Dancing en pointe for the first time is very exciting. However, wearing perfect fitting pointe shoes is essential to avoid injury. Finding pointe shoes that are the right size and support the dancer’s particular anatomy is imperative. Therefore, I advise all dancers to go…

The seven movements of dancing provide fundamental dance terminology for beginning students. Plier describes the motion of flexing the knee or knees. The dancer rises to the balls of the feet and moves into demi-pointe. The dancer performs a motion that glides across the…