Rachel Rizzuto

Consulting editor Rachel Rizzuto is originally from Chalmette, Louisiana. She dances for MMDC and heads her own project-based company, touche pas.

more stories by Rachel Rizzuto

Laurie Kanyok stands in a line of young adult students wearing athletics wear. They all face the front of the room with their palms turned forward, working on an acting exercise.

How to Help Your Dancers Fully Embody Character Onstage—Even the Ones They Struggle to Relate to

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Katherine Dunham Fused Together Dance and Anthropology

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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson: Boundary-Breaking Tap Dancer

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Why—and How—College Dance Programs Insist on Balancing Technique Class With Theory

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Doug Risner holds a clipboard in one hand and a pen with the other as he gestures broadly. Two dancers in pastel costumes listen and watch intently.

Dance Teacher Award Honoree Doug Risner Keeps His Research Alive in the Classroom

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Cynthia King, wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and large earrings. She pulls her salt and pepper hair up above her head and smirks.

The Power of “No”: Brooklyn Studio Owner Cynthia King Carves Her Own Path

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A dancer in a blue leotard and blue tights extends her leg in the air, arching back towards the floor. She is on a competition stage, with the "Applause Talent" backdrop

Ask These 7 Questions Before Choosing a Competition

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Teen stage door students line up outside the studio waiting to come in for class. They wear masks.

What’s Your Dance Studio’s Customer-Experience Journey?

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Young girls in blue leotards and skirts hold either side of a barre, with their outside hand on their shoulder. They are mid-plié.

How to Turn Your Post-Recital High Into Strong Fall Enrollment

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Endalyn Taylor, a Black woman with short cropped hair wearing all black, leans her elbows on a free-standing ballet barre in the middle of a sunlit dance studio. Her stance is wide, leaning into one hip as she looks dead on at the camera with a smile in her eyes.

Endalyn Taylor Prepares to Head UNCSA School of Dance

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