by Dance Teacher | Jul 25, 2019 | Placeholder content
Those who took Akira Uchida’s contemporary class in New York City last summer learned a high-energy combination to share with their students back home. Uchida’s style infuses contemporary with an influence of jazz and hip hop, and he danced full-out in...
by Dance Teacher | Jul 24, 2019 | Placeholder content
With a World Championship title in Latin Ballroom, Erica Marr charmed NYC Dance Teacher Summit participants with a spicy combination that focused on Latin action and leg awareness, along with elements of jazz dance. Marr grew up as a studio competition dancer and...
by Dance Teacher | Jul 23, 2019 | Studio Owners
Joanne Chapman gave an entertaining rendition of what not to say during a parent/studio director conversation at the New York City Dance Teacher Summit. This panel was created by our team of studio-owner ambassadors, including Chapman and Dani Rosenberg, Becca Moore,...
by Dance Teacher | Jul 22, 2019 | News
Martin Harvey brought a little movie star charm into morning ballet class at our New York Dance Teacher Summit. (His acting credits include Gossip Girls, All My Children, Dirty Dancing, A Chorus Line, Carousel, plus Metropolitan Opera productions of Carmen and Manon...
by Kathryn Holmes | Jul 19, 2019 | Dance Teacher Awards
Ask Michele Larkin-Wagner and Molly Larkin-Symanietz what sets them and Maplewood, Minnesota–based Larkin Dance Studio apart, and they immediately give the credit to their mom. Shirley Larkin founded the school in 1950 and continued to oversee the growing business...
by Betsy Farber | Jul 18, 2019 | Dance Teacher Awards
In Macarena Gandarillas’ jazz class at California State University, Fullerton, a sign in the studio reads, “Never underestimate the power of determination.” This simple mantra embodies what has made this self-described “danceaholic” such...
by Jenny Ouellette | Jul 17, 2019 | Dance Teacher Awards
It was the morning of November 8, 2018, and Jarrah Myles’ first-period choreography students were in last-minute rehearsals for their fall dance concert that evening. “All of a sudden my students’ phones started ringing like crazy,” says Myles,...
by Rachel Caldwell | Jul 16, 2019 | Dance Teacher Awards
While taking class in 2006, Marisa Hamamoto felt a tingling sensation in her elbows, then suddenly collapsed to the floor. She was hospitalized and diagnosed with spinal cord infarction, a rare spinal stroke that left her paralyzed from the neck down. Despite being...
by Dance Teacher | Jul 15, 2019 | News
When Lisa Johnson-Willingham isn’t at our Dance Teacher Summit teaching the lateral Ts, flat backs and pelvic hinges that are the hallmarks of Horton technique, she directs the Ailey Extension, offering a schedule of open community classes in New York City at...
by Dance Teacher | Jul 12, 2019 | News
Tapper Anthony Morigerato is known for his crazy-fast feet. In fact, he holds the world record for “most tap sounds in one minute”—1,163, if you’re wondering. He has performed with Michael Minery’s Tapaholics, the musical group Matt and...