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Letter From the Editor: Welcoming New Beginnings This Spring

Reanne Rodrigues

Spring is an exciting and busy time for dance teachers. For many of us, the season inspires change and new beginnings. Maybe you’re looking to upgrade your teaching skills or refresh your choreography. Or maybe you’re looking to switch teaching jobs or acquire new ones. If that’s the case, you know that the process can be […]

Molly Lynch teaching.

Office Hours With University of California, Irvine’s Molly Lynch

April Deocariza

Teaching Tips

Maria Torres dancing with a student.

Maria Torres Teaches a Latin Jazz Warm-Up

Sophie Bress

Collage of Tiler Peck and Marika Molnar

Watch DT+ Teacher Talk: “Ankle Strengthening and Injury Prevention” by Marika Molnar With Tiler Peck

Dance Teacher

Martha Graham Dance Company in Primitive Mysteries.

Teaching Your Students to Dance Without Music

Sophie Bress

Black and white image of Pearl Primus in Show Boat (1946).

Pearl Primus: Ambassador of Modern African American Dance

Elizabeth McPherson

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technique

Martha Graham Dance Company in Primitive Mysteries.

Teaching Your Students to Dance Without Music

Sophie Bress

Woman dancing in a dance studio with arms wrapped around her body and eyes closed.

Video: Teaching Your Students to Dance Without Music with Sam Black

Dance Teacher

MIKAELA SANTOS AND PATRIC PALKENS IN CATHY MARSTON’S SNOWBLIND AT ATLANTA BALLET.

Teaching Communication Tools for Partnering

Sophie Bress

Dancers lying on the walls of a parking lot

Teaching Students to Get Inspired by Nondance Forms

Sophie Bress

Lesson Plans

Maria Torres dancing with a student.

Maria Torres Teaches a Latin Jazz Warm-Up

Sophie Bress

Black and white sideways photo of dance educator Peter Chu.

Peter Chu Shares a Lesson That Exemplifies His Chuthis Ideas Class

Sophie Bress

Dancer Chris Grant stretching arms to the side with his partner Lauren Grant lying horizontally across. They are against a green background.

Lauren and Christopher Grant Teach Their “Superman Rock-and-Roll”

Lauren Wingenroth

NYCB's Sara Adams executing an exercise on the floor. She lies pelvis down and arms outstreched in an open V.

Hilary Cartwright Shares 3 Exercises to Help Students Develop Strong Lines and Fluid Transitions in Arabesque and Port de Bras

Sophie Bress

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Studio Owners

Photo from the 1990s, courtesy Bristol Ballet.

How Bristol Ballet Is Preserving the History of Its Appalachian Community

Julia Mary Register

Kathryn Morgan works with a class of adult ballet students.

Adult Ballet Is Surging by Leaps and Bounds

Lindsay Martell for Pointe

James Alexander, founder and director of Flavor’d Flow Studio breaking on stage.

How Flavor’d Flow Studio Is Keeping the Culture of Breaking Alive in Columbus, Ohio

Julia Mary Register

Dance educator Kim Black at the barre with a young student pointing at a picture on the wall.

How Inflation Is Impacting the Dance Education Industry

Hannah Maria Hayes

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Dance History

Black and white image of Pearl Primus in Show Boat (1946).

Pearl Primus: Ambassador of Modern African American Dance

Elizabeth McPherson

Black and white image of Gregory Hines in rehearsal for White Nights.

Gregory Hines: America’s Ambassador of Tap

Katie Rolnick

Black and white image of Gregory Hines.

History Quiz: Gregory Hines

Katie Rolnick

NYCB dancers performing Waltz of the Flowers in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker.

History Quiz: Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky

Courtney Rae Kasper

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Music

Jason Williams teaching at Steps.

How Jason Williams Incorporates Music From Warm-Up to Combo

Meghan Keeney

How Candace Brown Finds New Music for Class and Choreography

Meghan Keeney

Collage of dance poses by dancer Hayden Frederick.

Hayden Frederick on Accessing Authentic Emotions Through Music

Meghan Keeney

Side by side photo of Kenichi Kasamatsu dancing in black pants and a print shirt against a gold background.

For Kenichi Kasamatsu, Musicality Is a Rainbow

Meghan Keeney

Health & Body

Collage of healthy food

5 Plant-Based Snacks for Your Dance Bag

Rachel Fine, MS, RD, CDN, CEDS for Pointe Magazine

Young ballerina holding a magic wand and large purple bucket decorated with Halloween pumpkins.

3 Ways to Enjoy Not-So-Scary Halloween Candy With Your Students

Rachel Fine, MS, RD, CDN, CEDS

Pattern of plastic lunch boxes filled with healthy food, fresh fruits and berries on white background. Top view, flat lay.

5 Dietitian-Approved Snack Ideas for Your Fall Schedule

Rachel Fine, MS, RD, CDN, CEDS

Healthy fruits and vegetables against a dark background.

5 Superfoods for Summer, Fall, and Beyond

Rachel Fine, MS, RD, CDN, CEDS

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teacher stories

Antoine Troupe Is Committed to Providing High-Quality Dance Education for Young Artists

Haley Hilton

Molly Lynch teaching.

Office Hours With University of California, Irvine’s Molly Lynch

April Deocariza

Sandra Fortune-Green and Sylvester Campbell meet First Lady Betty Ford at the White House before departing for the 1976 Varna International Ballet Competition.

Sandra Fortune-Green, Capitol Ballet Ballerina Who Represented U.S. in Varna and Moscow, Impacts Future Generations Through Teaching

Monica Stephenson for Pointe Magazine

Arianna Dickerson in dance shots.

What My Teacher Taught Me: Ariana Dickerson on Christian Claessens

as told to Haley Hilton

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