• Ballet Barre Class for Strength and Technique

    Join my Ballet Barre class for a challenging ballet workout that will supercharge your training! Ballet class is where you practice and learn technique, muscle memory and motor skills. However, if you’ve been following any of my other content, you will know that if you really want to progress your dancing, simply attending class regularly…

  • Foot Strength and Flexibility – FULL CLASS

    Foot strength and flexibility full class. This class will strengthen all of the muscles in your feet and ankles, as well as helping you improve your foot and ankle flexibility. This class is great if you want better ballet feet, if you are training for pointe work, pre-pointe, or are a beginner to intermediate pointe…

  • Foot strength: A better way to point into a theraband

    Without a doubt, the most common exercise recommended for improving foot strength is pointing into a theraband. While it’s not a bad exercise per se, it’s one of my least favorite exercises for feet and ankle strength. Why do I dislike this exercise so much? Well, mainly because it’s simply not very effective. It’s also…

  • Full Body Pilates Workout

    Get dance-ready strong and fit with this full body Pilates based workout!

  • Ballet Arms: Improve your Port a bras

    Ballet port a bras is one of the most captivating and iconically elegant aspect of ballet. Port a bras, translated as “carriage of the arms”, is an essential part of ballet technique, conveying emotions, expression, performance and artistry. Proper control of the arms is also essential for skills such as balance and pirouettes. Port a…

  • Pilates Class

    Pilates classes have been loved by dancers since Joseph Pilates introduced his classes to New York City in the 1930’s. Mr. Pilate’s methods were loved by the dance elite, including George Balanchine and Martha Graham, and his methods are still widely used in the dance elite today. Pilates is a great way to strength all…

  • Improve your Pirouettes and Turns

    Improve your pirouettes and turns with targeted strength and stability exercises. Performing perfect pirouettes and turns is a challenging feat. Perfectly executed turns require a combination of technique, skill, strength, balance and power. Technique is absolutely fundamental to executing proper turns and pirouettes. This involves proper body alignment, turning technique, spotting, and control and coordination…

  • Dance training tips: Quick workout for dancers Part 2

    Improve your dance technique, ballet technique and performance with this quick but super-effective strength training workout. Strengthen your core, improve your extensions to the front, improve your balance and more! Great for all levels – easily adaptable for beginner dancers, but you can really push yourself if you are a more experienced advanced dancer. These…

  • Dance training tips: Quick strength workout to improve your technique

    Improve your dance technique, ballet technique and performance with this quick but super-effective strength training workout. Strengthen your core, turn-out muscles, arabesque and more! Great for all levels – easily adaptable for beginner dancers, but you can really push yourself if you are a more experienced advanced dancer. If you are serious about improving your…

  • How to improve your Turnout

    Turnout is obviously a massive topic in ballet. One of my most commonly asked questions is “How can I improve my turnout?” Many ballet dancers force their hips and knees in an effort to achieve that coveted 180 degree turnout. Other dancers spend hours sitting in the frog stretch to try to increased their hip…

  • Ballet Arms – Quick tip exercise to improve your alignment in 2nd position

    Many ballet dancers struggle to maintain good alignment of their arms second position. We often get so focused on what our feet are doing or if we are maintaining our posture that arms can easily be forgotten. Maybe you start out with a lovely, rounded ballet arm in second, but by halfway through the exercise,…

  • Hamstring Flexibility Tips – How to break through a flexibility plateau

    Hamstring flexibility is, without a doubt, one of the most sought after goals in dance, circus, gymnastics, yoga, many areas of the fitness world, and even martial arts. While traditional, static stretching will improve hamstring flexibility to begin with, most people will hit a plateau. If you’ve been stretching for awhile, but not getting the…

  • Pre-pointe and beginner pointe strengthening exercises

    Pre-pointe exercises and beginner pointe training – Here are a collection of my top strength, control and stability exercises to get you ready for pointe work. These exercises are designed for students who have several years of ballet training and are actively working towards their first pair of pointe shoes. However, these exercise are also…

  • Floor Barre Workout

    I love floor barre. It’s a great low impact workout to strengthen your core, back and legs. As the name suggests, floor barre uses the principles of a traditional ballet barre, but lying or sitting on the floor. This change of position decreases the pull of gravity, which allows you to focus on your technique…

  • Improve your Développé to the Front and Side

    Here’s another one of my favourite exercises to improve your développé devant and a la seconde – and indeed any extensions, tilts, kicks, etc. If you’ve read any of my previous developpe tips, you’ll remember that the foundation for high extensions is strength in your Psoas major muscle. This is the main muscle responsible for…

  • Improve your ARABESQUE and extension to the back

    How do you improve your arabesque, attitude and extensions to the back? You need to train the strength in your lower back, glutes, and hamstrings, as well as control through your core. In this video, I demonstrate my favourite arabesque exercise. This exercise target all of the muscles at once, making it super time-efficient, perfect…

  • Turnout exercise – How to make the most of your turnout

    This is one of my top exercises for improving your ACTIVE TURNOUT control, or the ability to actually use your turnout while your dancing. It doesn’t matter how great your hip flexibility is if you don’t have the strength and control to use your turnout when your dancing! In this video, I will teach you…

  • Improve your turns and pirouettes

    Improve your pirouettes and turns with this exercise. This is a quick tip exercise to help you improve your balance and stability during turns and pirouettes. The most overlooked exercise for better turn and pirouettes is strength during rotational movements, which is exactly what this exercise works on! For a stable turn, and certainly to…

  • Quick foot exercise for strength, control and flexibility

    Foot strength and control are absolutely essential for all dancers and performing artists. Strength and control are super important to protect against foot and ankle pain or injury. Of course, if you are working towards pointe work, or currently doing pointe, then you need more strength and control to both succeed at pointe and prevent…

  • Balance training for dancers

    Balance training is a complex process that involves multiple feedback systems in the body. In order to stay balanced, our bodies use sensory input from our vision, touch, and vestibular systems, as well as motor feedback and output from the muscles of our bodies and eyes, and feedback from sensors in our joints. Balance training…