Are you tired of wanting to improve your but feeling like you have to fight with your body in order to do it?
turnout,
Do you keep getting the same corrections about your rotation and placement in fundamental positions, but the corrections you’re getting aren’t actually helping you to fix the problems?
Despite their best efforts, many ballet instructors have incomplete or outdated information on how to actually help their students find their maximum turnout for THEIR bodies. This leaves many of us feeling frustrated, discouraged, and even worse, injured, just because we haven’t been given the proper tools to obey the command, “TURNOUT MORE!” when we hear it repeatedly throughout class or rehearsals.
If so, you are totally not alone!
Do you keep getting the same corrections about your rotation and placement in fundamental positions, but the corrections you’re getting aren’t actually helping you to fix the problems?
Are you tired of wanting to improve your but feeling like you have to fight with your body in order to do it?
turnout,
If So, You Are Totally Not Alone!
Despite their best efforts, many ballet instructors have incomplete or outdated information on how to actually help their students find their maximum turnout for THEIR bodies. This leaves many of us feeling frustrated, discouraged, and even worse, injured, just because we haven’t been given the proper tools to obey the command, “TURNOUT MORE!” when we hear it repeatedly throughout class or rehearsals.
This program isn’t about giving you corrections like the ones you may already get in ballet class. It’s about building a foundation of experience, tools, and understanding of how to find your maximum rotation and strength in your fundamental technique in a much more powerful, specific, and transformative way than what can be covered in a 90-minute technique class.
We will be guiding you through a unique and cutting-edge approach that combines the latest understanding from dance science, kinesiology, anatomy, pedagogy, and psychology to help you create a noticeable improvement in your turnout, placement, strength, and confidence in your ability as you dance.
This unique program is designed to help you create improvement in your placement, technical strength, and even your sense of confidence in your abilities as you dance!
During the 2-day weekend intensive, here are just a few of the things you will gain…
Knowledge of your anatomy and how to specifically unlock maximum turnout for your body
But Not
JUST Turnout!
A personalized strengthening & warm-up routine to assist you in building strength where it matters most while also preparing your body for a productive class
An evidence-based understanding of how to approach technique class in order to improve your turnout, stability, and overall skill
An understanding of how your mindset can be shifted to optimize your performance, build authentic confidence in yourself and your abilities, and use the mind-body connection to your advantage
An understanding of how your mindset can be shifted to optimize your performance, build authentic confidence in yourself and your abilities, and use the mind-body connection to your advantage
Individual attention and encouragement from instructors who are both experts in their fields and mentors who are there to encourage and believe in you from a place of knowing what it’s like to be in your shoesyour advantage
Connection and community with a small group of dancers from all over who are just as passionate and ready to learn as you
This program isn’t about giving you corrections like the ones you may already get in ballet class. It’s about building a foundation of experience, tools, and understanding of how to find your maximum rotation and strength in your fundamental technique in a much more powerful, specific, and transformative way than what can be covered in a 90-minute technique class.
We will be guiding you through a unique and cutting-edge approach that combines the latest understanding from dance science, kinesiology, anatomy, pedagogy, and psychology to help you create a noticeable improvement in your turnout, placement, strength, and confidence in your ability as you dance.
Austin William Crumley has been surrounded and involved in the performing arts all of his life. Starting in Musical Theater he was introduced to Ballet in high school & loved it enough to continue training at The University of Oklahoma, School of Dance where he earned a B.F.A. in Ballet Pedagogy.
Afterward, he joined the Sacramento Ballet as a professional company dancer. Throughout his career, he has performed various choreography including those by George Balanchine, Ma Song, Jock Soto, Gina Patterson, Gerald Arpino, Ron Cunningham, Mary Margaret Holt, Ilya Kozadayev, Clara Cravey Stanley, and many more. Now Austin enjoys his time teaching Classical and Contemporary Ballet, Progressing Ballet Technique by Marie Walton-Mahon, and other Dance Science related courses as well as pursuing his Masters in Education. His goal is to create an inclusive, accessible Ballet education for all who may partake in the art form by incorporating educational evidence & Dance Science for stronger and healthier dancers.
