Tag: deborah damast

In a typical week as a clinical associate professor and director of the dance education program at New York University, Deborah Damast teaches both creative dance to 4- and 5-year-olds at Little Red School House and technique and pedagogy to full-time graduate students at NYU. It’s a variety and synergy that suits the choreographer, dance-education […]

When I went back to school last fall to earn my MFA, I was surprised by how much dance in higher education had changed since my undergraduate experience 10 years before—and how much it hadn’t. Diasporic dance forms, such as African and hip hop, for example, are now much more integral to curriculums, but ballet […]