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Entering the World of Choreography

Meedhu Miriyam February 27, 2018ballerina, Ballet, beginner, Education Leave a Comment

Choreographing your own dance piece takes a lot of creativity, patience, and hard work. Here are a few tips and pointers that will help you out as you gear up for the competition. Get inspired There is inspiration for movement everywhere. The world and your surroundings can offer so much if you just observe closely - nature, family, friends, pets, ...

The Whole Pointe: My experiences with pointe shoes

Maya Reddy January 12, 2018ballerina, Ballet, dancers, experience, insights 4 Comments

Pointe shoes have always been the most widely recognized symbol of ballet, but for young dancers, they are much more than a symbol. Getting your first pair of pointe shoes is almost like a rite of passage within the dance form, distinguishing between a mature student and a less experienced one. When I was younger, I would look at pointe ...

Muscle Memory – why is it so important in dance and sports?

Devang Bhanushali August 31, 2017Ballet, beginner, dancers 2 Comments

Ballet is an intricate and demanding dance form. The artistic vocabulary is initiated by basic movement sequences and muscular patterning that enables us to choreograph a visual interpretation of the music. We begin with these basic movement that evolves through the grades to more complex muscular patterning that later translates into an artistic vocabulary. These become the vocational levels or ...

Dance Mom – Shilpa Bhat

Meedhu Miriyam June 5, 2017Ballet, ballet productions, children, dancers, danceshows, insights Leave a Comment

Shilpa Bhat is the mother of Anika (age 11) Grade 2 (lower) and Ahana Bhat (age 7) Pre-primary ballet. Role of a mother The role of a mother is a herculean task in itself and we see these beautiful women playing superhero roles out of love all around us. One among this amazing bunch is Shilpa Bhat. Shilpa Bhat ...

Dance Mom – Kumi Ota

Meedhu Miriyam May 13, 2017ballerina, Ballet, callanetics, children, dancers, insights Leave a Comment

Dance Mom Series part 1: Kumi Ota Kumi's daughter is Nana Ota is a 14 year old ballet dancer at TLFCB. Background Do you have a background in ballet? I like ballet, there were a lot of Japanese comics that had ballet in it and as a child I enjoyed reading them a lot. However I never took ballet classes ...

Radha Nambisan The Lewis Foundation of Classical Ballet

One Step at a Time with Radha Nambisan

Meedhu Miriyam April 21, 2017ballerina, Ballet, dancers, experience 2 Comments

The results of the ISTD examinations arrived and made us all very proud of every student's achievement. However, there is one student in particular who showed to be exceptionally outstanding. Radha Nambisan, age 11 did everyone proud by achieving a perfect score of 100%. The ISTD examinations board is world renowned and maintains a very high global standard of education ...

Parikrama- Outreach The Lewis Foundation of Classical Ballet

Shaping the future through ballet

Meedhu Miriyam March 29, 2017Ballet, children, dancers, Education 3 Comments

Children should dream. Children should imagine. Children should aspire to fulfil their fantasies. Children should be given the opportunity to reach beyond the frontiers of background and financial circumstance. Our outreach programme provides a platform for children from less privileged backgrounds to break through limitations and enter a new world in the dance class, where creativity, intuition and discipline are ...

Samanvitha Danda - The Lewis Foundation of Classical Ballet

One Step at a Time with Samanvitha Danda

Meedhu Miriyam March 25, 2017ballerina, Ballet, dancers, experience 7 Comments

How did your journey in ballet begin? When did you join TLFCB? When I was 6 years old I started ballet at a school in Canada. Two years later I shifted to Bangalore and immediately went searching for a good ballet school here and found TLFCB. What inspired you to take up ballet? Every time I watched a ballerina dance, ...