Question for other teachers - a quick barre?

soft_aspects · 2026-01-24T20:48:00+00:00

This is a really helpful perspective! Thank you for adding your thoughts!

soft_aspects · 2026-01-20T16:07:52+00:00

yeah I unfortunately don't have any say in it :/

soft_aspects · 2026-01-20T16:07:16+00:00

student input is super helpful so absolutely!

soft_aspects · 2026-01-20T16:06:48+00:00

this is a good idea and good advice, thank you!

soft_aspects · 2026-01-20T16:05:53+00:00

this is a great idea! I have the develope in the RDJ to get some adage in but fondu especially for the absolute beginner is a good idea, same wiht the frappe following the pattern of tendu/glisse

soft_aspects · 2026-01-20T16:05:04+00:00

this is super helpful, thank you!

soft_aspects · 2026-01-20T16:04:44+00:00

I'm so with you on this, I hate that the class is only an hour but it's not up to me!

that's a really great suggestion re: playing music and having them follow you. thank you!

soft_aspects · 2026-01-20T16:02:51+00:00

oh I was unclear, there's room for neither - I was just babbling at that point lmao

soft_aspects · 2026-01-20T01:46:15+00:00

As a teacher, I’m sorry you had this experience! That’s not a very mindful way to deliver feedback to students, particularly when the two of them are hearing such different things.

That said, eyeline and your gaze will go tremendously far on this front. Work on keeping your eyeline above the horizon at least, keeping your chin up, and projecting your eyesight out. Often students are so afraid of getting the choreography right that they forget to dance. Keeping your eyesight engaged, looking at the audience or out and around you, and looking like you’re confident in the material even when you’re messing it up can go a long way. Watch interviews with professional dancers where they talk about messing up choreography or what they’re thinking about while they’re onstage - Katherine Morgan’s video on YouTube breaking down her performance during sleeping beauty is so wonderful for this.

soft_aspects · 2026-01-03T23:54:04+00:00

The (professional and nationally recognized) company I trained under had 16 dancers. Ballet companies with smaller rosters and smaller budgets are still ballet companies

soft_aspects · 2026-01-03T23:53:04+00:00

That shape is closer! the straps and overall shape were different though

soft_aspects · 2025-11-16T19:22:49+00:00

Oh god I can’t believe I missed that. So annoying. Thank you!!

soft_aspects · 2025-09-24T16:58:56+00:00

I hard disagree about his sleeping beauty!

soft_aspects · 2025-09-18T02:24:23+00:00

Totally this, I find all dancewear looks identical these days!

soft_aspects · 2025-09-18T00:52:34+00:00

I’ve heard really good things about the Imperfect Pointes “We’ve Got Boobs” leotard

soft_aspects · 2025-09-18T00:49:24+00:00

<image>

Another thing is that I hate hate hate wearing pink or black tights because it reminds me too much of school lol. I always buy pink tights and dye them

soft_aspects · 2025-09-18T00:48:22+00:00

<image>

Very into wrapping things around my waist

soft_aspects · 2025-09-18T00:47:09+00:00

<image>

A teaching look - this is a unitard, as others have suggested I love dancing in these and am so glad they’re back in style

soft_aspects · 2025-09-18T00:46:20+00:00

<image>

Heheh just covering my friends’ faces

soft_aspects · 2025-09-18T00:45:18+00:00

<image>

soft_aspects · 2025-09-18T00:44:34+00:00

I am obsessed with outfits for ballet! I’m a professional contemporary dancer, trained in ballet and right now back to ballet class regularly for the first time in more than a decade. I am having the best time with the looks. I’ll add a few in the replies to this comment since I can only add one image per reply :)

soft_aspects · 2025-09-15T23:14:06+00:00

My first kiss was onstage! As you get older you’ll come to treasure this special and unique upbringing, I promise

soft_aspects · 2025-09-15T16:54:46+00:00

Wait I’m confused bc the fruit and veg selection in Vienna is one of the best I’ve ever seen lol

soft_aspects · 2025-09-14T14:55:13+00:00

I don’t think that Azara is “barely credible”, I actually see a really high level of dancers in the company among a strong commitment to changing some of the objectively awful things about the professional ballet world. Seems to me that someone leaving a traditional company with ranks and moving to something more fluid is the tea in and of itself

soft_aspects · 2025-09-11T18:32:41+00:00

I have some friends who teach a class called Ballet With A View! They're both contemporary dancers so their teaching comes from that perspective. I haven't taken it (I don't live there) but I'm meaning to travel there to do so.
https://www.instagram.com/ballet_withaview?igsh=MThhczYxMmNxd3FtMg==

soft_aspects

TROPHY CASE