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…

An Update from London

  So I just want to apologise for the long absence. Things have gotten a little unexpectedly hectic in my life right now. It started off with a problem with my job, and snowballed from there. I have been applying for jobs and attending interviews, making plans, and I spent the last week working at…

How to Improve Your Sleep

This might seem like a strange topic for a dance blog, but it’s surprisingly important. Dancers have to train like athletes, and a huge part of training is allowing your body adequate recovery time. Getting enough good-quality sleep is essential in order to dance at your best, to improve and to get stronger. When you…

Overtraining, metabolic damage and recovery regime

  High guys! Sorry it’s been a while since my last post, I’ve been busy with work, and I’ve had a lot of planning to do for things coming up. Part of that planning includes this new regime I’ll be sharing with you! This a longer post than usual but read on to find out all…

Insanity Update- Is Insanity Right for Ballet Dancers?

  So it’s been a little while since my last Insanity update, mainly because I haven’t been exercising over the bank holiday weekend after our downstairs neighbours’ complaints! Read my Insanity adventures here with the first post and second post about my experiences. Being around 2 weeks in now, I’m starting to see a lot…

April Favourites

I haven’t done a favourites blog before, but I wanted to do this so that I could share some of the things I’ve been obsessing over this month. This might become a monthly feature- I might even do this in video format in the future, because I love watching favourites videos on YouTube! Let me know…

The Dancer’s Journal

So I’ve already mentioned this journal in my What’s In My Dance Bag post, but I really wanted to do a full review with pictures, because it really is an amazingly useful and beautiful product. I found this in the Bloch store in Covent Garden, just behind the till as I was paying, and I…

48 Thoughts Every Dancer Has During Class

Do I have time to eat this banana? No, probably not, I’ll get a stitch …ugh, I’m so hungry, though OK I’ll just have it No one had better be in my spot at the barre My calves are so tight And my hips I hope today is a Good Arabesque Day Oh my god,…

The Insanity continues…

Hi everyone! Here’s the next instalment of my Insanity diary… if you haven’t caught up on my foray into the world of cardio so far, you can read the first post here.     DAY FOUR: CARDIO RECOVERY When I saw the word “recovery”, I felt happy. I felt hopeful. About two and a half…