How do you create emotion when you dance? To truly engage your audience in your performance you must evoke emotion within them. Joy, elation, sadness empathy can all be conveyed through your movement, but first you must tell a story. As dancers we are telling a story through our performance, we must take our audience on a journey through our story to feel our emotion. In season 2 of @nbcworldofdance we saw @charityandandres tell the story of a passion fuelled, destructive rel
Pushed for practice time? Need to make the best use of your rehearsals? We all know that dance practice time is precious, and sometimes there just isn’t enough time to rehearse as much as we want. Therefore we need to make the most efficient use of the time we do have to practice. Here are 5 top tips to help you maximise your practice time: 1) Pick your peak energy times – all our body clocks are slightly different, but if you fall into the ‘average’ category of getting up
Why are dancers more sexually attractive? As humans we automatically feel the need to procreate and reproduce, but first we need to find a mate, in some cultures dance is often part of the mating ritual. But why? As we dance we can show the visual aesthetics and symmetry of our bodies and muscular structure as it moves through the ranges of motion in the dance. Good dancers are often considered to have more symmetry in their bodies. This is often because they have trained and