Keeping Up With Juliette

  Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Today, I'm going to be talking about Alyson Stoner for my last All about:____ post and I'm really happy that I get to talk about her today because she is really amazing! Born in Toledo, Ohio, Alyson Stoner is a well-known TV actress, singer, and an amazing dancer who's starred in the movies Camp Rock as Caitlyn Geller, Garfield as Kid Rat, and the Step Up movie franchise as Camille. She released her debut single, Flying Forward, in 2010 and her debut EP, Beat The System, in 2011 and became a popular triple threat artist featuring in Kurt Hugo Schneider's music videos and hosting shows on Disney channel. As a young girl, Alyson studied ballet, tap, and jazz dance at the O'Connell's Dance Studio, where she first embarked on her career in dance. However, Alyson also had a strong passion for modelling and so she also began her training in that sector at the Margaret O'Brien Modelling Studio, where she was ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Now that I kind of have a breadth of knowledge about blogging, after doing it for a few years now, I thought it would be a great time to give you some tips about how to start your own blog because if this is something that you really want to do, you'll find that it's actually quite easy to create your own website. I hope you find these simple and easy tips helpful! Before you go onto doing anything, I think that it's a really good idea to come up with a few ideas about what you want your blog to be about. Do you want it to be about life like mine or do you have other interests that you wish to share? Your blog can be about writing stories, your pets and looking after animals, your favourite sport, books, your favourite films, photography, coding, learning languages etc, etc, etc. Your blog can be about anything just as long as you find your own niche of something you really enjoy doing, the right audience that you want...

  Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Today I'm going to be talking all about ZooNation and Kate Prince, in continuation with this series. Now, I've actually done a lot of research on Kate Prince's life and the ZooNation dance company when I was completing part of my coursework for BTEC dance. As I found out more about Kate and her company, I felt inspired to tell you guys about her since she isn't very well known and through what she's done, she has changed the way we look at dance and therefore deserves to be talked about today. I hope you enjoy reading about her story and the life of ZooNation! It's really interesting. Kate Prince was born in 1974 in Southampton. She is the founder and artistic director of ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company, an urban, contemporary, and hip hop specialised dance company, based in London. Kate has choreographed many pieces in her own musicals and has a real eye for creative, new, and raw talent. One of her p...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  I'm going to be talking about the famous modern dance duo, Briar Nolet and Myles Erlick, for today's All about:______ post.  If you don't know who Briar Nolet and Myles Erlick are, they are two very young contemporary dancers from the Canadian Dance Company, who were featured on the popular kids dance reality show, The Next Step, where they showcased their incredibly athletic duets as well as their strong and powerful solos. They have once been labelled as the two best dancers in the world and not only are they partners in the dance world but they are also a true couple in real life. They both have achieved amazing things so let's not hesitate to find out a bit more about them.  Myles Erlick was born on the 27th of July, 1998, in Burlington, Canada. He is known as a sensational talent; a triple threat artist with a natural singing voice, who also dances and acts professionally. Coming from a family of artists, he w...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I hope you're all still doing well during quarantine! It's the second post of my "All about____" series, where I talk about the dancers, choreographers, and people who have changed the way we look at dance. Last week, I talked about the Burn the Floor Dance Company so if you haven't read that already, I suggest you do because it's really interesting. You can find the link to it here . However, today I'm going to be talking about the amazing South Korean dance studio, 1 Million Dance Studio! 1 Million Dance Studio is an innovative dance center that was co-founded by Lia Kim and Timon Youn, on the 1st of December, 2014. Lia Kim is well known for her insane tutting skills and for her appearances at Urban Dance Camp and Kurt Hugo Schneider's music video to Closer, by the Chainsmokers. Whilst Timon Youn is not a dancer himself, he is very much responsible for the videography for 1 Million Dance Studio...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I know that I was supposed to write a review of the Greatest Dancer for today but I think that I'm going to move that to next week because I really want to talk about something that I think is really meaningful. As much as I love dance, I do feel as though the meaning of dance has changed over the years and that people nowadays are doing dance for different reasons. In the past, dance was based a lot more around creativity and a different way to express how you feel about something. I think that tap dance was actually a style performed on the streets, where the dancers would literally attach pieces of metal to the soles of their shoes and create a completely different way of moving. Now, we see this form of dance on Broadway musicals like Chicago, where the style is now associated with class and elegance. I think that it's completely natural that things change as everything has to evolve with it's time, in order to be...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, It's January and I'm beginning to get back into the swing of things. I've started to stretch and practice in the morning. I'm particularly focusing on my tricks because I think that my dance teacher at school would like me to perform some in the street routine we're doing for the show. It's themed on Into the Hoods, which I did research on for my coursework. I published a section of it on my blog, if you would like to read it. Kate Prince, the artistic director of the production, is an interesting character and an inspiring person to read about so I would definitely recommend that you read my post on her because she has an interesting story. I think the show is one thing I'm looking forward to doing this year because since I'm in year 11 now, there's a lot more I'll be involved in and I also get to choreograph my own contemporary routine with some of my classmates so it would be a time to r...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Today, I just wanted to talk about my creative process and how I get the inspiration to come up with new dance routines and blog posts. When I went on my work experience at a nearby dance school, I think my forte was really coming up with different routines for the students. The owner of the studio, really praised me on my choreography  over anything else because I think that I have quite a creative mindset. To come up with these routines, I would often pick out the music I wanted to do the routine to, then I would start coming up with some moves in one of the empty studios. Then I would also film myself doing the routine, like the video I uploaded on my channel and on my Instagram. This really helped me to figure out what looked good and what didn't. Then, once I've tweaked a couple things, I came up with a full routine. However, when I'm writing blog posts, I usually get my ideas from just writing down something. I ...