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Rupert Wiltshire
- May 18, 2018
- 4 min
50th Article and Mental Health Awareness Week... Becoming Coachable and Successful.
"Fear has a lot of Power... Fear is a Powerful thing... If you can figure out a way for Fear to be the thing that pushes you forward instead of holding you back, then you can become unstoppable..." Dr. Dre - The Chronic (1992) After a week of self-reflection and conversation with a wide variety of non-dance experts around the subject of mental health in Dance and, interestingly, enabling Dancers to become more confident in their ability focus their attention on the process of
Rupert Wiltshire
- May 13, 2018
- 3 min
Lets do Ballet Class Differently for a Change...?
I recognise I may come under some scrutiny for this viewpoint but thats ok... Lets begin some dialogue and discussion on this topic. I have had numerous conversations over the last week about dynamic stability and strategies that the body adopts in order to keep itself balanced. This has led me to entertain two big questions for Dancers and Dance Teachers. If you ask any Dance Teacher why they do Barre, they will tell you it aids to get a Dancer 'On their leg' before performi
Rupert Wiltshire
- May 8, 2018
- 4 min
Developing Leg Strength and How to Progress.
The myth of Strength training developing unwanted muscle mass for Dancers is becoming a somewhat historical phenomenon. So how does strength training work within the world of Dance. Dance More and You will be better and Dancing right? Well not necessarily, and I can understand that the last thing you might feel like doing, after removing your toe pads from the things your call feet, is lifting a weight or two. Generally speaking, a bigger barrier to initially starting strengt
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