How Jessica Gaynor, Artistic Director of Young Dancemakers Company, Helps NYC Teens Find Their Choreographic Voices
Dance Teacher spoke to Gaynor about how YDC helps students explore their choreographic voices and present their work with confidence.
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Dance Teacher Award Honoree Alice Teirstein Makes Dance More Accessible to New York City’s Teenagers
Alice Teirstein has built an entire career “passing on to others what I had received from dance,” she says. She founded the dance program at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the 1970s, and in 1996, the Young Dancemakers Company, bringing creative dance education to public school students.
New York Teens Make Dances in Alice Teirstein’s Unique Five-Week Summer Intensive
The performance started like any other. Parents in the audience fiddled around with video cameras to make sure they wouldn’t miss a moment of what was to come; dancers poked their heads out from behind the wings to see how many people were in the audience. But this wasn’t your average dance recital. The members […]