The Summer Dance Intensive Handbook: How to Choose the Best Program for Your Child and Help Your Dancer Get the Most Out of the Experience
By Nina Amir
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Thousands of girls and boys attend summer dance intensives every year. Choosing the right one and preparing for it can prove a stressful experience for parents and dancers -- until the creation of this handbook. Prepared by the mother of a male dancer who has "been there and done that," including chaperoning her son in New York City during the prestigious American Ballet Theatre summer ballet intensive, this handbook offers practical advice for parents and dancers so they make the right choice, prepare appropriately, conduct themselves well, stay healthy, and learn as much as possible while enjoying themselves as well. You won't want to choose a summer intensive or send a dancer off for to a program without consulting this handbook first.
The Handbook includes chapters on:
How to Choose a Summer Dance Intensive Program
How to Register for a Summer Dance Intensive
What to Bring to a Summer Dance Intensive
How to Prepare for a Summer Dance Intensive
How to Stay Healthy and Strong During a Summer Dance Intensive
How Dancers Should Conduct Themselves During a Summer Dance Intensive
Bonus! One full chapter on "What to Consider When Attending the ABT Summer Dance Intensive in New York City"
This updated edition includes the author's experiences and her son's as he went on to attend not only regional dance intensives and the ABT ballet intensive but also the School of American Ballet and San Francisco Ballet summer intensive. It also includes a brief discussion of how these programs can lead to year-round residential programs.
Nina Amir
Nina Amir, Your Inspiration-to-Creation Coach, inspires people to create the results they desire. When working with writers, she inspires them to create publishable and published products and careers as writers and authors. She inspires non-writers to create fully-lived lives; their cherished dreams, desires and goals; and meaning-full and spirit-full rituals and practices. In all cases, she challenges them to find and fulfill their purpose.Nina is a seasoned journalist, editor, writing and author coach; maggid (Jewish inspirational speaker); Kabbalistic conscious creation coach; and the regular holiday and spirituality expert on Conversations with Mrs. Claus, a weekly podcast heard in more than 90 countries and downloaded by 130,000 listeners per month. She holds a BA in magazine journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I Newhouse School of Public Communication with a concentration in psychology, is a certified life coach, a certified rebirther, and is trained as a Tarot reader and as a Voice Dialogue facilitator.Through her writing and speaking, Nina offers human potential, personal growth, self-improvement, and practical spiritual tools. Although she often speaks and writes from a Jewish perspective, her work spans religious lines and is pertinent to people of all faiths and spiritual traditions. She also is a popular writer, blogger and speaker on topics related to publishing and writing.In all she does, Nina focuses on helping people live their lives fully and manifest their desires -- whether those desires look like written products or something entirely different.Nina sees herself as an "Everywoman" whose struggles and successes are not unlike anyone else’s. Therefore, she writes, speaks and teaches from a place of knowing that what has worked for her will at least provide others with a starting place from which to find what works best for them.She lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Los Gatos, CA, with her husband and two children.
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The Summer Dance Intensive Handbook - Nina Amir
The Summer Dance Intensive Handbook
How to Choose the Best Program for Your Child and Help Your Dancer Get the Most Out of the Experience
Nina Amir
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The Summer Dance Intensive Handbook
How to Choose the Best Program for Your Child
and Help Your Dancer Get the Most Out of the Experience
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Acknowledgements
I'm forever grateful to:
Rasta Thomas, who is always so forthcoming with information and willing to help dancers in whatever way he can. Thanks for always picking up the phone and calling to answer my numerous questions. You are a true professional and mentor.
All the teachers at the Ballet San Jose, Teen Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, School of American Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet summer intensives who, to date, have given Julian such great summer dance intensive experiences. Without you, he would not be where he is today.
My husband, Ron, who has made it possible for my son to attend summer intensives—and for me to chaperone him when necessary. Your support of our son's dancing has helped him succeed thus far.
My daughter, Ariel, who was willing to do without me while I took her brother off to New York two summers in a row.
My son, Julian, for taking me on a dancing journey with him. It's a thrill to see you grow as a dancer and to experience the world of dance with you. I will forever cherish the memories of our summers in New York.
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Table of Contents
How to Choose a Summer Dance Intensive Program
How to Register for a Summer Dance Intensive
What to Bring to a Summer Dance Intensive
How to Prepare for a Summer Dance Intensive
How to Stay Healthy and Strong During a Summer Dance Intensive
How Dancers Should Conduct Themselves During a Summer Dance Intensive
What to Consider When Attending the ABT Summer Dance Intensive in New York City
Conclusion
About Nina Amir
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How to Choose a Summer Dance Intensive Program
If you are thinking of sending your son or daughter to a summer dance intensive, let me start by saying, Congratulations!
Although this may feel like a hard decision to make, know that allowing your dancer to attend a summer dance program likely will be one of the best decisions you make for your child's dance career and education.
For my son, Julian, who is now 18 and dancing as an apprentice for a European company, the four summers he spent at residential summer intensives not only made him a better dancer but broadened his outlook on dance in general, changed his daily dance work ethic, strengthened his commitment to and love for his art form, and offered him new connections in the dance world. Although he gave up other things that were important to him to spend his summers dancing, he never once regretted his decision. Each time your son makes this same decision, it can only advance him further toward his goal of becoming a professional dancer.
Every child—every dancer—is different, but most dancers find