Resources
The following are some resources you may find helpful. Please note there is no affiliation between the below-referenced Websites and/or organizations and The Ballet School & Dance Arts.
| Lines for the Body Dance & Fitness Apparel Store Lines is owned/operated by dancers to provide the most friendly, educated, specialized pointe shoe fittings in Northern Vermont. We are located just behind the East Orchid Restaurant. 2035 Essex Road |
| Discount Dance Supply: a dance supply company bringing the dance community a selection of dance accessories, discount dancewear and dance clothes. |
| Triple Loop Skate and Dance carry major brand name dance products and shoes. Also, they custom design for your specific needs. |
| eBay lists many ballet-related clothing, shoes & accessories. This link will open a pre-defined search for ballet items on eBay. |
| How to make a ballet bun: The Oregon Ballet Academy has a good description of how to make a ballet bun, including pictures. |
| Ballet Music from Brio Recordings Producing quality CDs for Ballet, Pointe, and Variations classes. Distributor for Modern Class CDs. TOLL FREE: 1-866-897-8299 |
What the experts say about the benefits of dance...
“Dance allows children to develop not only physically but cognitively, socially, and emotionally… The actualization of dance requires the students to be constantly evaluative, systematic, and diagnostic, to use short term - and long term memory to access intricate combinations, to exercise acute spatial awareness and to apply it all against a musical phrase. These skills must be applied instantaneously against auditory sensory functions, prioritize and spit back out through the body to remain in time with the music. There are not to many exercises given in any classroom that require a student to be analytical, methodological, mathematical, sequential, and physical (simultaneously) within an exacting time frame.”
-Katie Langan Dance Education chair Dance Dept. at Marymount Manhattan College
“Dance advances learning, especially its value as a universal language, a symbol system, and a vital form of human expression. Highly complex movements such as dance increase brain functions close to 100%.”
“I have been successful because I started ballet. “
“We need the arts because they remind children that their emotions are equally worthy of respect and expression.”
-Greater Good Magazine