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Dear dance gods

Dear dance gods, I am writing to you today, as the wonderful and expansive step vocabulary that you gifted our artform seems to be drowning in a sea of crotch shots and badly placed spins that once resembled a fouette pirouette.

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Land Like a Dancer

NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (HCDI) performed a study on the biomechanics of jump landing, comparing athletes and dancers to learn more about the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in both groups.

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Land Like a Dancer

NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (HCDI) performed a study on the biomechanics of jump landing, comparing athletes and dancers to learn more about the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in both groups.

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My Beginner Pointe VMO Exercise

My Beginner Pointe VMO Exercise with point through demi pointe

 

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Qld Ballet’s Backstage videos

Queensland Ballet goes Backstage with Royal Ballet Principal Steven McRae.

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How to glue your pointe shoes to make them last longer

In this video Lisa explains how to glue your pointe shoes to make them last longer! You can do this by strengthening the shank of your pointe shoe to stop it from breaking down too quickly. This can drastically extend the life of your pointe shoe saving you lots of money!!

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Wondering how to put together an audition video?

Despite every ballet dancer’s perfectionist tendencies, there is no such thing as “perfect technique”. But in his audition tape for the Paris Opéra Ballet School, David Hallberg proves that it just may exist

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Another terrific training exercise from Marie Walton Mahon

Students often find it difficult to find the deep rotators that assist to initiate the control from an arabesque into a passé.

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How many pointe shoes

In The Spotlight With Juliet Burnett

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REVIEW Dance Australia

Undoubtedly Queensland Ballet Artistic Director Li Cunxin is a man who dares to dream big. His desire to be the first in Australia to mount a production of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet,

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