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Is Your Child Ready for Theatre School?

Performance comes naturally to children. Think: tantrum at the grocery store. Think: pantomime of disgust when supper fails to please. Think: playing dress-up and pretend. And while not every child is interested in taking his flair for the dramatic ...

Mark Ballas: Two-Time Dancing With the Stars Champion

Mark Ballas is a professional actor, dancer and musician who became famous after joining the cast of the ABC reality show "Dancing With the Stars" in 2007. Ballas was born on May 24, 1986, in Houston. At a young age, Mark, the only child of Corky ...

Reality Shows Kids Watch

With so much unscripted programming on television these days, you might wonder who's watching it. Turns out the answer is: Our kids! Surprise, surprise. A lot of reality shows are being enjoyed by children as young as 7 or 8 years old. Here are ...

Belly dancing for the maternity crowd

It seems a group of women near Milwaukee, Wisconsin are really putting the belly into belly dancing. Belly dancing has become a popular form of exercise, aided, no doubt, by the gyrations of pop singer Shakira, and pregnancy apparently doesn't ...

Latest YouTube superstar is awkward dancing pre-teen (Video)

Tina's room looks pretty straightforward for a kid her age. And when she speaks, she sounds like your typical junior high kid -- awkward, a little self-conscience, and hindered by a mouth full of braces. But Tina is a superstar -- at least ...

Pole dancing classes for kids

I have a video of Ellie dancing to Someday My Prince Will Come when she was about 3 years old. I don't know where she learned these moves, but in the video, she writhes around on the floor like Madonna and ends the song stretched out on the couch ...

No juking at school

I guess I am old and out of the loop, but 'juking' is a new concept for me. Juking is basically simulated sex on the dance floor for teens. Fully clothed simulated sex, of course. It's been a long time since I attended a school dance, but apparently ...

Chinese parents fear dancing may lead to love

Remember the Chinese government's plan to combat obesity with fancy footwork? It seems parents are concerned about the possible side effects of the plan -- the potential for their children to fall in love with their dance partners. This could lead, ...

What's up with all the dancing?

I've admitted before how much I love "My Super Sweet 16" on MTV, which is funny, considering how angry the show tends to make me. For example, I will usually yell things such as "Don't talk to your mother that way!" or "No brat needs a Lexus!" when ...

What will they be when they grow up?

For a brief period when I was a child, I was certain I wanted to be an actress when I grew up. Specifically, a British actress with blond hair. Considering the fact that I am a brunette from Texas, that was a pretty unrealistic goal. But some of my ...

It's cool dude, TomKat can't dance either!

Just in time for the run-up to Valentine's Day, let's check in with one of my favorite celebrity couples: TomKat. I used to think I was uncool because I couldn't boogie. I worried that I would horribly embarrass my child at the first daddy/daughter ...

She's got Boogie Fever

With the whining and kvetching that my daughter Alex is rapidly including in her repertoire, it's becoming more and more encumbent on me to find ways to make her, well...more pleasant.  Don't get me wrong -- when her whining and kvetching ...

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