Movin Easy

Where are dancers going at SXSW? I have a serious problem with venues without dance floors. And I love it when local dancers go out and show the total variety of what dance is from Tap to Flamenco and Contact Improvisation, along with the social and ballroom dances...

@Ballet Afriquehttp://bit.ly/dCHA0J see the pulse of Austin giving life blood to African American dance

Superbrain Yoga exercise is dance. http://homeopathyplus.com.au/superbrain.html Improves memory and brain function by using a simple crossing of the midline and a plie. Dancing daily uses both principles in a variety of ways affecting even more areas of the brain.

What isit abouttouch in a couples dance?So exciting to see a couple who really touch in their dance, something about the total pleasureof a signal given and received. The touch can be gentle or firm, sharp or smooth, a lead or a follow...

We went through an “I don’t want to go phase.” What do you do to keep Mary excited about dance? “What I do for my Mary is I watch her class and make specific comments about what I liked and what she did well. I might even ask her to show me how to do a [...]

Best thing about going to dance class with my Tiger Lily(7) is the help I get from the Mom’s and Dad’s to support little dancers. I learn so much about how to encourage Tiger Lily, how to build on her excitement about dance, how to deal with the times when she is discouraged, and how [...]

Ballet Austin Promotion Rocks, now the Austin Swizzle team joins them for more high powered heat. http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2010/02/22/daily55.html

“Movin Easy is such a great store. I got my things there when I was growing up and now my daughter and I shop there.” Thanks to all the Mom’s and Dad’s who have a great experience shopping with us. http://www.movineasy.com

Children’s dance team auditions, astounding @DanceDiscovery where even five year olds remember the routines? And my Miss Tiger Lily is 7 and so exuberant. ...

Visited Mr. Man’s 2nd grade PE. Elementary PE is with it, now incorporating elements of dance to encourage students. They get a larger vocabulary of movement and get to move to music. ...

The dancer is the explorer when it comes to the infinite ways to leave the ground and come back down with ease. Their study is the principles of gravity and momentum. Educating their feet is a primary concern, how their feet touch the ground...

Dance shoes are designed to help explore how the feet touch the ground. The common phrase that dancer’s use is. “I can feel the floor better with this shoe.” A dancer spends years training their feet to sense the tiniest change of balance to feel every part of the foot as it meets the floor. For ...

Why do some dancers use shoes and some go barefoot? The choice has to do with the amount of friction needed and how the dancer wants to feel the floor. Each dancer has their goal of the kind of feedback they want from the way their feet meet the floor. And for different styles of [...]

What’s education without the arts? Early childhood education is interesting, involving, and full of immediate feedback. Exploration is the essential ingredient and the arts play an important role. It is true, education is learning languages. ...