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Men and Ballet

2008-03-16T15:03:40Z

Lately ive been having a desire to take an adult ballet class, It would get me moving and add some discipline to my daily life. some structure i feel...being male, there are some feelings of shyness or feeling out of place in a class.
I was wondering if any could offer some advice or share some thoughts about how i might enter into such a class...

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Ballet group in November

2006-10-15T15:20:56Z

Ballet San Jose is putting on Gissele with a full orchestra November 16-19th. We get a backstage tour if we come as a group of at least 10. plus cheaper ticket prices!

Anyone want to join me for a performance?

Zifra

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Anybody here take classes with Julie Lowe?

2006-08-02T21:35:49Z

I am taking a intro class with her and it is wonderful.

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Want to gain experience as a dance instructor?

2006-05-05T01:47:23Z

Hi!

I am looking for a private ballet teacher for 1 - 2 hours of work a week in the Hollywood, CA area. My front room is empty and has a hardwood floor. I also have my own barre. Last year I took 4 hours a week of classical ballet and classical Armenian dance while overseas. I would be happy to work with a beginning teacher and to recommend you to other people and to spread the word. What I am looking for is someone to lead me through a basic floor and barre warm up and then through simple exercises or choreographies. Compensation between $20 to $25 an hour depending on your experience. This would be one evening a week.
Thanks! You can also call (310) 739 1159.

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seeking dancers for collaboration on my photo art projects

2006-01-08T21:09:05Z

Hello, I'm a fine art photographer currently in SoCal (Orange County) seeking dancers to collaborate with me on my fine art projects. Please see my bio photos for samples of my art. I'm interested in creating figure study images -in studio- of poses that highlight a dancer's grace and strength. Payment is negotiable.
Thanks,
Bruce

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Back after 6 year break

2005-12-15T14:44:17Z

I teach Middle Eastern dance, and have been renting studio space at a ballet studio. Long story short, I was watching class, missed it, and decided to enroll. I never thought I'd end up at the barre again, but I'm back in classes after about a 6 year break from ballet altogether. I'm absolutely loving it, and the instructor is a guy I used to dance with years ago, so it's sort of like "coming home again."

It's better this time because there are no performance pressures, I'm not worried about competition or going pro, and I can just enjoy the class and how it makes me feel (which is usually exhausted, but in a good way).

Anybody else give it up, only to return years later? What were your expectations? Were they met? Any suggestions?

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Orlando Area Classes

2005-06-17T12:40:57Z

Does anyone here know of or recommend any area places/ teachers that cater to "have been ballerinas"? I used to dance at a local company, but quit when i was 19. Now that i am physically fit again, i want to get back into it, but unless i take it as a college major, i am having trouble finding places that take older students.

Help!

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adult classes in Sf

2005-05-11T20:31:00Z

Can any one reccomend a good place for adult ballet in SF? preferably near potrero hill.

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ballet buddies

2005-05-04T19:35:56Z

I am looking to meet SF people who are interested in checking out some different drop-in classes or jtaking the same class together each week.~Magdalena

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Sausalito/SF students - my loss is your gain

2005-04-21T15:04:27Z

My teacher, Miya Hisaka, is moving from DC to open a new studio in Sausalito :( I've been taking ballet and modern with her for over 5 years, and she was the first person to encourage me to get out there and think seriously about performing. I will really miss her.

She will be teaching beginning and intermediate level ballet and modern classes (her modern classes are horton based with some graham elements too). She's moving in May and I think her classes will start in June. For anyone in the area I strongly urge you to check out her classes!

Here's where she will be located:

Miya Hisaka
El Teatro de Danza Contemporanea de El Salvador
C/O: Stage Dor Performance Studio
10 Liberty Ship Way, Bay 3, Suite 340
Sausalito, CA 94965
415/339-1390

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instruction cards

2005-04-18T16:57:25Z

When I first started dancing a zillion years ago my teacher gave me a small notecard size stack of instruction cards with positions. Of course those were lost a long time ago. Does anyone know of these cards, have them, know where they are sold....??? Let me know. Thanks!

