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Teacher Wellness, Studio Safety, and More This October

Reanne Rodrigues

There’s something especially energizing about October. The new school year is underway, studios are settling into their rhythms, and teachers are deep in the work of teaching and inspiring their students. In that spirit, this month marks the debut of a new column, Warm Up With…, where we’ll learn how our fellow educators prepare their […]

Melissa Toogood wears a blue jump suit as she lunges in front of a class of dancers copying her movement. They are in a dance studio with gray marley flooring and a barre along the wall.

Juilliard’s Melissa Toogood Explores Timing, Adaptability, and Collaboration Through Music

Rebecca Corey

Teaching Resources

Contemporary dancer rehearsing in a backward bend in the studio with other dancersw overlooking. She wears a beige sheer top, black pants, and is barefooted.

What Dance Teachers Need to Know About Air Quality

Sophie Bress

Young ballet student holding a phone to film/photograph in the studio.

Registration Link for DT+ Teacher Talk: “Filming in the Studio”

Dance Teacher

Melissa Toogood wears a blue jump suit as she lunges in front of a class of dancers copying her movement. They are in a dance studio with gray marley flooring and a barre along the wall.

Juilliard’s Melissa Toogood Explores Timing, Adaptability, and Collaboration Through Music

Rebecca Corey

A school teacher leads young students in a dance exercise with their arms above their head in a brightly lit classroom.

No Studio? No Problem: Teaching K–12 Dance in Any Setting

Jill Randall

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Technique & Artistry

Silas Farley holds a young female dancer's wrists as she stands en pointe in an attitude, on one leg with the other raised behind her in a bent position. The other students watch from behind in the ballet studio. Farley wears all black and the students wear black leotards with tights.

Help Your Students Harness the Power of Opposition for Stable and Expressive Dancing

Hannah Chang Foster

Girl performing contemporary dance on dark stage.

How to Help Students Feed Off—Not Fear—Pre-Performance Adrenaline

Lauren Wingenroth

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

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Lesson Plans

Tap artist Sara Brians squats towards the left with one leg extended out to the right. Her left arm is propped on her chin. She is dressed in a black outfit and black shoes.

Sara Brians Teaches a Cincinnati and Paradiddle Exercise

Ryan P. Casey

Ballet dancer performing on pointe in the center while a teacher observes in a studio.

Ashley Tuttle Teaches Italian Fouettés

Rebecca Corey

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

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Studio Owners

Three young dancers wear black leotards and pink tights as they extend their legs in a tendu to the side in a New Ballet studio with white walls. Dalia Rawson wears all black as she corrects the leg placement of the center girl.

How San Jose’s New Ballet Built a Community Through Dance

Julia Mary Register

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

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Dance History

A drawn image of E.T.A. Hoffmann in the center, surrounded by a background of cursive writing.

The 250-Year Legacy of E.T.A. Hoffmann and His Influence on Dance

Stephanie Kramer

Two men wearing headsets look at a screen while people in light-colored clothing dance behind them.

Paul Taylor: Carrying the Torch for the Second Generation of Modern Dance

Rachel Rizzuto

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

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Music

Melissa Toogood wears a blue jump suit as she lunges in front of a class of dancers copying her movement. They are in a dance studio with gray marley flooring and a barre along the wall.

Juilliard’s Melissa Toogood Explores Timing, Adaptability, and Collaboration Through Music

Rebecca Corey

A woman in an orange mesh dress stands in an outreaching arabesque pose on a dark stage.

How West African Music Shapes Adji Cissoko’s Teaching

Rebecca Corey

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

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Health & Body

Contemporary dancer rehearsing in a backward bend in the studio with other dancersw overlooking. She wears a beige sheer top, black pants, and is barefooted.

What Dance Teachers Need to Know About Air Quality

Sophie Bress

Depressed woman in monochrome sits with her face in the hands and crossed-legged on the floor.

Teaching Through Chronic and Terminal Illness

Lori Boggan

Teenage female ballet dancer wears black leotard, pink tights, black leg warmers, and silver booties. She sits in the middle splits, observing something out of frame. A ballet barre and window are behind her.

How to Integrate Injured Students Into Class

Sophie Bress

Two ballet dancers stretch and smile together against a studio wall.

Why Friendships Matter, According to Dance Teachers and Students

Kate Mattingly

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Artist Profiles

Lucy Vallely in a seated split wearing grey stockings with her face propped on her hands.

Lucy Vallely on the Power of Rediscovering Your “Why”

Ashton Benn

Image of dance artist Jerron Herman clothed in a metallic orange outfit holding a pose sideways against a black background. He holds two fingers up.

How Jerron Herman Helps NDI’s DREAM Students Turn Mistakes Into Magic

Gemma Siegler

Sandre poses with her students who stand in two lines, the top line standing while the bottom line kneels.

How Erika Sandre Built a Career Through Curiosity

Barry Kerollis

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

as told to Jen Peters

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