ballet passionates: Archive

March 2012

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Ballerina Diary: Your Best Body: The Audition Day Diet → ballerinadiary.tumblr.com

A meal plan to fuel you through any cattle call

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Alexandra Hughes remembers she was too nervous to eat before one of her first company auditions. She entered the studio on an empty stomach—and quickly realized she’d made a mistake. “I felt like…

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What you need to do—from daily tricks to life lessons—to become the best dancer you can be?

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Misha Gabriel

Develop good networking skills. Some choreographers don’t like to hold auditions, so make a point of getting to know choreographers by taking their classes. You’ll create long-lasting professional relationships.

Stay aware of the quality of your dancing. Don’t get wrapped up in booking jobs and building your resumé—you have to keep training, taking class and building your dance skills.

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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer” —(via ballerinadiary)

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“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche” —(via ballerinadiary)

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“If you put your mind, heart and soul into something, you will never be a failure.” —Vanessa Zahorian, San Francisco Ballet (via teethequoter)

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Ballerina Diary: What you need to do—from daily tricks to life lessons—to become the best dancer you can be? → ballerinadiary.tumblr.com

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Andy Blankenbuehler

The best tips for becoming a great dancer might be things you don’t learn in the studio. Watch people’s body language on the street. Watch how fearless children are. Watch how people interact. Those are the kinds of real life things that we should aspire to capture in our…

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“No performance is a perfect performance but some performances allow for the feeling of perfection. Achieving this moment of ecstasy easily validates all the pain and struggle of the art form by taking us (and possibly our audience) for a moment to a world beyond our own.” - Wendy Whelan” —(via ballerinadiary)

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does anyone know where to watch from full episodes of dance moms?i tried lifetime,but it says my country can’t watch.is there anything i could do?please help!!

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