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Our Dance Teacher Summit gets started tomorrow afternoon with a special studio owners roundtable before classes and seminars begin on Friday. Here’s are some recital ticketing tips from Danie Beck, just to get you excited. Beck owned Dance Unlimited for over 40 years. She and our other ambassadors will be on hand this weekend to […]
According to Caldwell, a great lyrical piece begins with the music. Our Dance Teacher Summit kicks off on Friday, and the full schedule has been posted online. This year we welcome some new faces to the teaching roster, including tWitch and the one and only Twyla Tharp! After last year’s Summit, we spoke to Doug […]
Though she sold Dance Unlimited in 2011, Danie Beck has 55-plus years of experience, and she remains involved in the industry, providing consulting services to other studio owners. She freshens up her business knowledge each year at the Dance Teacher Summit, where she’s been an ambassador for four years. She spoke to DT about coming […]
As our 2014 Dance Teacher Summit approaches, we’re getting excited to try out some new dance styles during the three days of classes and seminars. Tony Dovolani’s ballroom crash course is always a crowd favorite, even if we can’t quite figure out how to move our hips like he does… An Emmy-nominated choreographer and winner of multiple U.S. and […]
Today we’re featuring DT Summit ambassador Bonnie Schuetz, who has owned Boni’s Dance & Performing Arts Studio in The Woodlands and Spring, Texas, for more than 30 years. We spoke to her about keeping her dancers healthy during performance season and asked her to reflect on her first year as an ambassador. Boni’s Dance & Performing Arts […]
Balancing work and family life can be a constant challenge for studio owners. Our Dance Teacher Summit offers a chance to chat with peers about this and other shared struggles of studio life. Today, we’re featuring Robin Dawn Ryan, who began competing before her 8th birthday and spent much of her adolescence logging additional training […]
Dance Teacher Summit ambassador Carole Royal has been a Summit attendee for years, and she never fails to implement what she learns in business seminars and from other teachers. “The Dance Teacher Summit has completely changed my business,” she says. “I’ve utilized many suggestions from teachers across the country, like creating a new program for preschoolers and updating […]
Every year at our Dance Teacher Summit, a crew of experienced studio owners act as ambassadors, leading seminars throughout the event and chatting with teachers at a booth in the exhibit hall. When DT spoke with ambassador Tiffany Henderson, owner/director of Tiffany’s Dance Studio, she shared memorable moments and useful info she gleaned from her […]
Seen & Heard At the Dance Teacher Summit Gregg Russell teaching at a workshop in Jackson, MS As b-boying gained popularity in the early 1980s, Gregg Russell was a child, training in tap and, later, jazz. He picked up a few breaking moves from friends and TV, but just for fun, he says. That attitude […]
Seen & Heard At the Dance Teacher Summit According to Caldwell, a great lyrical piece begins with the music. Commercial dance mainstay Doug Caldwell worked on films like Staying Alive and A Chorus Line, as well as the TV show “Charlie’s Angels,” before beginning to teach at conventions in the 1980s. Caldwell says he was […]