Getting dancers to retain choreography is a valuable skill set. There are many good dancers that struggle picking up choreography in a limited amount of time. This affects how they perform in auditions, self-confidence at conventions, and working with guest choreographers that come to your studios. Learn tips and exercises on how to help them improve their memory game. This is a game changer for any dance
This master class features England's to hip hop choreographer demonstrating great ways to teach locking and more!
Hidden Rhythms is all about the sheer joy of tap dance. From the very opening, energy kicks in with the down beat making it impossible to not move your feet. The dance includes trading rhythms with each other, counterpoint, and polyrhythms.
Matthew Powell presents an in-depth look into the very basics of ballet for your Beginning level students. This class will provide foundational barre and center exercises that focus on perfecting line, placement, turnout and extension. Additional exercises will cover the introduction of various turns and jumps, and keeping your students focused and engaged throughout class by creating a fun and nurturing environment in the studio.
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.
