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Can A Woman In Her Forties Dance The Nutcracker?
Lauren Kessler gives readers a gutsy peek into her life, revealing all her fears and foibles, as she sets a tremendous challenge for herself as a forty-something woman: dancing in a professional...
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Strange Sounds Dancers’ Bodies Make
Click, crack, pop! Can you relate? Yes, you can… Clicking Feet Click. Click. Double click. No, it’s not my computer mouse. It’s my feet! What’s your superpower? Via Giphy Crunching Knees No, it doesn’t...
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Review: Music For Movement and Imaginations Volume Two by Richard Maddock
Dance Class Music for Ballet and Creative Movement (Children 3 and up) In 2009, I published my first official class music review and giveaway on Dance Advantage. After receiving the album, Richard...
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Ballet, boys…and penguins? Jennifer Longo’s “Up to This Pointe”
When all you’ve ever wanted to do was dance, specifically to be a ballerina, even more specifically to be a ballerina with San Francisco Ballet alongside your very best friend after focusing on nothing...
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3 Ways To Find Unique Music For Dance
I once went to an emerging choreography showcase where almost half of the choreographers used the same composer: completely by coincidence. While there are a multitude of reasons why this may have...
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5 Ballets That Will (Happily) Break Your Heart
Humans love a good tragedy. We fall for heartrending tales because watching unhappy stories actually promotes happy feelings. Negative emotions make us think and empathize, and reading or watching...
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Getting Started With Essential Oils For Dancers
Dancers are athletes! Regardless of whether or not you consider dance a sport, it’s hard to argue that a high level of athleticism is required of dancers in the 21st Century. The rigorous training and...
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REVIEW Terez Mertes Rose’s “Outside the Limelight”
About OUTSIDE THE LIMELIGHT, from the author: Rising ballet star Dena Lindgren’s dream career is knocked off its axis when a puzzling onstage fall results in a crushing diagnosis: a brain tumor....
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10 Holiday Gifts for Dancers
There’s a little something for everyone and something at every price level in our 2016 dancer wishlist. Fashionable dancewear and jewelry, holiday ornaments, must-have performance or competition gear,...
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Pampered Dancer DIY Peppermint Foot Lotion
This DIY whipped peppermint lotion is really special for anyone suffering with rough, scaly, dry “sandpaper” feet, making it a wonderful gift for yourself or any dancer you know. It can be used...
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Costume Design for Dance, Ballet Fashion and the Tutu
The dance and fashion worlds often intersect. That’s because dancers like to look good on and off stage. We’ve provided costume measuring and alteration advice in the past but below our friends help...
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Girl Through Glass: Love, Obsession and Ballet in a Novel by Sari Wilson
In Sari Wilson’s new novel, “Girl Through Glass,” two tales of love converge: teenage ballerina Mira’s obsession with a much older man and middle-aged college professor Kate’s desire to reconnect with...
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Eva Maze: Dance from another angle
Discover “With Ballet in My Soul” on Amazon When a little girl begins to study ballet as a child, she typically envisions herself in a tutu and tiara, skittering across the floor en pointe, being held...
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A passion for ballet leads to romance in “Cantique,” a novel by Joanna Marsh
Colette Larson, the twentysomething lead in Joanna Marsh’s debut novel, Cantique, is like so many intelligent and multi-faceted young women these days. While her day job is fulfilling financially and...
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Dance Studio Owner: A Decade of Support for Business Owners
Though I live in the city of Houston now, I grew up in a small town and have taught most of my life for “hometown” studios, where a dance studio owner is wearing all the hats, and juggling all the...
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“Experiencing the Art of Pas de Deux”: Philosophical and Practical Guidance...
Click photo for Amazon link to purchase. Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg and Carlos Miguel Guerra, partners on-stage and off, present a book with a thorough understanding of the needs of both sides of a...
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Book Review: “A Dancer’s Guide to Africa”& Interview with Terez Mertes Rose
photo courtesy author, Terez Mertes Rose In Terez Mertes Rose’s latest novel, a recent college grad, feeling lost and dejected after her older sister becomes engaged to her ex-boyfriend, decides to...
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Nicholson’s Action-Packed Retelling of the Nutcracker
A new twist on an old tale In Daniel Lee Nicholson’s middle-grade novel, “Prince Dustin and Clara, Book One: Deep in the Black Forest,” ETA Hoffmann’s 1816 tale, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King,”...
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Getting Cozy with a Ballet Mystery
A review of Alison Stone’s “Pointe and Shoot,” a mystery set in a dance school in a small New York town. From Goodreads: Jayne Murphy has always put family first. That’s why she abandoned her dream of...
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A Picture Book for the Anxious Little Dancer in Your Life
From the publisher’s description: Pilar loves to dance. She pliés while brushing her teeth. She leaps when hurrying to ballet class. But when tryouts for her favorite ballet are held, Pilar is anxious....
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