Austin Crumley - Pedagogy & Anatomy
Delaney Mena is a professional contemporary/modern dancer and a certified personal trainer, helping dancers gain strength and train safely to avoid injuries and achieve their technique and performance goals. Delaney is a recent graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance with concentrations in Modern and Ballet performance. As a trainer, Delaney holds certifications as a NASM Personal Trainer with a specialization in Stretching and Flexibility. She is currently working as a freelance artist with contemporary choreographers in New York City. Delaney began her work as a personal dance trainer with True Dance Potential in 2019, working with dancers all over the world, including Canada, the UK, and New Zealand. She has created an online community of over 50,000 dancers and athletes, where she shares educational posts, exercises, and tips for improving a dancer’s technique with strength and flexibility training. Delaney has combined her knowledge and expertise to help dancers achieve their true potential.
Delaney Mena - Strength Training
Kirsten is a Former Professional Ballet Dancer and High-Performance Mindset Coach for ballet dancers, specializing in helping dancers release the mental and emotional blocks that hold them back from peak performance and wellbeing. As a dancer, Kirsten has trained and performed with the Houston Ballet, has a BFA in Ballet from the University of Utah, danced professionally with Oklahoma City Ballet, and is the creator of The Confident Dancer on YouTube and Instagram, an online community of over 20,000 dancers around the world. As a coach, she holds many certifications including being an IBCP Board-Certified Trainer & Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming, Master Life & Success Coach, Master Practitioner of Hypnotherapy, Master Practitioner of T.I.M.E. Techniques, Practitioner of Emotional Freedom Techniques, and iPEC Certified Professional Coach. In addition to working with top pre-professional and professional dancers from all over the world, Kirsten is an International Professional Speaker and Master Ballet Instructor.
Kirsten Kemp - Mindset
Meet Your Instructors:
Austin William Crumley has been surrounded and involved in the performing arts all of his life. Starting in Musical Theater he was introduced to Ballet in high school & loved it enough to continue training at The University of Oklahoma, School of Dance where he earned a B.F.A. in Ballet Pedagogy.
Afterward, he joined the Sacramento Ballet as a professional company dancer. Throughout his career, he has performed various choreography including those by George Balanchine, Ma Song, Jock Soto, Gina Patterson, Gerald Arpino, Ron Cunningham, Mary Margaret Holt, Ilya Kozadayev, Clara Cravey Stanley, and many more. Now Austin enjoys his time teaching Classical and Contemporary Ballet, Progressing Ballet Technique by Marie Walton-Mahon, and other Dance Science related courses as well as pursuing his Masters in Education. His goal is to create an inclusive, accessible Ballet education for all who may partake in the art form by incorporating educational evidence & Dance Science for stronger and healthier dancers.
Austin Crumley - Pedagogy & Anatomy
Meet Your Instructors:
Delaney Mena is a professional contemporary/modern dancer and a certified personal trainer, helping dancers gain strength and train safely to avoid injuries and achieve their technique and performance goals. Delaney is a recent graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance with concentrations in Modern and Ballet performance. As a trainer, Delaney holds certifications as a NASM Personal Trainer with a specialization in Stretching and Flexibility. She is currently working as a freelance artist with contemporary choreographers in New York City. Delaney began her work as a personal dance trainer with True Dance Potential in 2019, working with dancers all over the world, including Canada, the UK, and New Zealand. She has created an online community of over 50,000 dancers and athletes, where she shares educational posts, exercises, and tips for improving a dancer’s technique with strength and flexibility training. Delaney has combined her knowledge and expertise to help dancers achieve their true potential.
Delaney Mena - Strength Training
Kirsten is a Former Professional Ballet Dancer and High-Performance Mindset Coach for ballet dancers, specializing in helping dancers release the mental and emotional blocks that hold them back from peak performance and wellbeing. As a dancer, Kirsten has trained and performed with the Houston Ballet, has a BFA in Ballet from the University of Utah, danced professionally with Oklahoma City Ballet, and is the creator of The Confident Dancer on YouTube and Instagram, an online community of over 20,000 dancers around the world. As a coach, she holds many certifications including being an IBCP Board-Certified Trainer & Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming, Master Life & Success Coach, Master Practitioner of Hypnotherapy, Master Practitioner of T.I.M.E. Techniques, Practitioner of Emotional Freedom Techniques, and iPEC Certified Professional Coach. In addition to working with top pre-professional and professional dancers from all over the world, Kirsten is an International Professional Speaker and Master Ballet Instructor.
