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Ailey Arts In Education & Community Programs (AAIE) has partnered with 92NY’s Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) to launch Finding Grace, a new K–12 dance residency and curriculum inspired by Ronald K. Brown’s celebrated work Grace. Led by Ailey teaching artists, the program fosters social-emotional learning while inviting students to study Brown’s movement style, create movement, […]
Creative Movement classes exploring space with scarves. Teenaged students competing in groups to test their knowledge of ballet body positions and other terminology. Adults experimenting with pirouette tricks in independent class time. These are all ways that “play” can contribute to ballet pedagogy. Play-based approaches can encourage experimentation, engagement, and self-discovery—and not just for the […]
Watch this hour-long conversation with Deborah Damast, associate professor and director of dance education at NYU Steinhardt, and Nancy Lushington, associate professor of dance at Marymount Manhattan College, to gain insights into higher education opportunities for dance educators looking to pursue ongoing professional development—including choosing the right degree/program, budgeting and managing finances, navigating career trajectories […]
Register now for our next DT+ Teacher Talk, “Navigating Continuing Education and Professional Development,” With Deborah Damast and Nancy Lushington, on Thursday, August 15, at 12 pm EDT. In this live hour-long Zoom discussion, Dance Teacher’s editorial director, Reanne Rodrigues, joins Deborah Damast, associate professor and director of dance education at NYU Steinhardt, and Nancy Lushington, […]
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 […]