Starting with chainne turns and progressing to pirouettes and all of the basic turns in between. Breaking down the sequence of turns and the technique used to accomplish a clean double, from the spotting of the head to the coordination of the entire body. To be concise, balance, coordination and spotting as well as making sure that your weight distribution is correct.
Failure, it’s a part of life but is failing necessarily bad? National Motivational Speaker Robert Landau will show you how important failure can really be in the process of moving forward, professionally and personally.
Aaron is back with some great tap tips that will help your students understand Standard vs Syncopation timing
Simone presents great tips for creating a safe space where your little ones can grow and funnel some of that energy into a positive dance direction and experience. There will be some combo tips, class flow ideas, and a few props to add to the fun!
This class will focus on Coordination, together we will learn Basic Coordination exercises and the famous "Charles Kelley Kick Exercise" which will help your students to gain excellent control and strength. The class will also demonstrate a jazz combination focusing on rhythm and transitions incorporating the elements of coordination, explosive kicks and leaps that are so typical of the Charles Kelley technique to help your students excel!
This class structure includes a combination of house-inspired footwork and trendy grooves that you can incorporate in your next dance routine. Come prepared for a challenge and get ready to sweat!
Pandemics, budgeting, parent and student issues, faculty problems are just the start for what can create stress in the life of a studio owner. After 35 years in business Steve Sirico will share with you how to identify, control and release stress. Don’t go into the new season feeling burnt out. Use the tips he will show you to refresh and recharge each and every day
Nikky will share some great tips to help your beginner students master the art of truning
Through discussion and acting exercises, Bonnie will go through 20 steps to help find a way to develop dance pieces and the character within those pieces. This class will help those choreographing and developing works put together pieces that will mean more to the artist performing and also to those who are watching them being performed.
In this session James will help you in creating short pieces of choreography and learn ways to get students interested in their own creative expression.
Class will focus on exercises that you can include in daily ballet classes to help strengthen and improve petite and grand allegro.
This class will demonstrate fun exercises to introduce the concept of turning, give examples of teaching a pirouette for the first time, and share tips and ideas on how to improve the technique of your students’ pirouettes.
Do you need to sharpen your sales skills? Did you know that service is the highest form of selling? Join Misty Lown, studio owner and leader of More Than Just Great Dancing!®, to learn seven sales truths and what they mean for your studio in the upcoming season.
This class will take you back to 101 with how to releve’ because if you want to be good at turns you need to practice balancing. Discover teaching tips on how to spot turns a little different than how we as teachers were trained and it helps your students with the science of turns and more!
The next installment in our series for dance studio owners on topics that are important to YOU! Each month DTW founders and Veteran Studio Owners Steve Sirico and Angela D'Valda Sirico will tackle a new hot topic with tips and powerful suggestions on solutions that have worked for them. Enjoy!
This class breaks down the basic elements of movement in tap (as well as touching on other genres) so you can connect the dots for dancers of all levels.
