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Lawrence’s Dance Tip – Connection is King

January 26, 2010 – 3:49 am

Understanding how we relate to another body as we dance is not just important, it is our dancing. There is much overlap of the skills and techniques that you develop in any of the movement arts. You develop muscle control and strength, flexibility, core strength and even rhythm. While these are all very important skills [...]

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Lawrence’s Dance Tip – Practice Pieces

January 19, 2010 – 3:24 am

Dance practice is such an important part of our dance training. If you want your dance skills to progress more quickly, spend a bit of time on reviewing specific aspects of your dancing. With our upcoming showcase one very good aspect to develop is expression. Expression in your dancing can take many forms. We talk [...]

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Mary’s Dance Tip – Expand Your Dance Horizons

December 15, 2009 – 8:26 pm

The holidays are upon us and along with our busy schedules our holiday travels often disrupt our dance training and fun. We should take advantage of this time as an opportunity to explore new dance options.

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Lawrence’s Dance Tip – Over the Top

December 8, 2009 – 3:30 am

With the Holiday Showcase fast approaching we want to remember one of the important aspects of performance dancing, expression. Particularly with show dancing we want to remember that our movement can tell a story, relate a style, feeling or emotion. In order to do so we must train and develop the aspects of our dancing [...]

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Lawrence’s Dance Tip – Bottoms Up

December 1, 2009 – 9:15 am

Well, maybe it would be more accurate to say “from the bottom up.” A very effective way to develop your dancing is to start with the feet. It can be useful to first learn where to put your feet. We call this foot placement. More important, however, is footwork. Footwork refers to how we land [...]

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Mary’s Dance Tip – Supplement Your Dance Fitness

November 25, 2009 – 2:25 am

Dancing can be a great way to exercise in a fun and social way. But if you want to take your dancing to the next level you should supplement your dance fitness.