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Baby don't procrastinate! Miah, the least qualified dance major in the world to run a dance blog.

[theclassydancer]

My favorite online yoga instructor is doing a new series!!!

Yaaaaaas I am so happy!

This lady is so sweet and kind and knows what she’s talking about.

If you’re looking for yoga that will encourage mindfulness and gentle strengthening without babying you look no further my dudes

[wrongdejambes]

does it ever just hit you how amazing your ballet teachers are? how they have devoted their lives to their craft as well as yours. though it may not always seem like it, they care about us so much. we look up to them and respect them and care about them too. they give us the tools to pursue what we love. what more could we, as students, ask for? 

[a-folchart]

“creativity is a feminine modality”

[theclassydancer]

Ahhhhhhhhh ok, ok this is so beautiful and I love everything about it????

[chamaland]

compagniepulsart Dancing in Görlitzer Park / Berlin. 4 dancers, 2 are in flesh, 2 are in plastic. Film by @celineka3 

[theclassydancer]

I made this to turn in as my final project when I got a concussion and was not allowed to move for like a few weeks.

I’m pretty proud of it, I had some of my friends dance around for me. So it’s got a lot of improvisational work and a lot of each of their voices really shine through in the final cut. (They’re both fantastic artists and I love them) anyway!

A behind the scenes video is to come but for now! Feast your eyes!

[hufflepuffwannabe]

stop scrolling pls :D

Take a second to say something nice about yourself. Out loud. Or write it down. Reblog, and put it in the tags. The world is a heavy place right now. Let’s not let it get any heavier.

[violaboss]

I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)

stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

also, thank you to viola-ology and iwillsavemyworld for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!

[studyinginfonts]

This list is so good I wanna cry

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Reblogging for reference. 

I may make suggestions after I go back and listen to favorites, to see which category I think they belong in.

[stoplookingup]

“And if you really just hate classical music in general 4’33” (Cage)”

I was not expecting a punchline!

[iwontdancenetwork]

Street Dance Legend: Mr. Wiggles, giving some dance knowledge.

[annesmiless]

Some eaiser variations of push ups to help you build the strength to do a traditional one!

[o-lascaux-o]

I was always frustrated how my P.E. teachers wanted all of us to go “all-or-none” and basically hurt ourselves without letting us build up from square-one like in the first gif.  Then they’d fuckin yell at us for not doing it right >:|

Knee-pushups is not square-one.

[arkilliandragon]

When I got my first personal trainer, she had me doing push ups almost standing upright in the weight lifting bars so that I could do 15 reps and 3 sets of them. It’s more about the technique of the push up, and if you’re pushing too much weight, you can’t exersize the correct muscles within their tolerances. This post is pretty important to know cause of that.

[chronicillnessmemes]

I’m reblogging this here because as someone who spends almost the entire day on bedrest, it is incredibly difficult to find exercises I can do at my strength level. Please ignore this if it is not for you. I know that exercise is not for everyone or every illness.

[fuckingconversations]

Loads of reps of something gentle can work your muscles pretty hardcore if you do enough of them. 

Part of intro to P90X (DEATH TRAINING) is just standing, making a fist with each hand, holding your arms perpendicular to your body (like a kid ‘flying’ around as an airplane) and then moving your arms in tight circles for a minute, then reversing direction of the circles for a minute, then doing BIG, slow circles for a minute, then repeating the reversed version that.  Like, full ‘60 seconds’ ‘minute’ 

At first its like ‘lol just my arms whatever I can do this all day’ and then it turns into ‘omg my arms are going to fall off this is terrible gravity plz no’

Also, water bottles can serve as light dumbells for gentle repetitive lifting (bro do you even lift) if you don’t want to dump cash into exercising. Having a bit of air in the bottle will help your forearm no matter what you do, as you try to keep it steady.

Laying on your back and lifting one leg up - just keeping it hovering over the ground with your toe pointed can work your abs. Hovering both legs at the same time is harder. Hovering both legs while making little ‘swimming kicks’ is stupid and i hate it hard. 

Hell, even just tensing your abs and keeping them tensed for periods during the day will work them - no need to flail around a ton, or set aside a bunch of time for it. 

