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How Dance Improves Your Mental Health

When you dance, you feel good.  When you feel good, your mental well-being will consistently improve.  It's that simple.  Dance can help you feel a connection within yourself, which works to help you become more in tune with your mental health and needs.  When you dance, you ignite endorphins in your body that trigger good feelings.  Our dance classes in Apopka help our young dancers develop both their talents and self-confidence.  There are many reasons why ...

Three Ways Dance Helps to Relieve Stress

Have you ever put on a good song and just danced it out when you were feeling overwhelmed or stressed out about life?  Music and dancing are common ways people can relieve stress or alleviate overwhelming, anxious feelings.  As a dance studio in Apopka, we recognize the positive benefits of dance in people's lives and we hope to help our students learn about how they can use dance to promote their well-being.  There are three ways that dance can help you relieve stress....

The Cross-Training Benefits of Ballet

For years, we've all heard stories of how professional athletes, like football pros in the NFL and heavyweight wrestlers, have enrolled in dance classes in order to improve their athletic performances in their respective sports.  These athletes frequently leave ballet classes feeling the benefits of their newfound skills.  As a dance studio in Apopka, 3D Motion Dance offers ballet classes to a wide array of students, ranging from strictly ballet dancers to athletes engaged in mu...

Benefits of Ballet as a Sport

Many parents eagerly sign up their offspring to participate in sports. There are many advantages to basketball, softball, baseball, soccer, and other popular sports. Taking dance classes in Apopka, Florida, however, may be the ultimate sport for your child.   Requires Stamina Dancing one dance after another or practicing the same movement multiple times helps build stamina. There are many benefits for children in developing endurance. It helps improve their posture ...

Real-life Applications Learned in Competitive Dance

One of the things that we often use to motivate our beginning dancers in ballet classes in Apopka is the chance to try out for the competitive dance team. Belonging to this team requires many hours of dedication from our more experienced dancers and their parents. There are many benefits of competitive dance that students carry with them into the real world after high school or college graduation. These benefits apply regardless if the student is going to become a professional dancer, lawyer,...

The Dancer’s Diet

The emphasis that ballet and other dance movements put on having perfect body moves often leaves dancers with eating disorders. Spending hours staring into a mirror usually leaves one plenty of time to see one’s perceived body faults. Then, the inner drill sergeant harps that if you would just lose more weight, you would be better than the dancers who are currently ahead of you. Instead of giving way to poor eating habits, embrace a healthy dance diet. Carbohydrates ...

4 Modern Choreographers

While history has seen many great ballet choreographers, those working in the industry today are taking ballet to an art form never seen before earning respect from new audiences who are enjoying seeing their amazing work. These choreographers are well versed in ballet’s classical language, but they are adding modern aesthetics to create dances that are a visual art form. Justin Peck Justin Peck is the chief choreographer with the New York City Ballet. He has chore...

Tragedy to Triumph in Classical Ballet

Classical ballets are performed to classical music with female dancers usually taken the lead. The first classic ballets were performed during the last half of the 19th century with many taking themes from the supernatural. Many are designed to show women as fragile and in need of protecting. Here are some classical ballets that have been performed around the world. Cinderella Most credit the Cinderella ballet as coming from the French storyteller Charles Perrault and ch...

The Advantages of Cross-training With Dance

If you have a budding athlete on your hands, then get them enrolled in dance camps in Apopka, Florida, this summer. They can benefit greatly from the cross-training of ballet, hip hop, and many other dance styles. Many great athletes including Steve McLendon, Lynn Swann, Rob Gronkowski, and Herschel Walker have taken dance classes. Consider these benefits of taking dance classes for your athlete. Improves Conditioning Conditioning through dance helps the athlete perform ...

4 Inspirational Ballet Dancers

Draw some inspiration from these four ballerinas who are changing the face of ballet forever before taking your next set of ballet classes in Apopka, Florida. Misty Copeland Misty Copeland was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but she moved to California at a very young age. She did not take her first ballet class until she was 13 years old. Dance came naturally to her and she was turning down professional offers to dance before she was 15 years old. Her mother was not in f...