Dr. Diane Duggan teaches dance, but dance isn’t really what she teaches. “You have a 12-page lesson plan, but the lesson plan is not the point,” she says. “You have to observe what the students are actually doing with the material. Then it has to come from love.” Over her five-decade career teaching in New […]
For Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag, sharing the art form they love as widely as possible isn’t just a mission statement—it’s a calling. Whether on tour with Brown’s EVIDENCE, A Dance Company, or at their New York City home base at the Billie Holliday Theatre at Restoration Plaza in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where they […]
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 […]