Great Tips for Better Balance

Great Tips for Better Balance

Good balance is an essential trait for any dancer. Whether you’re practising en pointe or you need to maintain a difficult position for longer, it can often seem that other people have a far better sense of balance than you. Dance School North Tyneside It’s easier, of...
How Props Can Enhance Your Dance

How Props Can Enhance Your Dance

It’s hard enough learning a dance routine and perfecting the moves but if you have to use a prop during a performance it can be even more challenging. Dance School North Tyneside The truth is that props are often used to enhance a routine whether it’s Gene Kelly...
How to Combat Stage Fright

How to Combat Stage Fright

After all the practice and effort, you have put into learning and perfecting your dance routine, there comes a time when you are ready to perform in front of an audience. As you stand in the wings, you can feel the steadily growing nerves and before you know it, you...
How to Improve Your Turnouts

How to Improve Your Turnouts

Many ballet dancers, especially when they are first starting, think that they have average or even terrible turnout. It can be dispiriting in the first instance but with practice and using the approaches below, you should be able to improve turnouts considerably. All...
Does Going En Pointe Hurt?

Does Going En Pointe Hurt?

There is probably a no more defining image in ballet than dancers going en pointe. It’s something that is an integral part of dancing and it’s one of the first things that newbies want to learn to do. To the naked eye, it can seem like a difficult almost magical and...