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Ballroom dance classes are offered at several dance studios at an affordable cost. Those who want to learn social dancing need lessons to learn all the right moves. With a bit of coaching, you can develop a good style and move gracefully across the floor. Ballroom dancing not only helps you with socialization and gaining …
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It always drives me a little crazy when students neglect to practice in between classes. I know... They have kids at home, they work all hours, etc. - but it gets to me, because I KNOW they could be learning new stuff instead of reviewing the same material over and over. As someone working on …
Continue reading "The Solo Practice Guide: A Review"
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Note: This content is for members only. Few things are more annoying than spending a ridiculous amount of money on a competition, only to find out you aren't actually competing against anyone at all, because none of your heats are contested. I offer some suggestions one how to determine if heats will be contested before you …
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Note: This content is for members only. Most of us hear at least a song or two every day - and many of us hear far FAR more than that. Yet, almost none of us stop to consider how a song is built, that there is a conscious reasoning behind the music we hear that …
Continue reading "Keeping Time, Part Three: The Anatomy of a Song"
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Note: This content is for members only. Musicality in dancing, put simply, is the ability to change your dancing with a change in the music. To do that, you need to know how long your patterns are, and how long a particular section of music is. Enter the 8-count, the basic unit of measurement we …
Continue reading "Keeping Time, Part Two: Understanding the 8-Count"
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Note: This content is for members only. You know what sucks? Going to someone for help about something, and having them spit out a bunch of big words you can't understand and only serve to inflate their ego. That's how I feel sometimes when I ask others about better ways to teach dance timing to …
Continue reading "Keeping Time, Part One: Finding the Beat"
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Note: This content is for members only. For our final part in our series on New Year's resolutions, I would like to reintroduce Ellen Smith, the life coach who was featured in a previous interview on self-sabotague. As Ellen says, she doesn't believe in New Year's resolutions at all, but setting a softer target that …
Continue reading "Dance Resolutions, Part Four: An Alternative to Goal-Setting"
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Daily routines. To-do lists. Reminder alerts. Whatever strategy you use to keep yourself consistent, one thing stays the same: You're following a routine. Many people resist having so much structure in their life (myself included), but as I've discovered, not planning ahead but instead "just waiting to feel like it" may leave you waiting forever. …
Continue reading "Dance Resolution, Part Three: Keeping a Routine"
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Ah, the dreaded burnout, scourge of many a would-be dancer's dreams. Anyone who has taken on too much too fast can relate - and setting New Year's Resolutions is a prime time for that. Hope I reached you in time! The secret to achieving the goals you set for yourself is not by barreling ahead, …
Continue reading "Dance Resolutions, Part Two: Avoiding Burnout"
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Happy New Year everyone! Motivation has long been something that fascinates me: This invisible force which can push people to do great things or hold them in mediocrity. And what better time to talk about motivation than when we're all deciding on our resolutions for the year? Perhaps the reason why motivation can be such …
Continue reading "Dance Resolutions, Part One: The Danger of “Easy”"
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