Tag: turning

Do you regularly see your students in the corner of the studio practicing pirouettes again and again (perhaps repeating the same mistakes)? Do they push to increase their turning ability but end up frustrated? Dancers dream of having the capacity to perform multiple turns with ease, but achieving this can be a struggle. Fortunately, there […]

In this week’s mind-blowing news, a study published in Cerebral Cortex shows it’s more than snappy spotting that keeps dancers spinning like tops without getting dizzy. It’s also science. Dancers’ brains, it seems, actually function differently than nondancers’, making it easier for ballerinas to whip through 32 fouettés at a time. To test the theory, […]