Dance Teacher Awards

Dre Torres demonstrates for a small class of tap students. She is a young white woman with her hair styled in an undercut; she wears a denim button down open over dark pants, topped with a dark green, drapey scarf. She faces her students as she crosses one foot in front of the other, head dropped toward her working leg in a jazzy style.

2024 Dance Teacher Award Honoree Dre Torres Makes Tap Welcoming for Beginners and Broadway Stars

Ryan P. Casey

Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag in the studio.

2024 Dance Teacher Award of Distinction Honorees Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag Are Consummate Community-Builders

Kathryn Holmes

Collage of photos from the 2023 DT Awards cocktail reception.

You’re Invited! 2024 Dance Teacher Live Workshops & Awards

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Group Of Young Girls With Teacher In Ballet Class

Nominations are Open for the 2024 Dance Teacher Awards

Reanne Rodrigues

Photo of the stage with "2023 Dance Teacher Awards" on screen and DT's editor standing on a podium on stage right.

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

Reanne Rodrigues

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