“My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him.” Psalm 62:1 When I was dancing full-time, the best rest for me after a weekend of performing or a day of rehearsing included a heating pad on my back, feet up, and ice packs on my calves. I had to get off my…
“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.” Psalm 143:8 Warming up the body before any type of exercise is so important for preventing injuries. Warming up for a ballet…
“I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all people.” Luke 2:10 “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8 For a ballet dancer, feet are everything. The way we use them, shape them, angle them, take care of them, and pamper them…it’s all so…
“Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you.” Proverbs 4:25 One of the hardest things for me to NOT do when I am at the ballet barre is to not look down. For whatever reason, it’s comforting to look down at my feet as they are tenduing and rondejambing. :) It…
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.” Hebrews 10:23 As dancers, if we let go of our stomach muscles, we lose strength. It’s SO hard to hold in the abdominal muscles…to “lace them up” kind of like shoelaces…through the ribs and abs area…but it’s so key to…
“Let them praise His name with dancing…” Psalm 149:3 If there is one correction that I have received over the course of my dancing career the most it is this one… “DANCE BIG!” Or often times… “DANCE BIGGER!” It felt frustrating at times for me to hear that same correction over and over because there…