[kyojurotchi]

me @ me

[theclassydancer]

I HAVE NEVER FELT ANYTHING SO DEEPLY IN MY SOUL DJDUDJS XYDJYDF SONATA HELP @musicintheskye

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Ballet explores legacy of residential schools

Truth and Reconciliation Commission endorsed the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s powerful new work, Going Home Star

[theclassydancer]

The Boarding School Genocide was one of the worst things to have happened on this continent.

And Canada is not the only country at fault.

[theclassydancer]

For all my followers with a vagina

Ok so my period is taking its sweet time ACTUALLY starting, but I can feel it a-brewing and let me tell you this fashionably late motherfucker is getting ready to wreck my life hard.

So I got out my magic YouTube box and started looking for a period yoga video, and believe you me, there’s a bunch.

But the one I followed today is here

But here’s one by Adrine, the same lady who Im following somewhat religiously

One that’s fourty minutes long with a SUUUUPER bubbly yogi

One meant to be done from your own bed!!!

And saving the best for last, here’s a video where yoga Guru Hansaji walks us through a healthy mindset for our beautiful bleeding bodies

[balletroyale]

Tiler Peck in Tckaikovsky Pas de Deux, New York City Ballet

[theclassydancer]

Ok guys, story time. I’ve decided that this summer I’m going to try and do yoga as much as possible, while also keeping up with my very physically intense job and active life. So I stared doing this thirty day challenge and I figured that if I spread it out and listen to my body I should be able to strengthen myself without killing myself completely. So I stared doing morning yoga at seven O’ clock and it made my day feel pretty stellar Until day two. I collapsed halfway through and couldn’t continue and felt like a massive failure. And I was sore for 42 hours after. Three days later I had the itch to try again and do some yoga and I decided that I would do day two’s video again, just to see how far I could get. I did pause halfway through to check in with myself and drink some water, but I made it all the way through. Now I’m laying on my May sharing my joy with all you lovely folks (not to mention feeling like a total badass)

[teded]

The physics of the "hardest move" in ballet

In the third act of “Swan Lake”, the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly endless series of turns, bobbing up and down on one pointed foot and spinning around and around and around … thirty-two times. It’s one of the toughest sequences in ballet, and for those thirty seconds or so, she’s like a human top in perpetual motion. 

Those spectacular turns are called fouettés, which means “whipped” in French, describing the dancer’s incredible ability to whip around without stopping. But while we’re marveling at the fouetté, can we unravel its physics? 

The dancer starts the fouetté by pushing off with her foot to generate torque. But the hard part is maintaining the rotation. As she turns, friction between her pointe shoe and the floor, and somewhat between her body and the air, reduces her momentum. So how does she keep turning? Between each turn, the dancer pauses for a split second and faces the audience. Her supporting foot flattens, and then twists as it rises back onto pointe, pushing against the floor to generate a tiny amount of new torque.

At the same time, her arms sweep open to help her keep her balance. The turns are most effective if her center of gravity stays constant, and a skilled dancer will be able to keep her turning axis vertical.

The extended arms and torque-generating foot both help drive the fouetté. But the real secret and the reason you hardly notice the pause is that her other leg never stops moving. During her momentary pause, the dancer’s elevated leg straightens and moves from the front to the side, before it folds back into her knee.

By staying in motion, that leg is storing some of the momentum of the turn. When the leg comes back in towards the body, that stored momentum gets transferred back to the dancer’s body, propelling her around as she rises back onto pointe.

As the ballerina extends and retracts her leg with each turn, momentum travels back and forth between leg and body, keeping her in motion. 

In Tchaikovsky’s ballet, the Black Swan is a sorceress, and her 32 captivating fouettés do seem almost supernatural. But it’s not magic that makes them possible. It’s physics.

From the TED-Ed Lesson The physics of the “hardest move” in ballet - Arleen Sugano 

Animation by Dancing Line Productions

[theclassydancer]

Ok I’m super excited guys, I just found this lovely human and she does a thirty day yoga class. On a whim I decided that I’m going to try to start every day with yoga now. I’ve really felt that as a dancer I need to get into a dedicated daily practice. And since I’m too lazy to build my own at the moment I figure I’ll just borrow hers. Another struggle I’ve been having is this inability to find stillness for any length of time. So I’m hoping that yoga slows me down. I’m jazzed

[ryanishka]

Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder…..Improv today with my sister Flo