(Today's post comes to us from AMA Instructor, Kaela Norwood.) As a young dancer, you may wish for things about your body to be different... but DON’T! While the idea of having “perfect” feet, legs, back, and many other things would make you a better dancer or make dance easier is common, that philosophy is [...]
We would like to introduce Miss Amy Capps! Miss Amy has been with AMA for eight years! She has been a dancer with us for all eight years and this is her fourth year as one of our dance instructors, working with some of our basic and intermediate tap students! […]
(Jessie Frank is a former AMA Dance & Music School student and instructor.) Last week I shared my story of trying out for the Gamma Phi Acrobatic Circus as a sophomore at Illinois State University. I had missed out as a freshman, but I was determined to become a member of the Circus this year. [...]
(This post comes from Jessie Frank, former AMA Dance & Music School student and instructor.) Have you ever wanted something really badly? And you worked so hard for it that you KNEW it would be yours one day? I learned a really difficult lesson in the last couple of months that I wanted to share [...]
(Today's AMA post comes from AMA dance instructor, Lauren Tedeschi!) I remember my first dance class back at the park district in 1998 with the AMAzing Ann Marie Frank. I was in my shiny new buckle tap shoes, black leotard and pink tights. I remember slipping on the dance floor. She would call out “marching [...]