Dance Gifts: Good Gift Ideas for Dancers

Any time a dancer celebrates her birthday, Christmas or a successful dance recital or competition, she loves to receive dance gifts that she can use. If you are trying to find a dance gift for a female dancer, you may be scratching your head and wondering what she would consider a good dance gift. Fortunately, if you know the types of dance presents that dancers like to receive, you'll have no trouble generating good gift ideas for dance gifts. Whether the dancer spends all her time at the ballet barre or prefers hip hop, there is a wonderful dance gift waiting for her. Here are a few suggestions to consider when shopping for special dance gifts:

Dancewear and Accessories

Given how quickly dancewear runs out, it's no wonder that dancers love to receive it as a dance gift! Another reason that dance apparel makes a great dance gift: there are unlimited options for dance gifts, between leotards, dance shorts, tops, sweats, track jackets and other dancewear in every style and color. Be careful to get the right size though, or you'll have to go through the whole ordeal of returning or exchanging the dancewear. You should also have a good grasp on the dancer's tastes, or you run the risk of giving them something that will end up in the back of the closet. Your best bet for giving apparel as a dance gift may be to get the dancer a gift card to a local dancewear store.

Accessories can also be good gift ideas for dance presents. You could give the dancer a necklace or pair of earrings with pointe shoes or dancers on them. If the dancer owns a charm bracelet, you could get her some charms with dancers on them as a dance gift. Dancers also love receiving hair accessories as dance presents. When you're stuck wearing a ponytail day in a day out, there's nothing like getting colorful headbands or rhinestone bobby pins for dance gifts that add a little fun to the hairdo.

One of the most useful of all the good gift ideas is to get the dancer a new dance bag. This is where she can store her shoes, extra clothes, toiletries and all those other great dance gifts she received. Dance bags go through a lot of wear and tear, so a new dance bag always makes for a great dance gift.

Dance Decorations

If you don't think the dancer will want clothing or accessories as dance presents, consider getting her some dance decorations for her bedroom. This could include posters or calendars with her favorite dancers or dance companies, figurines of ballerinas, a dance-themed picture frame for dance photos, or any other dance decorations you can think of. Putting dance decorations in her room will help her express who she is and what is most important to her-dance! If you are into scrapbooking or craftwork, you could create a dance scrapbook or other dance crafts for her to use as dance decorations. My aunt once gave me magnets with dance quotes and pictures of dancers on them, which I absolutely loved, and put up in my locker at school as dance decorations.

Other Good Gift Ideas:

-Dancers are known to have battered feet, which is why any dancer would love to receive a pedicure as a dance gift. Other dance presents for pampering the feet: foot massage ball, foot lotion, foot soaking salts and comfy socks

-DVDs of dance performances-this could be anything from the Nutcracker for a Christmas dance gift to DVDs of hip hop crews or movies about dancers such as "Save the Last Dance" or "Center Stage."

-Tickets to any dance production. Choose a group of dancers or style of dance that the dancer who's receiving the dance gift enjoys. This could be a local ballet company, a touring Broadway act, or even the So You Think You Can Dance tour when it comes through your city (my friend got SYTYCD tickets for her birthday and she was ecstatic!)

- A subscription to a dance magazine makes a wonderful dance gift. These magazines have great advice about improving technique, easing performance jitters and anything else you can think of. They also feature interviews with professional dancers and several of the magazines include full-size dance posters that can be put up as dance decorations. The most popular dance magazines are Dance Spirit, Dance Magazine, and Pointe.

The dance gift suggestions above (dancewear, accessories, dance decorations and other good gift ideas) should be helpful as you try to figure out what to get for a dance gift. The dancer who receives the dance gift will surely be thrilled that you were thoughtful enough to give her something that reflects her love of dancing.