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For dance teachers who teach Ballet we offer a wide variety of videos and articles from pre-school level to advanced all designed to keep you current with the latest techniques using different styles suitable for all age groups and levels. Looking for some new ideas for your pre-school dancers? Or perhaps you need some different material for barre work and center practice. Simply enter what you are looking for and the search engine will show you all the available material. The videos of barre work, pointe, variations for adage, petit allegro, pirouettes, across the floor and grande allegro show an amazing variety of combinations that will keep your Ballet classes interesting and exciting.

The “How To” section offers ideas on how to create a well balanced barre, ways to help your students increase their strength and stretch. Exercises to improve port de bras and help your students to do beats efficiently, ideas on how to improve your dancer’s arabesques and leaps. Pointe exercises designed to improve flexibility and ankle strength just to name a few of the benefits of the “How To” section. These diverse videos show time tested techniques as well as revolutionary ideas on how to get the best out of your Ballet students. All presented by our team of Master Teachers.
Articles to help you manage your classes, create lesson plans and give you answers to questions you may have about teaching or just simply to keep you motivated are always being updated and as a member of Dance Teacher Web you have hundreds of articles available to you to help you to continue to learn and create great class content and choreography for your students. The key to being a successful teacher is to continue to learn. Our articles are updated each month and are written exclusively for our members by our faculty of Master Teachers.

Dance Teacher Web offers you the opportunity to connect with Ballet teachers from around the world to help to bring the best of Ballet to your students. Access the vast library of videos and articles at any moment to help propel you and your students to the next level.

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Author

Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford is a native New Yorker and graduate of NYU Steinhardt's Dance Education Master’s Program; with a PK-12 New York State Teaching Certification. Her double-concentration Master’s Degree includes PK-12 pedagogy and dance education within the higher-education discipline. She also holds a BFA in dance performance from the UMASS Amherst 5 College Dance Program where she was a Chancellor's Talent Award recipient. Jess now works extensively with children, adolescents and professionals as choreographer and teacher and conducts national and international master-classes specializing in the genres of modern, contemporary, musical theatre and choreography-composition. Jess’ national and international performance career includes works such as: The National Tour of Guys & Dolls, The European Tour of Grease, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, Salute to Dudley Moore at Carnegie Hall, guest-dancer with the World Famous Pontani Sisters and IMPULSE Modern Dance Company. Jess has been a faculty member for the Perichild Program & Peridance Youth Ensemble & taught contemporary and jazz at the historic New Dance Group and 92nd Street Y in NYC. She was Company Director at the historic Steffi Nossen School of Dance/Dance in Education Fund and in 2008 traveled to Uganda where she taught creative-movement to misplaced children. The experience culminated with Jess being selected as a featured instructor at the Queen's Kampala Ballet & Modern Dance School. She has conducted workshops for the cast of LA REVE at the Wynn, Las Vegas and recently taught at the 2011 IDS International Dance Teacher Conference at The Royal Ballet in London, UK. She is also on faculty for the annual Dance Teacher Web Conferences in Las Vegas, NV. Currently, Jess is a faculty member at the D'Valda & Sirico Dance & Music Centre and master teacher & adjudicator for various national and international dance competitions. Recently, she has finished her NYU Master’s thesis research on the choreographic process of technically advanced adolescent dancers and is the creator of “PROJECT C;” a choreography-composition curriculum for the private studio sector. Jess is also faculty member, contributing writer and presenter in the choreography and “how to” teaching segments on the celebrated danceteacherweb.com. For more info, visit her website at www.jrizzo.net.

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