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COBRA ! The challenges of coaching go beyond knowing your craft. You have to inspire young preprofessionals and give them an image that will lift them beyond mere execution. Our aim, after all, is to guide young dancers in the steps of Masters. Sometimes, a coach has got to be a bit of a poet. And possess dramatic flair in the manner of -- well, say it! -- a Bernhardt, a Taglione. Imagination, we feel, is as solid a guide today as it must have been, a century past.
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In the sequence below, we join an interactive session with coach Diane Aldis from the Perpich Center for Arts Education and her colleague, Jessica Lang, of Juilliard II. Jessica and Diane are intent on imparting style over more than 1,000 miles. Watch as the young dancer reaches for the image they conjure up --- A Cobra with a Necklace!!! [7.5 MB] -- and comes closer to performance level, thanks to inspired coaching. There is another lesson in this sequence. It speaks to partnership. The collaboration that made such coaching possible is a model -- and our partners and the students at The Southern New Jersey Academy of Performing Arts are --- inspired!
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