Things Your Dance Instructor Wished You Knew
Dance instructors can spend up to 10 hours a day in the studio. They see and notice a lot of things that we don’t,…
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5 Tips To Remember Dance Patterns And Moves From Class
How can I remember moves that I learned in dance class? In our second episode of the new podcast “On the Dance Floor”, Brian…
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How to Balance Your Dance Life With the Rest of Your Life
In my early 20s I lived in San Francisco and worked in an office with a lot of other young, recent grads. It was…
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Dancing With a Weird (But Fairly Mild) Injury
Last week, I sliced the tip of my left index finger off with a bread knife. Luckily, it wasn’t serious and didn’t require stitches…
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Five Choreographic Tips To Mix Up Your Social Dancing
People often gravitate toward social dance because it doesn’t rely on set choreography and has a more spontaneous and improvisational nature. However, that doesn’t…
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Why Are We Uncomfortable with Safety?
The idea of making dance scenes “safer” isn’t new, but it’s also one that creates a lot of discomfort. Why is that? What can…
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Salsera Tries Tango: The Beginning of a Love Story
I’ve been fascinated by Argentine Tango for a while. The intensity, the focus, the precision, the musicality—it’s something that I’ve long admired, but has…
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What to Do When You Are Uncomfortable
This is written for all of you who have ever felt uncomfortable because of someone coming on to you during a dance. If you’ve…
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We Need to Change the Way We Think About Creativity
Why don’t we think about—and teach—creativity and musicality in the same way we teach adults and children how to build other skill sets? After…
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Why Social Dance Is Addicting (According to Tony Robbins)
The “Why we do what we do” TED Talk by Tony Robbins has more than 20 million views on the TED website. In the…
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