Today is Family Day and while the studio is closed tonight I still can feel the love of my dance family. When I first started dancing at age 8 I never thought that dance would become such a huge part of my life, nor that the people that dance brought [...]
New Years is a time for goal setting - reflection of what has passed and a time to get inspired and motivated about what 2017 can bring for our futures in both life and in dance! But now it’s February. Have we been paying attention to our goals? How do [...]
When I was two or three, my mom signed me up for ballet. Well, she signed me up for a movement class but I really liked tutus — I had a flair for drama at an early age. While everyone else was in t-shirts and pants with cartoon characters on [...]
When I asked my mom why she signed me up for dance classes, she looked at me a bit sheepishly, and then replied, “Well Lainy, you were a bit… um… chunky… and well, klutzy.” Thanks Mom. That may have been the start for me but it definitely isn’t why I [...]
The holidays and ballet have something extremely in common. Ballet is based on a collection of traditions, from how we enter the class, the progression of the class all the way to the final reverence at the end of class. Traditions exist within the very structure of the [...]
