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MEA Weekend Dance Team Audition Prep Tip #3 Show Your Best Self

Are you ready? Many teams start a week long audition process tomorrow! Here are 5 tips to present your best self to that audition! Sleep. Prioritize sleep every night this week. It helps you learn faster, recovery faster, and bring your most energetic self forward. If you cannot sleep, stay in bed and visualize yourself performing clean technique and clear routines. Focus only on the present.…

MEA Weekend Dance Team Audition Prep Tip #2 Smarter Not Harder

Ready for more MEA Break Dance Team Audition Prep Tips? Tip #2: Work smarter, not harder With auditions next week, you are running out of hours to practice. Time to work smarter, not harder! You can accomplish this by selecting a focus for each time you run through a routine, kick set, turn set, or other element of your dance. Here are 5 examples: Focus only on full leg extension. Do you have…

Dancers, do you have your journal ready? Ready to discover how to use your summer camp experiences this fall? I still have my journal that I started at age 7. It’s over 3 decades old, and the learning moments keep expanding. I’ll show you how to start your own dance learning journal today. Today’s dance journal assignment: Set a timer for 3 minutes Make a list of key words that you remember from…

Did you attend a summer dance camp, workshop, or intensive? School is back in session! The thought of summer might already be long gone. Maybe you attended a dance camp or summer dance intensive. Do you remember what you learned? There’s a good chance the choreography might have been forgotten. That’s OK. One of the goals of summer dance camp is to make you a better dancer. This means being able…