“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…
“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.” Ephesians 3:18 For a ballet dancer, plié is probably THE most important movement. Plie is simply bending the knees. It can be…
Many of you reading this are ballet dancers, were dancers, or simply…love dance. But the more I learn about you all, the more I learn that many of you are not ballet dancers, were not dancers, or simply…aren’t really into dance…And that’s okay! In fact, I love the variety of sweet hearts we have…