Author: Julia Wigham
Article:
A gift for a dance instructor. A fun project for your child who
has a love of dance. A way to decorate a child's room. With a
ballet cross stitch motif, you'll find a great way to combine a
love for cross stitching with a love for ballet dancing.
Many different designs and themes exist when it comes to ballet
cross stitch. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or
advanced cross stitcher, you can find patterns and graphs online
that perfectly suit your tastes and skill level.
It is always hard to find a unique gift for a ballet teacher,
but creating something special for a holiday, recital, birthday
or for no reason at all is a great way to show appreciation to
the work they've done for your child. Your ballet cross stitch
is something the teacher will keep and cherish.
For the teacher who has younger students, consider creating a
design with children ballerinas. You could also choose pink
ballet slippers, or a ballerina putting on her shoes. Don't
forget to say "thank you" by including a personal message or
quote about dancing. Remember, too, to stitch the date the gift
is given on the completed piece.
Allow your child to choose just the right cross stitch pattern
for the teacher's gift, even if there's no occasion for a gift.
With your guidance, you can help your child learn to love cross
stitching as much as she loves dancing. Taking the time to cross
stitch together will strengthen your relationship as well as
give you an opportunity to teach something that's meaningful to
you.
If your daughter wants ballet decorations in her room, there's
no end to the choices available to you. And cross stitch
projects you've made will fill her room with love. Using the
word "ballet" in an acrostic would be unique to go along with
dancers in different poses. Whatever you choose together, your
daughter will enjoy spending time in her ballet themed room.
Combining hobbies with ballet cross stitch motifs are a great
way to get your child involved in two different activities and
teach them to display an appreciation for dance. The items can
then be used as extra special dcor or great gifts.
About the author:
Julia Wigham is an experienced writer and co-founder of Patterns
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The Ballet Stores, Pointe Shoe Stores, Ballet Schools and
Author: Dianne M. Buxton
Article:
What could ballet stores offer a serious student that would help
her/him work hard and develop a healthy perspective? Healthy
eating, weight loss or gain, and strength building all
contribute to a good dance technique. Getting exactly the right
fit in pointe shoes and ballet wear, is important too. Above
all, information.
When studying a fine art, discipline and perfectionism are not
the same thing. The talent and charisma of a performer must be
matched with physical abilities such as voice, aural perception,
rhythm, overall physique, and 'the right' looks. When it comes
to ballet, there are many detailed physical proportions,
flexibility requirements, general health necessities, and
psychological endurance needs to be factored in to a successful
training period and subsequent career.
Some students with a genetic predisposition to an eating
disorder or a tendency to perfectionism will choose ballet to
fullfill the attraction to a type of behaviour. Unhealthy
behaviour is not necessarily built in to the field of ballet,
although some studios or individual teachers may contribute to
an atmosphere of excess when it comes to weight loss or
obsessive practise over details that take years to fine tune.
Fortunately, there is more awareness now about eating disorders
and neurotic perfectionism. If it's not a family behaviour,
parents will notice. Anorexia results in hospitalization to
ensure survival, followed by years or life long therapy.
Fierce competition among children is extremely stressful. The
favoured and more able students may feel isolated. It's not
their fault they are better or more physically prepared to do
ballet! And the less talented have to make hard decisions at a
young age. Should they stick with the art they love to play
supporting roles with no expectation of reaching the top? Or
should they go into another art form that is less demanding in
some way?
Sometimes the parents decide for a child. If the guiding
opinions do not support that a child will make it to the top of
the field, often parents don't see the point of the gruelling
training, or expense that may infringe on the whole family.
Luckily, many dancers grow up and become professionals in other
professions, but their love of dance leads them to refer back to
dancers in their practices. Whether they end up in dance
medicine or psychology, they reach out to young dancers with
information and education. I chanced upon the article below and
felt compelled to point it out.
..."Eating disorders are more common among female dancers than
among the general population, but many factors can contribute to
the higher prevalence..." By Elizabeth Cooney Worcester TELEGRAM
& GAZETTE STAFF. The entire article can be read at
http://www.telegram.com/article/20071224/NEWS/712240378/1012
For more on all of the above go
About the author:
Dianne M. Buxton is a graduate of the National Ballet School of
Canada. She taught at, and choreographed for The National Ballet
School, York University, and George Brown College, in Canada,
and taught at Harvard University in the U.S.
shoes, pointe shoes, pre-pointe exercises, getting exactly the
right fit, dance books, ballet forum,diet and health for
dancers,DVD's and more.
Article:
What could ballet stores offer a serious student that would help
her/him work hard and develop a healthy perspective? Healthy
eating, weight loss or gain, and strength building all
contribute to a good dance technique. Getting exactly the right
fit in pointe shoes and ballet wear, is important too. Above
all, information.
When studying a fine art, discipline and perfectionism are not
the same thing. The talent and charisma of a performer must be
matched with physical abilities such as voice, aural perception,
rhythm, overall physique, and 'the right' looks. When it comes
to ballet, there are many detailed physical proportions,
flexibility requirements, general health necessities, and
psychological endurance needs to be factored in to a successful
training period and subsequent career.
Some students with a genetic predisposition to an eating
disorder or a tendency to perfectionism will choose ballet to
fullfill the attraction to a type of behaviour. Unhealthy
behaviour is not necessarily built in to the field of ballet,
although some studios or individual teachers may contribute to
an atmosphere of excess when it comes to weight loss or
obsessive practise over details that take years to fine tune.
Fortunately, there is more awareness now about eating disorders
and neurotic perfectionism. If it's not a family behaviour,
parents will notice. Anorexia results in hospitalization to
ensure survival, followed by years or life long therapy.
Fierce competition among children is extremely stressful. The
favoured and more able students may feel isolated. It's not
their fault they are better or more physically prepared to do
ballet! And the less talented have to make hard decisions at a
young age. Should they stick with the art they love to play
supporting roles with no expectation of reaching the top? Or
should they go into another art form that is less demanding in
some way?
Sometimes the parents decide for a child. If the guiding
opinions do not support that a child will make it to the top of
the field, often parents don't see the point of the gruelling
training, or expense that may infringe on the whole family.
Luckily, many dancers grow up and become professionals in other
professions, but their love of dance leads them to refer back to
dancers in their practices. Whether they end up in dance
medicine or psychology, they reach out to young dancers with
information and education. I chanced upon the article below and
felt compelled to point it out.
..."Eating disorders are more common among female dancers than
among the general population, but many factors can contribute to
the higher prevalence..." By Elizabeth Cooney Worcester TELEGRAM
& GAZETTE STAFF. The entire article can be read at
http://www.telegram.com/article/20071224/NEWS/712240378/1012
For more on all of the above go
About the author:
Dianne M. Buxton is a graduate of the National Ballet School of
Canada. She taught at, and choreographed for The National Ballet
School, York University, and George Brown College, in Canada,
and taught at Harvard University in the U.S.
shoes, pointe shoes, pre-pointe exercises, getting exactly the
right fit, dance books, ballet forum,diet and health for
dancers,DVD's and more.
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