“I still learn something every time I go to the Summit,” says Dance Teacher Summit ambassador Bonnie Schuetz, who has operated Boni’s Dance & Performing Arts Studio in the Houston, Texas, area for more than 30 years. “I think my favorite thing is just to sit around that roundtable and talk.” At last year’s, she […]
When Ilana Morgan earned her PhD from Texas Woman’s University in 2015, she was eager to serve her community of Denton, Texas. She crossed paths with the Denton County Juvenile Detention Center high school principal Anthony Sims and proposed to bring dance to the school’s detained youth. After a year and half of planning, that […]
In 1992 while studying early childhood education at Texas A&M University, Lisa Shed decided to make the bold move of starting her own dance studio, Lisa’s Dance Connection, 90 miles away in her hometown of Temple, Texas. Three days a week she would make the commute to teach her eight young students, then wake up […]