An interview with me at 4dancers!

To celebrate a month of Adult Ballet, the owner of the very awesome website, 4dancers, Catherine Tully has posted interviews with many adult ballet dancers.  All of them have terrific stories about how they started in dance, what their backgrounds are, and the joy they get from studying ballet.  In a previous post, I mentioned a couple of my favorite stories.

And now, here is mine!  From the perspective of being a teacher of these amazing students, of course. 

Enjoy the wonderful articles and be sure to bookmark Catherine's site to get updates when she posts. 

Happy dancing, beautiful dance peeps~

Spotlight on Adult Ballet at 4Dancers blog!

You know I'm always looking for good stuff and one of my favorite places for good stuff is 4Dancers.  This month, the awesome blog has a series of really terrific interviews with adults who began ballet later in life, as well as its regular pro dance features.  I especially loved reading this one about Acacia Warwick, who began dancing after her chemo treatments for breast cancer. I love her upbeat attitude and her no-nonsense advice to dance if you want to dance.  That's exactly right!  My new motto for all of my students, regardless of age:

You have one life to live; dance if you want to.

There are so many other wonderful interviews on the blog.  Do yourself a favor and get inspired by others.  And next week, look for an interview with me!  I answered Catherine's questions about teaching adults.

Happy dancing~

An Aussie dancer's blog: 52 Weeks of Adult Ballet

Thanks to one of my favorite dance blogs, 4Dancers, I was introduced to "52 Weeks of Adult Ballet," a blog written by Jean Kyle, an Australian woman originally from Malaysia, who set herself the challenge of chronicling an entire year of her return to ballet as an adult. I really enjoy reading her posts and think there are some terrific nuggets of inspiration here, for all levels of dancers.

And reading about her instructor, Tibor, makes me want to travel Down Under to take class myself! Good luck, Jean!