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22/12/2025

arrow armpits ⬇️

✏️ For correcting lifted shoulders
✏️ Glide your armpits (lats) down & back gently!
✏️ I like using my hands - With consent & feeling their lats slide down
✏️ There’s really no age too young or old for this!

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22/12/2025

spiral arms

💖 for strong arms in second
💖 Imagine humerus Rotating in + forearm rotating out!
💖 There’s really no age too young or old for this!

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22/12/2025

CORE POSTERS🥳

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22/12/2025

ARM TIPS!! 🚨

✅ Gentle pencil between shoulder blades
✅ “Spread your wingspan from left to right fingertip” (Franklin, 2013).
✅ Imagine all arms emanating from your core
✅ Arrow armpits - glide lats down gently
✅ Sparkle Fingers - Release sparkles into space

📒 Franklin. (2013). Dance imagery for technique and performance. 2nd, rev. ed. Human Kinetics.

22/12/2025

The harsh truth... 👀

✅ Class isn't enough
✅ Just because you see flashy exercises & stretches doesn't mean it's safe
✅ This is why it's important to supplement with cross training which has been shown to fill gaps in dancers' training.
✅ A properly designed cross training can help mitigate these imbalances while improving dance technique.

Great accounts to follow regarding Strength Training for Dancers:
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📲 .barbell.ballerina

References
📁 Dowse, R. A., Mcguigan, M. R., & Harrison, C. (2020). Effects of a resistance training intervention on strength, power, and performance in adolescent dancers. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 34(12), 3446–3453. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000002288
📁 Koutedakis, Y., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, A., & Metsios, G. (2005). The Significance of Muscular Strength in Dance. Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, 9(1).

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21/12/2025

COUPE JETES

🧠 leap does not loop. it darts
🧠 posture tall & Arm in front of nose
🧠 coupe turn in deep plie
🧠 push off back pinky toe

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21/12/2025

The positives/negatives of mirrors 🪞⬇️

Quick Summary:
🔍 Immediate Visual feedback for dancers
🔍 Teachers - Allows Teachers to see many students at once & demonstrate material efficiently
🔍 Dancers can become too focused on the reflection they see, which can lead to self-consciousness (IADMS Resource Paper).
🔍 Can be a crutch which may limit kinaesthetic awareness
🔍 "Teachers are encouraged to think broadly/deeply about their methods & explore alternate methods of what the mirror offers. Without it, dancers can focus on their proprioceptive learning & the sensation in their bodies, keeping them in their bodies which is what is needed for feeling good about themselves & for optimum technical advancement" (IADMS Resource Paper).
🔍 "Removing the mirror allows dancers to focus on their internal kinaesthetic feedback" (IADMS Resource Paper).
🔍 "If they use it too much without developing other sensory systems, they may see detriments when without it. It can become a “crutch” which inhibits kinaesthetic sensibilities" (IADMS Resource Paper).

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21/12/2025

Rainbow toes 🌈

🩷 Imagine “Creating a long rainbow shape with your foot!”
🩷 Anatomical Purpose - Simple & fun way to teach pointing the foot
🩷 Helpful for all ages
🩷 Could be a fun way to teach dancers anatomy about making a long rainbow shape with the foot, not a crunched one!

ARE YOU A LOVER OF IMAGERY LIKE ME?
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21/12/2025

HIP STABILITY ✅

✔️ Single-Leg Control
✔️ Proprioception & Balance
✔️ Knee-Foot Alignment
✔️ Stability of the trunk & core
✔️ Glute Strength

A few cues to increase your success
⭐️ Legs parallel as if on 2 railroad tracks
⭐️ Try integrating a consistent rhythm such as down 1, 2, 3 + up 1, 2, 3
⭐️ Tap front, side, back
⭐️ Then up to passe and can add a balance

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20/12/2025

Turnout DISCS... 🤔

⭐️Place stickers on Greater Trochanters to ensure femurs are rotating in hip socket
⭐️ I call these their stickers, then I say wrap your stickers back and down in a V shape
⭐️ I also created Hello Kind Friends - to remember the order of turnout - hips, knees, then feet
⭐️ Disks can be perfectly safe if taught by a qualified professional, not a dancer alone

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20/12/2025

SISSONE TIPS 😀

✅ Side Ones - Travel towards front foot & change feet (if they’re traveling forward)
✅ Push off 2 feet, land on one foot
✅ Side Ones - Shoot foot like a side degage with sticker heel to audience
✅ Hit your best 5th with heel to big toe & best posture
✅ Bellybutton to front, no twisting hips
✅ Clean path of arms, no swimming, no flinging, no throwing

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20/12/2025

YELLING vs LOUD VOICE? 🗣️

✅ Using a strong & expressive teaching voice is different from yelling.
✅ I think it's important for us to explain the difference between these two

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