Tag: Artistry

5 Ways to Get Down Daily – how to build a habit of creative dance

Post author By Blythe Stephens
Post date 24. April 2023
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The following bite-sized movement explorations can help build a habit of joyful exploratory movement and creative expression. Originally created in celebration of National Dance Week, you may use these five prompts and responses to inspire your own improvisation and choreographic research anytime!

We will develop a joyful daily creative dance practice that is accessible to a variety of abilities and experience levels and achievable in minutes a day. Be amazed at the far-reaching impacts such a practice can have in your life.

Balletlicious Building Blocks of Dance 7-Day Free Virtual Challenge

Post author By Blythe Stephens
Post date 25. July 2022
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Dance theorists identify 7 basic movements of ballet or classical dance technique, and we can see these essential building blocks at play in every ballet pas, step, or movement. I’m excited to announce that around these 7 essentials, I’ve designed a free summer dance challenge to begin or continue your ballet journey, and you […]

Humor and Wisdom from the Multi-Passionate Dancing Life of Matthew Donnell

Post author By Blythe Stephens
Post date 15. January 2022
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A delightful conversation with fellow dance educator and UNCSA alumnus as well as super-talented and wonderful guy, Matthew Donnell! We talk about the highs and lows of being a multi-passionate jack-of-all-trades, his highlights as a professional ballet dancer, how to fall down and get back up again, the importance of révérence, character dance, and technique variety in ballet training, developing character in dancers and human beings, serving our communities, helping dancers find their voice, and assert that all people are valuable!

Rollercoaster of Dance: Traveling Through Undercurve & Overcurve Pathways

Post author By Blythe Stephens
Post date 19. June 2021
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Like an exhilarating ride on a rollercoaster, or if you prefer, a wave, dancers ascend and descend, sink, scoop, and rise, following or leaving a pathway in space. It can be quite a thrill even at a low level of risk! Our clarity about the described pathway in space, whether it be an scooping undercurve […]