Resources - Tips Tools for Ballet Dancers and Teachers — ballet technique

Free Ballet Dancer Coloring Sheets available at StretchStrength.com. Delight your students and impress their parents with Ballet Color Pages that entertain and inform. Share the Vocabulary and Coloring sheet with your students to reinforce what you teach during class time. Just save the image below, print and share!  Arabesque (ah-rah-besk) Stand on one leg with the other leg extended behind you. Always remember to keep your back up and stretch your knees. It is important to keep both legs turned out! Be sure to Visit my home page to watch the video by Kathryn Morgan, former New York City Ballet dancer. She shows you...

 We had a lot of fun attending the Guinness World Records Event! Not enough ballerinas to set the world record, but it was a record for dancers standing "en pointe" for 2 minutes in KC! I'm super proud of all the dancers.  The dancers who tried the Ballet Feet Stretcher thought it was the best they had ever used!   

A wonderfully simple and cheap training tool to use for ballet, jazz and tap students.  Do you students struggle to hold their hands properly in first position, en bas or high 5th? Give each student one of these Chinese Finger Traps and watch how they magically hold their hands and arms in the correct position. Place the tool on their middle finger and instruct them to touch their thumb to the material.  Works great for younger and older Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern or Lyrical Dance students. ***If you use as a training aid to improve port de bras during pirouettes, be careful! They...