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How Dancers Actually Learn: The Practice Methods That Work, and the Ones That Do Not

What the science of motor learning says about dance practice: what holds up, what is only studio folklore, and what to change in your next class.

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The Styles of Ballet in South Africa: A Dancer's Guide to the Methods and Syllabi

RAD, Cecchetti, DASA, Vaganova: what South Africa's ballet methods and syllabi are, how they differ, and how to choose the one that fits what you want.

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The quiet rise of the producer-performer

More artists are owning the means of staging their own work.

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Festival funding shifts toward year-round programming

The grant logic is changing, and programmers are following it.

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A choreographer on building work that travels

Notes on making dance that survives the move from studio to stage.

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Backstage tech that audiences never notice

The unglamorous systems holding a modern production together.

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Why touring circuits are rethinking mid-size halls

Operators weigh economics against the rooms that built careers.

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How Dancers Actually Learn: The Practice Methods That Work, and the Ones That Do Not

What the science of motor learning says about dance practice: what holds up, what is only studio folklore, and what to change in your next class.

21 min read 4 168 words

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CC BY-SA 2.0

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The Styles of Ballet in South Africa: A Dancer's Guide to the Methods and Syllabi

RAD, Cecchetti, DASA, Vaganova: what South Africa's ballet methods and syllabi are, how they differ, and how to choose the one that fits what you want.

14 min read 2 757 words

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The quiet rise of the producer-performer

More artists are owning the means of staging their own work.

All rights reserved

News

Festival funding shifts toward year-round programming

The grant logic is changing, and programmers are following it.

All rights reserved