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adult ballet class in Los Angeles

2005-03-26T09:12:02Z

For anyone located in or near L.A. there's a great adult ballet class taught by Mario Nugara at the Dance Arts Academy on La Brea. It meets every Thursday from 10-11:30am (except for the next two Thursdays 3/17 and 3/24) and focuses on correct alignment and dancing injury free. Most of the barre and center work are very basic (though they require a knowledge of ballet) but you'll find that it's one of the best workouts because you learn to dance anatomically correct and you feel so stretched out at the end of class. Feel free to drop in and check it out. $15 a class. Class resume 3/31.

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Beginning Pas de Deux class in Redwood City, CA

2005-03-26T01:29:27Z

I just joined this tribe and wanted to say hello. I've been taking classes as an adult for about six years and am always happy to meet other adult dancers.

One of the studios where I take class is having beginning Pas de Deux (ballet partnering) classes which should be accessible to all female dancers on pointe (and you could actually scrape by without pointe shoes) and almost all male dancers. The studio is:
http://www.americanballet.com/
Pas class is on Tuesdays from 6:30-8:00 (excluding 3/29 due to Spring Vacation). Most other Pas classes are only available at a very advanced level, so this is a unique opportunity for more people to participate in the beauty of Pas de Deux.

Feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

Thanks,
-Brian

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New to this tribe

2005-03-15T15:58:55Z

Hello! I'm new :) Just started dancing again after a 10 year hiatus - and it's really not like riding a bicycle at all, I find that I've forgotton so much and my balance is horrible- but I'm still going to take classes because while I may look like an idiot doing it, I love it so much!

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Let's get this going again....

2004-04-10T10:03:37Z

Ok this board has been dead for a while...where is everyone!? I guess we're all just busy working our skills. Which is good :)

Ok camera lights action:

What was your best moment in dance? The one thing you look back on and think...man that was amazing...that felt so right?

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Dunham???

2004-03-01T21:37:41Z

Saposedly an afro-cuban ballet.
I'm looking for a class in the nyc area.
If anyone knows this type of dance or had taken a class, please share any info you can offer.
Thanks!!!!

Dana

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Actively dancing?

2004-03-01T02:26:52Z

So how many of you are actively dancing? Do you do it professionally or for fun?

I was taking it for fun in the last four years but stopped [I used to dance when I was a kid and had missed it]. I'm thinking of taking it up again in the summer.

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Taught a new class tonight....

2004-02-26T02:03:16Z

Aaagggg...I taught an 'advanced' ballet class tonight at a studio I'm considering working for and it was so sad...I swear it was like some of these girls had never danced before ever....I've got a lot of work to do....it just makes me so sad for these students because they have been taking classes and working for a future in dance for yrs and I'm going to have to take them back to the very beginning...learning how to pointe your feet properly, how to plie without sticking out your bum and to keep your knees straight on tendus and degages...etc.

It's like they've been wasting their time and their parents money for the past however many yrs and I just feel bad for them cause I know how much farther then have to go if they want to progress in dance at all.

ok this is just a random vent, but I just needed to get that out.

Thanks for 'listening' ;)

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criss cross?

2004-02-23T09:01:58Z

Howdy, I am not returning many hits online-so I come before you all today with my question of strings and silly things :) I have been taking ballet for fun for 2 years and just picked up a new pair of slippers, now my question is: What would be a disadvantage to criss crossing the elastic bands rather than simply the one across the ankle? To me it seems this would be ideal for holding the ankle snug, but if my logic were true...wouldn't everybody do this? So can anybody tell me which would be a better way of sewing on my elastics?

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break~in period

2004-02-23T08:58:32Z

when a dancer gets new pointe shoes...is there a break~in period or other technique that gets them adapted to the contours of the feet before theyre ready to work with full scale? Or is it right from shoe box to rosin box?

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