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Being sincere about your body as a dancer....this is a HUGE component of how you move, protect and project your body as a dancer. As a dancer, we often find ourselves wanting to please a teacher, an audience member, a parent..but how much of you do you keep for you. The most beautiful dancers are the ones that live to dance first and foremost for themselves, these are the dancers that when you watch in class they have an aura about them....These are the dancers that have stayed true to themselves and respected what they hold in dance is a privilege. A simple port de bras is a narrative in itself...your arm movement from a first to 5th is literally telling how the beautiful artform came to be from the french courts in the 17th century. If you hold your work with that much narrative, the weight of what you do everyday becomes an exploration but every moment you will treasure more...this is what makes the difference between amaetur, student and professional...professionals carry the weight of history everytime they go on that stage, and everytime its an honour # # #

Legs up Monday!!

Huge thankyou to my beautiful students that came to my 8am ballet class today at sydney dance.
I was smiling so much on the inside as I saw many stronger backs, activated inside thighs and the beginings of the understanding of rotation with the femur bone vs the hip flexor. So much improvement in my regulars!
Proud teacher moment. Sending my thanks and gratitude for your continued support x

Another day, another show...only 2 more to go.

A simple 4th to go into the weekend...have a great weekend everyone!
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Go seize the day people!!!

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Teaching the beautiful during summer school last week.
Finding 2 points of balanced extension during her port de bras back. One point as an anchorage the other as a point of energetic expansion to open the chest and keep the spine lifted and elongated.
Always such a pleasure tecahing

Dancing is for anyone at any age. Start the new year the right way ! Wearing my Donatella Capezio pointe shoes as always :)
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Getting back into classes this week. Who else is feeling the holidays???!?!

Theatres....places for people to escape, to come together and for a moment believe in the largely impossible.
I'll never stop marveling at the sheer magic of these places and how they are able to transform the ordinary to extraordinary. Very grateful for the opportunity this summer to again help out at the Australian Ballet's Storytime Ballet. To all the cast and crew, bravo !