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DTW LIVE 2017 RECAP & REFLECTION

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Blog

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Dance Teachers

Well.... It’s a wrap! We can’t believe DTW Live Conference & Expo 2017 has come and gone already but what an incredible few days it’s been. So much to reflect on. We must start with saying how this, being our biggest year yet was due to not only a record breaking number of attendees but the energy they brought with them. From Day #1, everyone was ready to share and learn and get everything they could out of the event and that was our hope and wish for everyone who attended. The attendees to faculty to our wonderful staff was buzzing with enthusiasm, positivity and readiness! It's really been so exciting for us to come in and share with everyone.... and it keeps getting better year after year! You all are our inspiration.

What we set out with DTW LIVE was to create an oasis for Dance Teachers and Studio Owners where the focus was on them, their mission, their vantage point, challenges, goals, professional development as well as artistry. With your input and insightful thoughts and discussions, we’re proud to have created a network where we can come together and share a common bond while continuing education from some of the best in the business. What we want you to understand is that while you may be learning from us, we also learn from you, our peers. It’s this mutual respect and dynamic which is what makes Dance Teacher Web so successful and we thank you for your continued openness and desire to learn….and DANCE!

As we are all still coming down from an amazing few days, the highlights are endless. We’re proud to have presented a schedule which was so versatile, the types of classes and seminars offered hopefully had a little something for everyone. We overheard a lot of teachers saying they were trying new classes they never have before and that was music to our ears! We loved hearing how attendees were open and eager to try new things and that’s exactly our mission for this conference.

We also hope everyone enjoyed the Expo events and took the opportunity to meet with our incredible vendors who couldn’t have been more generous and excited to meet and talk with our attendees! Nobody throws a Vegas Party like us and we saw all of you rocking out at our Opening Night Party, which was a huge success thanks to our sponsors at Harlequin Floors. Costume Gallery and our Poolside Fashion Show Breakfast was also another favorite amongst attendees and faculty and we hope with all the hard work you all put in, you found some time to play as well! You deserve it! It also gave all of us the opportunity to meet, mingle and chat with all of you; which we absolutely love doing.

So, with that said, we hope you walk away with enough inspiration and knowledge to get you pumped for the start of your new season. We know your students will be on the receiving end of all this new, juicy, rich information you come away with and we can’t wait to hear the stories of your upcoming success and progress.

Once again, we want to send out a heartfelt thank you to everyone involved for another wonderful DW Live Conference & Expo this year. Your energy and desire to learn is contagious and makes us want to continually bring you the newest, freshest ideas in the art of teaching dance and running your studio! Our commitment to you will continue to bring you new insight and tips and tools of the trade while we gear up for another amazing conference in 2018! We can’t wait to see you there!! Thanks to all! Have a wonderful rest of your summer season and kick off to fall!

See you in the dance studio,

Jess and the entire DTW Family

 

 

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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