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Making Mistakes on Stage
The worst thing you can do in the middle of a performance when you mess up is to stop dancing, switch your feet, or something like that. No one in the audience is going to know you have the wrong foot until you switch them, and then they will say to themselves, that girl doesn't know what she's doing. Keep going with what you are doing; don't draw attention to yourself. If you look confident in what you are doing, people will think that you are doing the right thing.
Correct Way to Use the Barre
 The exercises you do at the barre are meant to help you find your balance. As you know, most things become harder when you do them in the center. When you do combinations at the barre, every so often lift your hand off to see if you could balance without it. You'll be able to tell real fast if your weight is balanced or not. Always try to just lightly have your fingertips resting on the barre.
Surviving Slow Combinations
The hardest thing for me when dancing is adagio, or slow movement. This includes those super hard slow extensions of the leg. Your adagio should always be moving. This involves a good ear for music, besides you don't want to have any jerky movements or pauses. Don't think, oh my goodness here comes that hard leg lift, it's gonna hurt, right before you start an adagio. If you do, you'll only be thinking about getting your foot back on the ground, and you'll look like it to. Instead try and think of reaching for a point in space.
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