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Last Call to Submit Your 2025 Dance Teacher Award Nominations

Reanne Rodrigues

Nominations for the 2025 Dance Teacher Awards are only open for the next three weeks (until Monday, March 31, 2025), so be sure to get your submissions in via this form now! Every year, we recognize excellence in teaching by honoring outstanding dance educators for their contributions to the field. We’re currently accepting nominations for […]

A still from West Side Story choreographed by Al Blackstone at the Maltz Jupiter Theater in Florida.

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Jean leading a rehearsal for Spring Dances 2018, in which she staged Merce Cunningham’s “Sounddance” for Juilliard performers.

How Jean Freebury Challenges Students to Trust Their Ideas About Rhythm

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Artist Profiles

Adam Vesperman.

Adam Vesperman Moves From Billy Elliot to Touring the World

Ashton Benn

Mackenzie Fey smiling and seated on the floor in butterfly position with her student sitting facing her.

Mackenzie Fey’s Adaptive Dance Classes at Ballet Academy East Are Special

Tango Tanner

Cornelius Carter teaching a Choreography Class at Lincoln Center.

Cornelius Carter Shares Dance as an Act of Community Service

Barry Kerollis

Skylar Brandt in Giselle in a grand jete.

What My Teacher Taught Me: American Ballet Theatre Principal Skylar Brandt on Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky

April Deocariza

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Competition & Convention Profiles

ROOTS Dance Summit’s Holistic Approach Is Revolutionizing the Competition Experience

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How Headliners Creates a True Competition Experience Fueled by Passion and Focused on Education

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Starbound National Talent Competition Combines 31 Years of Experience With Expansion

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Technique & Artistry

A still from West Side Story choreographed by Al Blackstone at the Maltz Jupiter Theater in Florida.

When Preparing Students for Broadway, Focus Your Theater Class on Character and Storytelling

Sarah Parker

Dancer Vi Dolan in a one arm handstand with the other arm outstretched by her ear.

Helping Students Prepare College Audition Solos

Kathryn Holmes

Photo on woman upside down in harness from a tree.

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

Stav Ziv

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News

Seven dancers costumed in red turtlenecks and blue jeans perform on a darkened stage. They create angular, asymetrical shapes using negative space, some connecting with hands on each other's sides or arms.

Educator Moves: Shifts in the Dance Education Landscape From Winter 2024–25

Courtney Escoyne

Letter From the Editor: Announcing DT+’s Brand-New Video Library!

Reanne Rodrigues

Dancers performing on stage.

Point Park’s Dance Program Becomes Its Own School Within the University

Jennifer Heimlich

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Music

Jean leading a rehearsal for Spring Dances 2018, in which she staged Merce Cunningham’s “Sounddance” for Juilliard performers.

How Jean Freebury Challenges Students to Trust Their Ideas About Rhythm

Jennifer Heimlich

Tracie Stanfield with her students.

How Tracie Stanfield Teaches Dancers to Be Partners With the Music

Jennifer Heimlich

Tommy Wasiuta performing on stage besides a saxophonist.

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

Jennifer Heimlich

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Higher Ed

Dance teaching resident Madeline Grande leading a class in a Chicago public elementary school.

How Loyola University Chicago’s Master’s Program Is Certifying Dance Teachers for Public Schools

Kate Mattingly for Dance Magazine

Crystal Davis teaching a workshop about implicit bias in the dance field for public school dance educators in South Carolina.

Making a Case for Teaching Financial Literacy in Higher Ed Dance Programs

Thomas Ford

John Jasperse instructing students

A New Fellowship Launches for Sarah Lawrence’s MFA in Dance

Jennifer Heimlich

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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Health & Body

Catherine Earp working with undergraduates at Old Dominion University.

Teaching With a “Pilates Lens”: A New Way to Approach Alignment and Artistry

Catherine Earp

Sarah Wilkerson correcting a young student at the ballet barre.

How to Create a Positive Injury Culture

Sophie Bress

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Teaching Dance After a Miscarriage

Jenna Zavrel

BPM Dance Complex dancers and staff backstage before performing.

How to Deal With Mid-Comp-Season Burnout

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Studio Owners

Chan Hon Goh adjusting the head placement of a ballet student at the barre.

How Canada’s Chan Hon Goh Discovered Her Own Leadership Style at the Multigenerational Goh Ballet Academy

Julia Mary Register

Adam Holms sitting on the floor while his students surround him standing at the ballet barre.

Quitting Your Teaching Job to Open Your Own Studio

Hannah Maria Hayes

Tara Brown and Alexis Beffer

How Boston Dance Studios Founder Tara Brown Created the Professional Training Facility She Was Missing

Julia Mary Register

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How Obscure State Laws Can Put Dance Studios at Risk

Alan Wong

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Teaching Resources

A still from West Side Story choreographed by Al Blackstone at the Maltz Jupiter Theater in Florida.

When Preparing Students for Broadway, Focus Your Theater Class on Character and Storytelling

Sarah Parker

Jean leading a rehearsal for Spring Dances 2018, in which she staged Merce Cunningham’s “Sounddance” for Juilliard performers.

How Jean Freebury Challenges Students to Trust Their Ideas About Rhythm

Jennifer Heimlich

Chan Hon Goh adjusting the head placement of a ballet student at the barre.

How Canada’s Chan Hon Goh Discovered Her Own Leadership Style at the Multigenerational Goh Ballet Academy

Julia Mary Register

Dance teaching resident Madeline Grande leading a class in a Chicago public elementary school.

How Loyola University Chicago’s Master’s Program Is Certifying Dance Teachers for Public Schools

Kate Mattingly for Dance Magazine

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