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Improve Your Dancing

Learn ways to improve your dance skills and basic techniques.
Ballet Turnout - Tips to Improve Turnout in Ballet
Do you have any tips or exercises you use to improve turnout?
Strengthen Your Back Muscles
An illustrated tutorial to help strengthen your back muscles.
Strengthen Your Leg Muscles
An illustrated tutorial for strengthening the leg muscles.
Point Your Toes
An illustrated turtorial for learning how to properly point your toes.
Top 8 Dance Tips
Following are 8 tips to help you improve any style of dancing.
Tips for Learning Dance Routines
The following tips will help you memorize dance routines quickly and easily.
Improve Your Balance
Balance is an important component of all types of dance.
Dance Audition Tips
Dance auditions can be intimidating. Whether you are auditioning for a dance company, a major performance, or placement within your dance school, auditions bring out the butterflies in everyone. Even professional dancers feel the pressure as they pin their audition numbers onto their leotards. However, being a little nervous can actually be beneficial, as nerves sometimes enable us to jump highe…
Practice and Perfect - Arabesque
Practice makes perfect! Practice the arabesque to perfect your technique.
Practice and Perfect - Developpe
Practice makes perfect! Practice the developpe to perfect your technique.
Summer Dance Classes
If you're thinking of taking the summer off, think again. Many dancers make tremendous gains, as well as losses, over the summer.
Improve Your Turnout
A step-by-step, illustrated tutorial to help improve turnout.
3 Tips to Improve Your Leaps
Following are 3 tips to help you improve your leaps.
Improve Your Ballet Posture
Ballet dancers must learn how to properly hold their bodies in order to achieve maximum grace and balance.
Look Better on the Dance Floor
Good posture is important for successful ballroom dancing. Correct body alignment will improve your appearance on the dance floor.
Requirements to Dance on Pointe
Dancing on your toes requires tremendous strength of the legs and feet. Following are 5 requirements that must be met before considering starting pointe ballet classes.
What Is Turnout?
In ballet, turnout is the outward rotation of the hips and feet.
New Year's Resolutions for Dancers
If you are a dancer, perhaps you can think of a few ways to improve your dancing. Here is a list of new year's resolutions for dancers...write down a few and get dancing.
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