Happy New Year, dancers! 2019 was a strange one for me- mainly because I spent 9 months of the year out of dancing due to injury, eventually undergoing ankle surgery. My main goal for 2020 is to get back to full fitness and back to dancing fully again (at the moment I’m only managing a…
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An Adult Beginner’s Guide to Ballet: Part Three- Things to Know Before you Start
So, quite some time ago I began a series of posts called “An Adult Beginner’s Guide to Ballet”. I work a lot with adult beginners and wanted to answer some of the most common questions people have when beginning ballet for the first time as an adult, or taking it up again after a long…
An Adult Beginner’s Guide to Ballet: Part Two- Choosing a Studio
I’ll be continuing my series on advice for adult beginners with how to choose your studio. If you missed the last post, about whether ballet is right for you, you can read that here. So, choosing your studio: with any luck, you’ll have a wealth of choice available to you- these days, ballet classes for…
The Ultimate Guide to Studio Etiquette
This post may have some use for everyone, but I wrote it with adult beginners in mind. Coming in to a ballet class is like entering another world; one with different rules and practices to those observed outside the studio. No one really explains those rules, you just have to pick them up- but sometimes…
Ballet on a Budget
It’s no secret that ballet- as a career, hobby or interest- can be expensive. There’s the cost of classes, dancewear, shoes, physiotherapy, auditions- and that’s just scratching the surface. So, if we’re being honest, is ballet only really viable for those who are ‘better off’ financially? Well, as someone who is not from a privileged…