Hi Lisa,

I hope you won't be afraid of my bad english, I'm french and, as you now, french people are not so good at speaking foreign languages ! ;)

I'm forty three and I haven't been dancing for 20 years. I have come back to dance 3 years ago, and I have been on pointes again since last month. Pretty hard and strange to discover again these sensations, with a different body (no longer a young girl!) and a different mind...

My feet and ankles are still strong and my arch is not so bad, but they lost "elasticity" (don't know if it is the good word!) and they have "forgotten" how to work good together, and I don't feel myself as secure as I would like. So your book is a great great help and I thank you to have written it!

I work, I work, I work, and I'll tell you how I progress.

Best regards.

Ika

Hi Lisa
 
Going great with the course....have been doing the exercises for about 3 weeks now and really notice a difference. I feel so much stronger en pointe and my feet are getting more flexible. I haven't got the best arches ever so have always felt I had "bad feet". Not only have I got a better pointe but I am now actually pointing my feet correctly! I have always pointed from my toes as I have a low arch, but now I am really working on lengthening the toes and using the right muscles - its hard to correct a habit of a lifetime, but I'm working on it! I do experience a lot of pain in my achilles, especially going onto demi-pointe, but I assume this is from not lengthening my toes when pointing...
 
Its really great to know exactly what is going on and the correct muscles you should be working. I wish I had had this book when I first started!
 
Thanks for everything :)
Denise

 
Hi Lisa

I am just getting started on the book and so far it is really helpful and will pass the exercises onto my students as soon as possible and email you if we have any problems.  Your emails are really helpful to as i have students with some of the problems you have sent mail on so can now help them!!!  Thank you for doing the book and AV course it is so nice to have help in Zimbabwe a there is not much at all.