Dancers
Build healthy habits, strengthen your fundamentals, and spend less time wondering what to work on next.
A thoughtful way to balance every part of your practice.
Class is where we learn. The days in between are where so much of the growth happens.
Building strength, taking care of your body, practicing with intention, and feeling confident that you’re giving every part of your practice the attention it deserves can be hard to balance.
Rince brings those pieces together into a flexible plan that fits naturally into your life—so you can spend less time wondering what to do next and more time falling in love with the process.
Built to support dancers. Designed to welcome everyone.
Tuesday · Turnout & Placement
25 minutes · Focused
2 / 4
- Hip Rotation Warm-Up
- Clamshells
- Parallel-to-Turnout Rotations
- Turned-Out Crossing Walks
From last class
“Keep your heels grounded and think about the rotation beginning at the top of your legs. Maintain the crossed placement and turnout while moving instead of twisting the feet farther outward.”
A quieter way to practice.
Every week begins with a thoughtful plan built around your class schedule.
Each day, Rince offers one area to focus on, bringing together exercises, mobility, recovery, and coaching that support long-term growth.
Every exercise includes clear guidance to help you choose the right variation for that day. Some days you’ll challenge yourself. Some days you’ll scale back. Both are part of becoming a stronger dancer.
Because progress isn’t about always doing more.
It’s about learning what your body needs, and having the confidence to meet it there.
There is no floor. There is no ceiling.
Whether you’re learning turnout for the first time or preparing for your next major competition, every dancer is still learning, adapting, and growing.
Rince is designed to grow with you.
Because the best ideas don’t belong to only one community.
Learning to listen to your body.
Practicing with intention.
Finding joy in steady progress.
Those habits have a way of shaping more than our dancing.
A Thoughtful Curriculum
A thoughtful plan for the days between class.
Knowing you should practice is easy.
Knowing what deserves your attention today is much harder.
Most training programs organize workouts by body part or generic fitness goals. Rince is organized around the physical qualities that help someone become a stronger, healthier, more capable Irish dancer.
Each area supports the others. Together, they create a balanced approach to training that gives every part of your practice the attention it deserves.
The Chapters
Every part of your practice.
- 01
Turnout & Placement
Build healthy turnout, crossed placement, and confident movement from the hips outward.
- 02
Strength & Power
Develop the athletic foundation for stronger jumps, faster movement, and safer landings.
- 03
Balance & Stability
Stay organized and in control through every landing, transition, and turn.
- 04
Posture & Control
Move with strength, efficiency, and the quiet upper body Irish dance demands.
- 05
Precision & Finishing
Refine the small details that create cleaner, more consistent dancing.
- 06
Stamina & Capacity
Maintain movement quality and technique even as fatigue increases.
- 07
Mobility & Flexibility
Build usable range of motion that supports technique, comfort, and recovery.
- 08
Recovery & Preparation
Prepare intentionally, recover well, and build habits that support long-term consistency.
How the Curriculum Comes Together
- 1
Step 1
See today’s focus
Your weekly plan highlights one area of training so you always know where to begin.
- 2
Step 2
Meet yourself where you are
Each exercise includes coaching and variations to help you choose the right challenge for your body that day.
- 3
Step 3
Keep building
Over time, the focus areas work together to create a healthier, stronger, and more confident dancer.
Who It's For
Made for the work that happens between classes.
Whether you're practicing yourself, supporting someone you love, helping dancers grow, or simply curious about thoughtful movement, Rince was designed to make the days between classes more intentional.
Parents
Support your dancer with clearer routines and priorities without stepping into the teacher's role.
Teachers
Support the work that happens between lessons by helping dancers build strength, refine technique, and develop healthy habits.
Beyond Irish Dance
Thoughtful practice, healthy movement, and steady improvement are the principles behind Rince, but they belong wherever people are learning something they love.
Our Beliefs
The principles that guided the curriculum.
Teachers are irreplaceable.
