ALL Things ACRO

When your strength training pays off…

Rolling into the weekend …

Rolling into the weekend….
Need a new challenge? Bounce your backspring right back up, Arabian tuck to handstand 1/2 turn to plank.

Struggling to freeze your forearm stand?
Walk it up first. Lift one leg and tap until you feel that float feeling. Squeeze your glutes and your core. Once you have found your balance start playing with shapes.

Dancer: Emma

Flipping into Thursday after an incredible Trade Show at Dance Teacher Expo, thanks to everyone that dropped by!

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Dancer: Rythum Dance Plus

New week new variation! Try this simple but fun knee scale variation of the week featuring ATA’girl Victoria.

Flipping out because we’re in Toronto for Dance Teacher Expo! Try this unique combo variation

AcroDance cartwheels end square. There is seems to be some confusion about this topic. Let’s analayze. As you see from this teen here, when the dancer lands the cartwheel the alignment is square, knee over toe, foot completely on the line tracking square. Once it’s landed, and only once it’s fully tracking then the dancer plies and transfers to face the front. Why do the transfer? To maintain performance projection, to engage with the audience. Contrasted that to gymnastics where the audience is stadium seating and choreography is pleasing from all four directions. Dance isn’t viewed from the back. We have to reconnect right away. The confusion is that sometimes we see dancers rotating too soon to plie and transfer and it seems like we end facing front. That is not correct. Looking at this younger dancer we can see a micro adjustment off square here, she hasn’t landed fully square before transferring. So we’ll work to make sure that alignment is clear particularly before moving into aerials. Looking back at the teen we can clearly see, this is square. We land cartwheels square and then and only then, do we transfer forward to project.

Summer camp crafts!