VIDEO VAULT: TEACHING MULTIPLE PIROUETTES

**Dance teachers! Learn a wonderful way to teach multiple pirouettes that will help your students turn like a top with one of our favorite DTW faculty members Jessica Smith-Epting!**

STUDIO OWNERS & DANCE FACULTY: HOW TO REPRESENT THE UNITED …

We all recognize with good parenting that the most effective way to ensure consistency and clarity in setting expectations is to represent a united front. When children see follow-through coming from both parents, it lets them know their parents are …

ENGAGING SPINE, PELVIS & CORE AWARENESS IN YOUR DANCERS!

As dance teachers, we are always trying to get dancers to understand the importance of the core, spine and pelvis. Without proper fundamental association of anatomy, dancers at some point will become limited in terms of their progression and visceral …

Advanced Ballet Lesson Plan-Allegro

Ballet Lessson Plan: Centre Point Work

IT’S SHOWTIME! FIVE TIPS TO EFFECTIVELY CLEANING DANCE NUMB…

OK everyone, we are at that time of year when we are setting numbers and need to give thought about the ones that are just about finished. While coming up with clever concepts and original choreography is a given, sometimes …

DEALING WITH STUDENT-TEACHER SOCIALIZING OUTSIDE THE DANCE …

Studio Owners, you work hard to take time to interview teachers and carefully select those who will make a beneficial addition to your team. The right-blend of faculty makes for well-rounded training for your students; creating an experience and exposing …

DANCE STUDIO OWNERS: TIPS TO HELP YOUR FACULTY CLEAN THEIR …

Once your students know their choreography now comes the tough part. Keeping it fresh and clean. Plus we need to communicate with the dancers so that they understand that it is human nature to start to modify movement to make …

INTRO TO PATHWAYS DANCE ACTIVITY

Teachers! Progressing your young dancers from stationary to transitory movement can be a process which takes some time. Getting dancers to understand spatial awareness and how to navigate different pathways and formation changes will be integral as they progress and …

TIDYING UP DANCE CLASS APPEARANCE

OK…call me old-school but in recent years I have seen a trend developing that has me wondering what has happened to "professional appearance" being one of the important lessons we are taught in a dance class. Isn't presentation still something …

DEALING WITH EXCESSIVE ABSENCES IN DANCE CLASS

OK teachers, it's that time of year when we're in the post-holiday, dead of winter stretch where our students are beginning to drop like flies. While it's an inevitable ritual we have all become accustomed to, what do we do …

What Do You Say To Taking Chances?

Surviving The First Five Years In The Studio Business

QUICK TIPS TO ENHANCING THE DANCE CLASS LEARNING CURVE

Ever think of what you can do to enhance the learning curve in your dance class? While dancers are often taught "how" sometimes we forget the "why's," "when's," and "where's" things came from and happened…. In a time of abundant …

LETS DANCE! ENJOY THIS FUN DANCE COMMERCIAL FOR SLEEP INNOV…

Check Out This Fun Commercial For The Mattress Company Sleep Innovations Choreographed By Dance Teacher Web Founders Steve Sirico and Angela D'Valda Sirico. A Big thank you to all of the terrific dancers Mark Stuart, Michelle Camaya, CJ Tyson, Mindy …

GIVING THOUGHT TO SET WARM-UPS

The addition of a set-warm-up to your curriculum for pre-professional dancers has its advantages and disadvantages. This week I wanted to give teachers something to think about in terms of what might work best for you and your students. A …