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Sweet Exchange with a Sugar Plum Fairy
Ballet: In the Upper Room; Choreographer: Twyla Tharp; Dancer(s): Elise Judson, Emily Bowen & Artists of H

Keeping Rhythm Fascinatin’ — How to Make Tap Dance Come Alive
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Columnists Today, I’m proud to introduce our new columnist, Sarah Mason! Sarah brings a wealth of experience as a dance educator, ensemble director, and  tap dancer to Dance Advantage and will be a regular contributor to the blog. Read on, and I know you’ll be as excited as I am to welcome her to Dance Advantage. Look for Sarah’s TAPography articles to appear bimonthly. -Nichelle

Families Move “Up, Down, & All Around”
As a dance teacher and a stay-at-home mom, I love to make music and movement with my little one part of our daily routine. Stacey Pepper Schwartz is a dance educator and a mom too. With sensitivity and recognition that not all parents feel prepared to facilitate movement experiences with their children at home, she has created a new  DVD, Up, Down, & All Around that guides viewers of all ages through an interactive experience with creative dance. The video embraces the precepts that anyone with a willing spirit and willing bo

Stretching Safely for Splits
Can you do “the splits?” Image via Wikipedia Splits are a topic on most young dancers’ minds. I know when I was a student the ability to sit in a split seemed pretty important. Of course, flexibility and range of motion are certainly fundamental elements in dance. However, when it comes to stret

Listening to Dance — An Exercise in Viewing Art
Image by jasoneppink via Flickr I’d like to have you try a short exercise. Look over the questions/suggestions below: Do any images or pictures come to your mind? What are they? Does the song cause remembrances of something, someone, or somewhere? If so, what? In what environment, if any, does the music