In the vast spectrum of colors, there exists a hue that perfectly complements your essence. It's the shade that enhances your complexion, boosts your confidence, and resonates with your personality. Discovering your signature color isn't just about following trends; it's about embracing what makes you feel uniquely radiant. So, how do you go about finding this perfect match? Firstly, consider your skin tone. Your skin undertone plays a crucial role in determining which colors will harmonize best with your complexion. If you have warm undertones, shades like earthy tones, oranges, yellows, and ..read more

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Starting any class or sport can be a bit overwhelming for even an outgoing child so it's not surprising or unusual at all for there to be some tears or butterflies about starting a new class. Here are 5 tips that parents and teachers can use to help young children begin and transition to a new class. First, talk with your child about how many days (or sleeps - whatever your family uses to count) until their class starts. Continue to talk about how much time and what your child can expect as you get closer to the big day! Second, set the stage or give them a visual about what to expect. Common ..read more

The New Year is a great time to bring focus or re-focus your goals but kids' goals as well. Goal setting sessions can be a great tool for finding out what we want and how we're going to get there. Here are practical tips for goal setting with your kids. Remove distractions like TVs, phones, ipads, friends. Have some snacks and drinks so that kids can relax and enjoy the process. Ask your kids to write down all of their goals for 3 minutes. Goals can be related to baton twirling but can also related to school, family or other sports. This is a brain storming session. Write down anything and ev ..read more

If you compete individually, have you ever received the comment, "good color for you?" Did you ever wonder why a judge would write that? A judge writes that when the costume color is complimentary to the twirlers skin color, hair color and eye color. Essentially, you are choosing a color that brings out all of the very best features in your twirler or dancer. So, how do you discover the best colors for your child? It's actually a really simple process. Take color swatches or even clothes that you already own and put that color swatch/clothes across the chest just under the collar bone. If you ..read more

If you are a family that has been with us for a while, you are probably familiar with our two competitive teams - Performance Team & National Team. Performance Team was created many years ago with a focus on community performances throughout the school year. Due to the pandemic and many community events being canceled along with the busy nature of our families, we have seen the number of community performances dwindle. Our performance team has become a team that continues to work on new skills along with competing in 1-2 local competitions. We have also seen our performance team become a s ..read more

Choosing a new sport or coach can leave parents with questions about coaching philosophy to payment to communication. Here's 10 questions to ask your new coach. Share with me your philosophy on coaching. This is your coach's elevator speech. Do their values align with yours? Does the philosophy change based on the athlete and/or their level? How do you set goals with your students or athletes? Are the goals given to the athlete or is it a collaborative process? When the athlete fails or doesn't do something that you like, how do you handle those situations? How do you communicate with parents ..read more

As try-outs for many studios are just around the corner, students and parents are making the choice about whether to jump into the competition world! Here's what you need to know about joining a competition team at Dance-Twirl Minnesota. * Competitions are great but reaching excellence is a process. We know that students are going to improve throughout the year and we hope that each competition or performance brings improvement. We love winning as much as the next team but perspective is important. * We plan ahead and rarely deviate from our schedule. We know you're busy so we'll get a schedul ..read more

If you have a child that is just starting their performing arts career then a combination class is a great option for them. Combination classes teach different styles in one class. This has some great benefits for your little star. The first benefit that we love in a combination class is that new students can try multiple different styles such as ballet, jazz and baton twirling. With time or money being a concern in many families, many parents avoid signing up for multiple classes when their child is just beginning and we totally understand that dilemma. Combination classes allow new students ..read more

Students are receiving their invitations to join National Team this week and we would like to Congratulate all of our students that received an invitation! We invite students that enjoy class, are willing to try new things and have great attendance. So, what do you need to know about National Team? Here's a few details: National Team competes in 2 traveling competitions (one in Omaha and one in Milwaukee), 2 local competitions and Nationals held in July at Notre Dame University. National Team practices for 60-75 minutes weekly. We have one practice per month on Sundays to work on acro or dance ..read more