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29

May

When the injury you were hoping wouldn’t get any worse gets worse right before a performance

#DancerProblems

5 hours ago Short URL 3 notes

dance/ballet/pointe/jazz/ankle/foot/injury/

24

May

When your clothes end up in someone else’s dance bag and they leave…

#DancerProblems

5 days ago Short URL

dance/clothes/pants/shirt/ballet/jazz/tap/modern/lyrical/pointe/

When you screw up every dance in the dress rehearsal before the show because your nerves are shot

#DancerProblems

5 days ago Short URL 1 note

dance/performance/ballet/nerves/modern/lyrical/tap/jazz/pointe/

When “smile” is not a request, it’s a command

#DancerProblems

5 days ago Short URL 5 notes

dance/smile/ballet/jazz/modern/tap/ballroom dancing/

When you soak your feet in the kitchen sink because the bathtub takes too long to fill up

#DancerProblems

5 days ago Short URL 2 notes

ballet/feet/pointe/dance/ouch/pain/

21

May

When you have a headache from one bobbi pin digging into your skull, but you know that if you remove it, your whole bun will fall apart

#DancerProblems

1 week ago Short URL 2 notes

dance/bobbi pin/bobbi pins/hair/ballet bun/ballet/

When you get all warmed up for a dress rehearsal and then get cold because it takes an hour to run cue-to-cue

#DancerProblems

1 week ago Short URL 9 notes

dance/ballet/rehearsal/dance rehearsal/pointe/dance performance/

14

May

When you can’t complain about gaining weight around normal, non leotard-wearing friends because they’ll just tell you to shut up

#DancerProblems

2 weeks ago Short URL 4 notes

dance/ballet/dancer/pointe/modern/jazz/weight/

13

May

When you just keep wearing dead pointe shoes because you can’t muster up the energy to sew your new ones

#DancerProblems

2 weeks ago Short URL 1 note

dance/ballet/pointe/

05

May

When the girls correcting everyone else’s timing are the girls who are off tempo

#DancerProblems

3 weeks ago Short URL 2 notes

dance/ballet/jazz/modern/dance class/bitches/