around the world share with the rest of us their experiences through stories and photos. Check it out!

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