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Letter From the Editor: Start Summer on Strong Footing

Reanne Rodrigues

Our dancers spend countless hours on their feet—let’s help them take better care of them. If you’re looking for practical ways to build strength, improve articulation, and support long-term foot health, I hope you’ll join us for our next DT+ Teacher Talk, “Exercises for Strong, Supple Feet,” on Thursday, July 23, at 12 pm EDT. […]

Photo of a dance instructor leading a group of young children practicing a cross-armed movement in a studio with brick walls and wood floors.

3 Studios Reshaping Traditional Dance Education

Hannah Maria Hayes

Teaching Resources

A woman in baggy white clothing dances under a spotlight in a darkly lit room.

For Jodi Melnick, Movement Always Takes Precedence Over Music

Rebecca Corey

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Registration Link for DT+ Teacher Talk: “Exercises for Strong, Supple Feet”

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Watch DT+ Teacher Talk: “Creating Safe Dance Competition Spaces”

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On a dance convention stage, a girl on the far left is sitting on her left leg with her right leg extended. In the middle, Shannon Atkins points at a dancer on the far right, who is moving into a similar leg extension.

Prioritizing Safety at Dance Conventions

Emily Bufferd

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Technique & Artistry

Ballet dancer leaping with the light blurred behind in a fiery orange tone.

How to Help Your Students Effectively Develop Muscle Memory

Sarah Parker

Jonathan Alsberry teaching a class wearing a grey tshirt and black pants with arms held in open fifth position.

Navigating Turns With Your Students

Katie Slattery

A busy crowd scene from the ballet Giselle, in which the lead ballerina, in white, is dramatically going mad while male and female ballet dancers gasp in the background.

How to Help Students Embrace—and Succeed in—Background Roles

Jennifer Heimlich

The same ballet dancer shown in three different roles, in a long classical skirt, a black leotard with bare legs, and a silky pajama set.

How to Cast and Coach Dancers in Roles Outside of Their Comfort Zones

Stav Ziv

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Lesson Plans

Irene Hogarth-Cimino assisting students at the barre. The student has her leg extended in second position.

Irene Hogarth-Cimino Teaches Glissade Assemblé for Elementary to Advanced Levels

Hannah Chang Foster

Jacqueline Green Miller wearing a black crop top and leggings faces a screen with a laptop in front of her. She has one arm overhead and the other held low against her hip.

Jacqueline Green Miller Teaches How to Harness Turnout, Length, and Connection Through Plié to Passé and Beyond

Hannah Chang Foster

A woman in bright pink classical Indian attire is in a dance studio, arms outstretched and face tilted up toward her right hand.

Sahasra Sambamoorthi Teaches a Bharatanatyam Warm-Up Combo

Hannah Chang Foster

A man in a black t-shirt and black pants leads a rehearsal in a dance studio. Several dancers wearing rehearsal attire are also visible.

University of Iowa Ballet Professor Eloy Barragán Shares a Partnered Phrase

Hannah Chang Foster

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Studio Owners

Photo of a dance instructor leading a group of young children practicing a cross-armed movement in a studio with brick walls and wood floors.

3 Studios Reshaping Traditional Dance Education

Hannah Maria Hayes

A collage of three images. On the left, a dancer on stage in a white dress. In the middle, three dancers in black leotards pose with their teacher. On the far right, another dancer poses on pointe in a white dress in a studio.

Brazilian Social Project Inspires Young Dancers From Chile to Dream Big

Lindsay Martell

Collage of images with Simone Gabrielle teaching (left), hugging a student (middle) and a class image of her students (right).

San Diego Academy of Ballet Students Find Global Success Through Vaganova Training

Julia Mary Register

Philadelphia’s Second Chance Dance Creates Community for Adult Dancers

Hana Le

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Dance History

Black and white image of Michio Ito dressed as a matador for his 1927 piece Tango.

Michio Ito: The Forgotten Modern Dance Pioneer

Rachel Straus

John Bubbles: The Father of Rhythm Tap

Jenai Cutcher

Bessie Schönberg: Teaching the Art of Making Dances

Rachel Caldwell

Black and white image of Trisha Brown.

Trisha Brown: Taking Postmodernism to New Heights

Rachel Caldwell

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Music

A woman in baggy white clothing dances under a spotlight in a darkly lit room.

For Jodi Melnick, Movement Always Takes Precedence Over Music

Rebecca Corey

Annie Rigney in a dark rose tshirt with one arm outstretched and the other folded against her chest. She looks sideways.

How Annie Rigney Uses Music To Get Students Out of Their Heads and Into Their Bodies

Jennifer Heimlich

Daniel Duell teaching at Ballet Chicago.

How Daniel Duell Passes Along Balanchine’s Lessons on Musicality

Jennifer Heimlich

Shots of Rachel Leigh Dolan in the studio with other dancers in the middle frame. On the right and left she is pictured in a red lit room.

How Rachel Leigh Dolan Uses Music to Get Her Students in the Right Mindset for Class

Jennifer Heimlich

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Health & Body

On a dance convention stage, a girl on the far left is sitting on her left leg with her right leg extended. In the middle, Shannon Atkins points at a dancer on the far right, who is moving into a similar leg extension.

Prioritizing Safety at Dance Conventions

Emily Bufferd

Jenna Zavrel teaching a class.

Teaching Dance Postpartum: Balancing Motherhood and a Career

Jenna Zavrel

Ballet teacher explaining mistakes to student at the barre.

10 Toxic Phrases Heard in Dance Classes (and What to Say Instead)

Barry Kerollis

Picture of a ballet dancer in a studio sitting down with one knee bent, her head and arm resting on it.

What Dancers, Teachers, and Directors Need to Know About Concussions

Hana Le for Pointe Magazine

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Artist Profiles

What My Teacher Taught Me: South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Kia Smith On Her 3 Dance Mentors

as told to Jen Peters

Lisa Biagini in the bright Ailey studios with windows in the background, performs an X jump

Jazz Teacher Lisa Biagini on Luigi Jazz, Family Legacy, and Longevity in Dance

Catie Robinson

Group photo of Sydney Mesher with young dancers with limb differences dressed in ballet oufits.

How Rockette Sydney Mesher Teaches Dancers With Limb Differences

Rebecca Corey

Collage of images showing Diana Byer instructing dance students at the center and barre.

Diana Byer Is Bringing Back Ballet’s Long-Lost Steps With “Teaching Cecchetti”

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

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