Growth happens between classes.
Consistency matters more than perfection.
Listen to your body.
There is no floor. There is no ceiling.
Practice should build confidence, not dependency.
Great teachers only have so much time with each dancer. Rince exists to make the days between lessons just as thoughtful, helping dancers build stronger movement habits, develop the fundamentals, and arrive at class ready to make the most of their time with a teacher.
The weekly rhythm isn’t accidental. Each focus area is intentionally arranged around the natural cadence of dance classes, helping dancers revisit every part of their training over time while arriving at each lesson ready to build on a stronger foundation.
A note
Rince
(RIN-ka) · the Irish word for dance
For me, it means something a little bigger.
I’ve always believed every dancer deserves thoughtful coaching, a place where they belong, and a real opportunity to improve. They deserve to learn how to care for the body that makes all of that possible. Not because medals or placements are what matter most, but because dance has always given us something bigger than that.
It’s where we find community. Where we learn resilience. Where we discover what we’re capable of. Where we become the kind of people who show up prepared, keep trying when things are difficult, and celebrate someone else’s success as much as our own.
That’s why I built Rince.
A quiet place to carry the work between classes.
Beta
Help shape a better practice companion for Irish dancers.
Rince is being tested with dancers, parents, and teachers. The beta is an opportunity to try the early version and tell us what would make it genuinely useful in real Irish dance life.
Enter the Beta
The beta is still evolving. You may encounter unfinished features or changes between visits.
Meet the dancer behind Rince
Hi, I’m Julia.
If you’ve danced with me before, you probably know me as the girl with the glitter.
Before every performance, there’s usually a line of dancers waiting for a little swipe of highlighter and the same reminder:
“Even if you mess up, just think, ‘What would Rihanna do?’”
By day I’m an engineer. The rest of the time I’m usually dancing, coaching, volunteering, or wondering how we can make learning just a little easier.
Eventually, that question became Rince.
Like a lot of dancers, I spent years piecing my training together from everywhere.
A workout on YouTube. A mobility routine I saved on Instagram. Strength exercises from a coach. Notes from class. A reminder in my phone to stretch.
Eventually I realized I was spending almost as much time figuring out what to do as I was actually training.
I kept thinking, there has to be a better way.
As an engineer, I like systems that make sense. As a coach, I’ve learned that people improve when expectations are clear and good habits are repeated over time. As a dancer, I’ve learned that some of the biggest improvements happen between classes.
Every workout and training focus in Rince was built from current evidence, coaching experience, and the realities of Irish dance, then organized into a curriculum designed for long-term development.
Teachers teach dance.
Rince exists to support everything that happens between lessons. It’s there to help dancers build stronger movement habits, develop the fundamentals, care for the body that makes dancing possible, and arrive at class ready to make the most of every minute with their teacher.
The weekly rhythm isn’t accidental. Each focus area is intentionally arranged around the natural cadence of dance classes, helping dancers revisit every part of their training over time while arriving at each lesson ready to build on a stronger foundation.
This beta is my attempt to build the training companion I always wished existed.
It’s still growing. Some things will change. Some things will probably break. And honestly, I expect dancers, parents, and teachers will make it better. That’s part of why I wanted to share it early.
If you decide to be part of this, thank you.
It really does mean a lot.
You’re not just testing an app. You’re helping build something that I hope makes Irish dance training a little simpler, a little smarter, and a little more intentional for the dancers who come after us.
— Julia
Before you go…
If you’ve made it this far, thank you.
Seriously.
Rince is still a work in progress, and it’s getting better because people are generous enough to spend a little time with it and tell me what they think.
If something made you smile, confused you, felt missing, or sparked an idea, I’d genuinely love to hear it.
The best parts of Rince probably haven’t been built yet. They’ll come from dancers like you.
That’s where the magic happens.
(Even a one-line email makes a difference.)
P.S. If you found the little grey seal… thanks for turning every page. 🦭