Although I usually have a pedicure before I dance, I don't like all of the callouses take off of my feet. I do this because I was dancing at a Kismet once and I stomped me foot to the music I was dancing to and my perfectly smooth foot cracked and bled....I have also burned my feet dancing on a not so great outdoor stage. So it seems to me that although callouses are not bery attractive they do protect my feeties!

Renee

I always have a black LRose choli bra top in my bag. In case I have any sort of bra mishap, I can throw that on and all is well.

Don't ask how I thought to do it. :)

And of course, safety pins, bobby pins, some sort of snack bar, a book for unplanned on waits, extra makeup.

I like my callouses.

As for sore muscles, I take advil before a workshop and I stretch through out the day. I try not to get completely cooled down unless it's lunch time or a lecture. I stretch well before getting in the car. Then I take advil on the way home.

At my show last night, someone brought in a big vegetable tray-I would have thought that would have beena bad idea, but I must have eatern 30 sugar snap peas with ranch and danced great!