Our Dance Teacher Summit is nearly here! In honor of #ThrowbackThursday, enjoy these words of wisdom from five Summit faculty members, featured in Dance Teacher over the past year. Anneliese Burns Wilson talked to DT about why using props to teach is helpful. “The more senses you can integrate into the way you teach something, […]
Kirsten Russell’s Islands, the 2015 grand prize winner The Capezio A.C.E. Awards competition is well underway, and we’ve seen some amazing choreography so far. However, there’s still time for more submissions, and we want to see yours. Upload a video of your piece to http://dancemedia.com/events/dance-teacher-summit2016 to have the chance to win a $15,000 production budget toward your […]
What a great event we had last week in Long Beach! It was three-plus very full days of classes, workshops, panel discussions and networking, networking, networking. It was hard to say farewell to the fresh Pacific air—and to all our new West Coast friends. But we’re back in NYC, hard at work on the October […]
We’re excited to be in sunny California for our Dance Teacher Summit this week, where the pages of the magazine come to life. Look who we ran into on opening night: 1. Denise Wall 2. Al Blackstone 3. Kathy Blake 4. Beverly Spell 5. Robin Dawn Ryan and Kim Delgrosso […]
Seen and Heard at the Dance Teacher Summit As a longtime teacher on the convention circuit, Judy Rice works with ballet students of all ages and levels. Currently she also teaches master classes in Los Angeles, helping professional dancers solidify and maintain their technique. Here, she shares some advice for teaching a successful barre. Dance Teacher: How […]
Seen and Heard at the Dance Teacher Summit By the time he was 18, Mike Minery was already a tap innovator. It was then that he created the “shiggy bop,” a challenging step that has become a mainstay of his classes with JUMP Dance Convention. Here, he speaks with DT about teaching and choreographing tap, plus […]
Seen and Heard at the Dance Teacher Summit As the co-owner of a dance studio that’s been in her family for 40 years, Suzanne Blake Gerety knows the ins and outs of successful business practices. Besides running the studio, she and her mother, Kathy Blake, contribute to DT’s “Ask the Experts” column and lead business seminars […]
The June 1 deadline is fast approaching, but there’s still time to enter to win the 2015 Capezio Award for Choreographic Excellence. Simply upload a video of your best group choreography to the contest page at dancemedia.com, and representatives from Dance Teacher magazine and Capezio will select 15 finalists to compete during July’s Dance Teacher […]
We’re still buzzing with energy from our Dance Teacher Summit this weekend. From the special session for studio owners on Thursday to the Closing Summit panel on Sunday, incredible material was shared. Thank you dance teachers—you inspire us every month! Here are my favorite Dance Teacher Summit 2014 moments: • The absolute silence of a […]
You can catch this lady teaching at this weekend’s Dance Teacher Summit in NYC! We hope to see you there. Check out Mandy Moore’s thoughts on tricks, “floppy anger dancing” and more in her interview with DT: Moore (right) teaching at JUMP To her fans, Mandy Moore is a pioneer of contemporary dance. But the […]