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Dance Gifts: Good Gift Ideas for Dancers

Any time a dancer celebrates her birthday, Christmas or a successful dance recital or competition, she loves to receive dance gifts that she can use. If you are trying to find a dance gift for a female dancer, you may be scratching your head and wondering what she would consider a good dance gift. Fortunately, ...

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Information about Toe Tap Dance Style

Toe Tap is a style of dance that is performed on the tips of your toes, in hard shank pointe or ballet shoes with metal plates on them. It is not performed very much anymore, but it has been around since the early 1900s. It originated during the days of vaudville and was a way ...

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The Mexican Hat Dance

The Mexican Hat Dance, which is also called Jarabe Tapatio, has been the national dance of Mexico since 1924. The actual music the accompanies the hat dance was composed in the 1800’s by a professor of music named Jesus Gonzales Rubio and is a medley known as a jarabe. Rubio ran his own private school ...

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Messy Dance Bags: How to Keep Them Organized

A common problem faced by dancers all over the world is having disorganized dance bags. Worrying about ballet bags may seem like a silly concern, but a messy dance bag can actually cause you a lot of problems. For one, thing, it is really annoying to lug around a huge ballet bag, and can be ...

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How to Take Up Ballet as an Adult or Older Teen

At some point in their lives most girls desire to put on a frilly tutu, lace up ribbons and whirl the gracelful dance of ballet. Maybe they practice in their living rooms, or take lessons for awhile, but most do nothing, going about their lives and getting wistful thoughts whenever the ballet comes into town, ...

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Pointe Shoes for the High Arched Foot

Ballet dancers with flat feet often envy those with high arches and with good reason: it is a lot easier to get over the box of your pointe shoes if you have a high arch. But while a high arched foot can be a good thing for ballet dancers, it can pose problems of its ...

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Guide to Ballet Dancewear

It is important to dress appropriately for your ballet class-not wearing the correct ballet dancewear shows a lack of respect for the teacher, the class and the art of ballet. If you go to class without wearing appropriate ballet clothes, you will be effectively demonstrating how you aren’t serious about improving your ballet technique. The ...