Kirsten Kemp - Mindset
During this segment, you will gain an awareness of your personal anatomy, the mechanics of proper rotation, and an understanding of how your mindset affects your physical performance. With this awareness, we will guide you through building an honest assessment of where you are currently at in each of these areas compared to where you want to be.
Phase 1: Awareness and Assessment
Phase two is all about identifying what has been personally blocking you from attaining your maximum potential in the realm of rotation. Whether that is a technical approach that does not work for your body, mental blocks that are keeping you frustrated and tense in your body, opportunities for building strength in particular muscle groups, or habits in how you warm up or dance that isn’t serving your turnout goals. Once these things are clear, we will walk you through creating changes in the areas that will make the biggest difference for you personally.
phase 2: Releasing Your Personal Road Blocks
This phase will be your space to create new habits, approaches to technique, warm-up/strengthening routines, and mental shifts and practices that will set you on a path of long-term improvement and success that will keep paying off over time in your technique and confidence. We will guide you through taking the knowledge you gained in the previous two phases and putting it into daily, practical action that you will see continual results from if maintained over time.
phase 3: Building Your Personal Routine
This phase is all about celebrating where you are now compared to where you came from, solidifying what you’ve learned, and building a vision for how you want to continue to progress in the future.
phase 4: Solidifying Lessons Learned, Celebrating Personal Growth,
How the program works…
and Building Vision for the Future
Over our 2-day weekend intensive, we will meet live over zoom for several hours each day (times and dates will be released shortly).
During our live training sessions, we will have alternating time blocks with each of the experts, having time to introduce and start implementing the strategies we will share to help you quickly improve your turnout.
After our live sessions, you will be given a follow up guide with exercises that are designed to help you effectively integrate the concepts you learned during the live sessions and bring up ”aha” moments or questions that you’ll be excited to continue to bring into your regular classes. And since we know that nobody likes spending their precious spare time on busy work, we have designed all self-study assignments to take no more than one hour per week.
How The Program Works…
phase 1: awareness and assessment
During this phase, you will gain an awareness of your personal anatomy, the mechanics of proper rotation, and an understanding of how your mindset affects your physical performance. With this awareness, we will guide you through building an honest assessment of where you are currently at in each of these areas compared to where you want to be.
phase 2: releasing your personal road blocks
Phase two is all about identifying what has been personally blocking you from attaining your maximum potential in the realm of rotation. Whether that is a technical approach that does not work for your body, mental blocks that are keeping you frustrated and tense in your body, opportunities for building strength in particular muscle groups, or habits in how you warm up or dance that isn’t serving your turnout goals. Once these things are clear, we will walk you through creating changes in the areas that will make the biggest difference for you personally.
Over the 2-day weekend intensive, we will meet for a few hours each day over zoom (exact times and dates to be determined shortly).
During our live training sessions, we will have alternating time blocks with each of the experts, having time to introduce and start implementing the strategies we will share to help you achieve your personal best rotation.
After the live portion of the intensive is complete, there will be guided self-study assignments that are designed to help you effectively integrate the concepts you learned and bring up ”aha” moments or questions that you’ll be excited to bring into your regular classes. And since we know that nobody likes spending their precious spare time on busy work, we have designed all self-study assignments to take no more than one hour per week.
phase 3: building your personal routine
This phase will be your space to create new habits, approaches to technique, warm-up/strengthening routines, and mental shifts and practices that will set you on a path of long-term improvement and success that will keep paying off over time in your technique and confidence. We will guide you through taking the knowledge you gained in the previous two phases and putting it into daily, practical action that you will see continual results from if maintained over time.
phase 4: solidifying lessons learned, celebrating
This phase is all about celebrating where you are now compared to where you came from, solidifying what you’ve learned, and building a vision for how you want to continue to progress in the future.
personal growth, and building vision for the future
Intermediate/Advanced dancers who have taken at least 3 years of ballet technique
Dancers who want to learn sustainable practices and solutions to optimize their rotation
Dancers who are curious, open-minded to new approaches and are willing to put in the work outside of our group meetings to meet their own goals
Dancers who are 15 years of age or older
Who Turnout Talks
is best for…
See what other dancers have been saying even about the free sampling of this program that Austin started on his Instagram account in February!
Pricing
Join this transformative training experience for one payment of $957 USD or three monthly payments of $357 USD
*Applications will be closing as soon as all 12 spots are filled.
