This past Sunday, CBS 60 minutes ran a special on the New York City Ballet. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out here (and three bonus clips.) Enjoy!
November 1, 2012
Happy November!
Happy November, adult ballerinas!
I haven’t updated in a few days because Tuesday night, before I could even make it to ballet class, I came down with an extreme case of tonsillitis. I’m headed to my second doctor’s appointment tonight to try and figure out what’s going on so I can get better and back to ballet.
In the meanwhile, how’s everyone been?
And don’t forget to check back tomorrow for our Adult Ballerina Profile this week of DisneyBallerina!
October 23, 2012
How do you workout?
(Photo credit: keepon)
While I’d love to be in ballet every single day of the week, it’s just not possible given that I’m a broke college student and that I’m fairly busy. I know that I’m lucky that I make it to 2-3 classes a week. And if you’ve been following the blog, you know I’m out of ballet for at least another week (and it’s so hard not to go but I know it’s better for my ankle injury this way–I’m working on strengthening it and babying it as much as possible).
But since I can’t be in a studio every day of the week, I’ve started exercising in different ways, usually some sort of toning using either my foam roller (my favorite piece of equipment for working out sore muscles after a tough workout or ballet) and my new stability ball. I’m really looking forward to using the stability ball to workout my core since I could definitely use more core strength for my ballet.
Here’s some of the workouts I’ve been testing out, now that I haven’t been able to go to ballet lately or hit the gym and the treadmill like I used to:
Foam Roller Back Stretch: Haven’t done this one yet, I’ll let you know how it feels tonight!
Stability Ball Roll Out: Another set I’m testing this evening.
More Stability Ball Moves: I love the reverse crunches, ball curls, and pike. I can’t manage to figure out the skier without falling off (and Prevention’s video link is broken). Let me know if you’ve done it or a similar move.
Foam Roller Workout: The butterfly lift and the shell curl are wonderful exercises (the shell curl is great 
for rolling out your lower legs). Boyfriend said the scissor balance was tough but felt like it was a good workout while I couldn’t manage to do it. This link also has great recommendations for foam rollers. I personally love my theraroll. You can check out some muscle release techniques from them here.
Theraband Exercises: My ankles are in desperate need of strengthening so I love the first exercise she snows since it’s how to properly do it. Thanks for the link DisneyBallerina!
What exercises do you do to help strengthen your ballet muscles?
October 22, 2012
TweetChat Recap
For those who missed out on TweetChat last night, about five of us Adult Ballerinas chatted about all sorts of things from things we struggled with in classes like double pirouettes and arms placement (it’s good to know you’re not alone in your struggles!) as well as attending a summer intensive together this summer. We’re looking into the Sun King Dance Adult Dance Camp (and DisneyBallerina has the summer ’13 schedule here ) because they offer camp to nonprofessionals at any level.
If anyone else has summer intensive suggestions we could attend let me know! I’m probably definitely doing one of Koresh’s (here in Philly) which only run about 2 hours a day, but they always hold classes in the evenings afterwards as well for myself since I didn’t get to attend last year.
Also, for those who didn’t get to participate during Tweetchat because of time issues, let me know what times/days work best for you and where your from (feel free to send this to me in an e-mail if you want to keep it private). It’d be great to have more participants!
October 21, 2012
Don’t forget—#adultballerinas twitter chat!
Twitter chat will be at 930 pm EST! Feel free to comment below with your twitter name so other people can follow you before we start!
Mine is @kristengillette.
Well be using #adultballerinas with every tweet if you want to follow along.
