Dance Teacher Awards

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A Recap of the 2023 Dance Teacher Awards: An Enlightening Evening

Reanne Rodrigues

Enlightened. That’s just one way to describe what it felt like to be among some of the best and brightest in the dance education community at the 2023 Dance Teacher Awards. On Thursday, August 10, at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture in New York City, five extraordinary dance educators—Ana Marie Forsythe (Awardee of […]

THE 2023 DANCE TEACHER AWARD HONOREES Teaching, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CARIDAD MARTINEZ, ANA MARIE FORSYTHE, HILARY CARTWRIGHT, IRENE DOWD, SHEILA BARKER

You’re Invited to the 2023 Dance Teacher Awards

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Studio shot of Caridad Martinez, wearing a blue shirt, pants, and dance shoes, standing in a turned out position with her right leg behind her, gesturing with her arms and looking towards them.

2023 Dance Teacher Award Honoree Caridad Martinez Works From the Heart, and So Do Her Students

Kyra Laubacher

A cluster of dancers surround Irene Dowd as she places one hand on a dancer's sacrum and uses the other to point at a spot on the dancer's mid back. The dancer has blue tape form a V from her lower back to just below her shoulder blades; shorter lengths of red tape form an inverted V in the middle of the blue tape, with the apex on the dancer's spine.

2023 Dance Teacher Award Honoree Irene Dowd Has Transformed How Dancers Learn Anatomy

Nancy Wozny

A photo shows a collage of three images. The larger image on the right shows Hilary Cartwright, dressed in a loose-fitting black shirt and yoga pants, at the front of a dance class, standing in first position and performing a cambé back. Two students stand in front of her, doing the same exercise. The smaller photo on the bottom left shows Cartwright standing in front of a male dancer in a Gyrotonic studio as he does an exercise with a pulley looped around his knees. The last photo on the top right shows Cartwright from the chest up, sitting at an outdoor café and smiling for the camera. She wears a green turtleneck with a blue V-neck shirt over it.

2023 Dance Teacher Award Honoree Hilary Cartwright Brings Ballet and Bodywork Into Perfect Alignment

Kathryn Holmes

2023 Dance Teacher Award Honoree Sheila Barker Continues the Legacy of Her Mentors Through Jazz

April Deocariza

Portrait of Ana Marie Forsythe, wearing a white top, leaning against a ballet barre with a view of the city through the windows behind her.

Ana Marie Forsythe, Dance Teacher’s 2023 Awardee of Distinction, on Why Lester Horton’s Technique Continues to Inspire

Marina Harss

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Dance Teacher Awards!

Chava Pearl Lansky

2022 Dance Teacher Award recipients sitting in the audience

Nominations Are Open for the 2023 Dance Teacher Awards!

Reanne Rodrigues

The 2022 Dance Teacher Awards: In Person, Intimate, Inspiring!

Reanne Rodrigues

Will We See You at the 2022 Dance Teacher Awards This Week?

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Kay Mazzo sits on a window sill and smiles toward the camera. She wears a white dress and folds her hands in her lap.

Kay Mazzo, Dance Teacher’s 2022 Awardee of Distinction, on Preserving Balanchine’s Legacy

Gavin Larsen

Meet Our 2022 Dance Teacher Awardees!

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