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How to Help Students Navigate the Tricky Role of Being an Understudy

Jennifer Heimlich

When the casting sheet goes up, there’s one role that few students are excited to see their names next to: understudy. “We cast understudies all the time. And every time, there will be some kind of disappointment,” says Malu Rivera-Peoples, founder of Westlake School for the Performing Arts in California. Getting asked to understudy not […]

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Dance Teacher Awards

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A Recap of the 2024 Dance Teacher Live Workshops & Awards

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2024 Dance Teacher Award Honorees Jackie “Miss Funk” Lopez and Leigh “Breeze-Lee” Foaad Create a Dance Family

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2024 Dance Teacher Award Honoree Terese Capucilli Passes Down the Transformative Power of Martha Graham Technique

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2024 Dance Teacher Award Honoree Dr. Diane Duggan Teaches From the Heart

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Artist Profiles

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Emily Bufferd with her Assistant Kaitlyn Dee Snyder at Steps.

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ShanDien Sonwai LaRance Carries On Native American Tradition, Culture, and Legacy Through Hoop Dance

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Technique & Artistry

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Teaching Flight: Guiding Students in Safe, Artful Harnesses While Dancing

Hannah Chang Foster

Houston Ballet Artistic Director Julie Kent with Artists of Houston Ballet rehearsing Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes.

Interpreting a Role Is a Delicate Balance. Here’s How to Help Your Dancers Find It

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Eva Burton rehearsing Christopher Stowell’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Oregon Ballet Theatre.

Curtain Up! Helping Students Transition Rehearsal to Performance

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News

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Letter From the Editor: Happy Holidays, Dance Teachers!

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Laura Walker and Donna Faye Burchfield (center) with Bennington dance students.

How Bennington College Saved University of the Arts’ Dance Programs After the School’s Sudden Closure

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Music

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Tommy Wasiuta Has Created a Solo Album With an Unexpected Instrument: Tap Shoes

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Higher Ed

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Health & Body

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Teaching Resources

John Harnage and Madelyn Ho in Larry Keigwin's Rush Hour.

How to Help Students Navigate the Tricky Role of Being an Understudy

Jennifer Heimlich

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Headshots of Nile H. Russell, Dionne Figgins, and Bianca Zumbo Caryl.

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