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Learn all about making dance class more accessible for dancers with sensory sensitivities. Ensure your students are comfortable and supported with the dancewear you choose. Understanding how the brain processes sensory input can help teachers accommodate students who need modifications and support to get into an optimal learning state.
Through intermediate cha-cha choreography, we will explore new ways to move your body, isolations, and different types of travel. We will also touch on timing, placement, and how to apply what you already know from classical training. After attending this class, you will be able to recognize and apply basic principles of cha-cha timing and movement, step out of your comfort zone for exponential growth, and help guide your students to a better understanding of the cha-cha.
Trying to connect with tired, burned out, non motivated tweens and teens is exhausting. The stress of covid, social media and school is very overwhelming and everyday I teach these dancers it gets harder and harder to connect with their young minds. This class will provide tools on how to build confidence, promote self improvement, praise effort instead of the outcome, teach assertiveness skills & encourage positive self talk all while learning to find the JOY in DANCE.
This class is a fusion of jazz, latin, and hip hop techniques. We are going to explore age appropriate grooves and steps to incorporate into your next routine. Nikky will provide you with tips to keep your young dancers intrigued and engaged during class.
This session will be focusing in on common tap questions like: How do you get kids to stay in time with the music? How do you teach kids to have clear, quality, tap sounds? Bring all your questions and we will tackle them today!
Jason presents some great ideas on how to develop your tap classes including warmup, technique and choreography
Watch DTW Founder Steve Sirico in this master class as he takes you through three jazz-funk combos for beginner, intermediate and advanced. Each combo is based on using some fun old school funk moves but has elements of technique that is age and level appropriate.
Contemporary dance is a vast genre, rich with a variety of styles and movement profiles. Class will explore how the elements of space and differing dynamics can enhance and alter a dancer's execution and stylization of movement to broaden their depth and scope of nuanced interpretation.
In this class, we will learn basic tumbling skills (flips, rolls, jumps, & kicks) as well as building strength, coordination and flexibility. You will be guided to learn unique and fun obstacle courses to help develop various body strength
Join Ray for an inspiring jazz combination for your advanced students focusing on style, flair and technique.
This session will present ideas on how to actually prevent your students (and yourself) from falling into technical traps that make everything more difficult and cumbersome! This class will help to discover the root of most major problems in tap dance execution. From “Lock Legged Syndrome”, to “Standitis” find the cures you and your students have been desperate for and unlock your feet for tap dance glory!
It is difficult to attract all types of students into Ballet classes, typically we are told that the movement is too slow or that they just want to do Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary or any other type of dance styles. In this class I will give you some ideas of different, fun, variations and costuming that will help your students fall in love with Ballet or at the very least appreciate how important the technique is for every style of Dance.
This is a fiery, uptempo, Latin tap which emphasizes the syncopation of Latin music that are apparent in the use of snaps, claps, and short verbalization. This style lends itself to audience appeal with its ear pleasing musicality, eye catching flare, and naturally infused attitude that give Latin that spicy kick.
Class will explore beginner-advanced improvisation and how to make it accessible to a wide variety of students and levels. Fundamental concepts will include: What is an improvisational score? What is “free dance?” “How do I teach improvisation?” “How do I make improvisation fun, accessible and relevant for all students?” “How can I use improvisation in my own creative process?” Improvisational directives, Improvisational inspirations, Improvisational progressions
Denise Wall presents a center floor exercise first to help the teachers to get their dancers to work through their feet. Also will explore how to get your dancers to use all 4 dimensions of their legs in their plie’ so they will move out from themselves.
This movement based session pinpoints how to use the body’s anatomy in order to increase a dancer’s technical ability while at the same time reducing injuries. We tackle the concepts of exhaustion and overuse injuries, while also breaking down how to take something as complex as the anatomy and simplify it in order to connect to any age group and technique level.
