Geek Out, Don't Freak Out: My Treasure Trove of Lessons Learned

Five reasons a thorough ballet curriculum will help your dance studio *business* so you can gain clients and profit while simplifying your

Five tips to help you establish trust with your ballet students. When the ballet class is full of trust, dancers learn and progress more qui

Are you having trouble getting your students to point their feet? Here are six tips to help you help your ballet dancers

For corrections to be most effective, you need to offer them in a way where the information builds. Here are the first three things to check

Do you know what your priorities are in your classroom? For today? For this unit? For this year? For next year?

Some days it feels like there is so much in the world that could/should change and I start to wonder why I'm even teaching ballet. Does it

Using phrases that model the future that we see possible for our students is so important. By this point in the dance season, students are

Ballet dancers could write the book on perfectionism. But that mindset isn't healthy or helpful, so here are 4 tips to help shift towards gr

Your pre-barre warm-up isn't just about getting the snaps and pops out of the way. You can use this time to really target some of the most c

There are small details in chassé that can be taught differently, depending on your preference and goals. The most important thing is consis

I grew up hearing a lot of "turn your weaknesses into strengths." I see the value in that. That philosophy is why we practice pirouettes on

There are many wonderful training systems in the ballet world. One question that I often hear is, "When should we start introducing other

Teacher trainings are an important part of a well-organized ballet program. This sample agenda will help you plan meetings that are short...

I don't think there's a magic trick that will automatically get every student to maintain turnout in piqué turns. It's just attention to det

Barre work is helpful, but NOT the most important part of class. It comes first, but the work we do later has a much bigger impact on whole-

Everyone wants flat turnout. Never mind that the huge majority of us are never going to safely attain it (although most of us can get close

We've all been there. You're evaluating your teaching and the list of things you want to improve keeps getting longer and longer and longer

As children mature, the shift from "baby ballet" into "big kid ballet" can take some of them by surprise. There are steps teachers can take

Do you teach pirouette in cou-de-pied? Ever? Before pirouette in retiré? After? Why? One very commonly needed correction in pirouette is to

Progressing pirouette includes what foot position you are starting from and finishing in. Here is a logical progression--although there are