Common Ground: for teachers and students | Dancers’ Half-Dozen
If you’ve been thinking about spicing up your normal exercise routine, look no further. Dance Studio Life asked a range of practitioners, all of whom work with dancers, for their favorite stretching...
View ArticleDramatizing Dance
Dance teachers have plenty of experience in training young dancers to stay in sync with the rest of the class and imitate what we demonstrate. At the same time, we ask them to dance with personality...
View ArticleFun Facts About Music
Music is vital equipment for dance teachers and choreographers, both in the classroom and onstage. A basic understanding of music theory is a powerful tool that allows us to get the most out of the...
View ArticleTechno Dance
Wayne McGregor is as passionate a man as you’ll hope to find among choreographers. Cerebral and articulate, he is as much an intellectual as an artist. Continue reading
View ArticleSmooth Selling
Are you thinking about selling your business? I did, and here’s my advice to current school owners: Protect your hard work and investment and start planning early. Continue reading
View ArticleRoller-Coaster to Retirement
I always thought I would know when the time came to retire. I knew that my studio, Little Rock [AR] School of Dance, which had been such a dominant part of my life for 31 years, could continue to be...
View ArticleA Door Closes, a Window Opens
What should a dance teacher do when she is informed that the building she has rented for 24 years has been sold? My school, Janette Brown Studio of Dance, was well established in Baltimore City, MD, so...
View ArticleSmaller But Happier
Owning my own dance studio was always a goal of mine. And opening my first studio in the mid-1980s also meant that striving for more was almost inevitable. I had done everything right—I had the dance...
View ArticleMusical Theater on the March
What is it about a song and dance act that makes people want to jump onstage? At the Texas State Thespian Festival, after watching kids in dancewear tote heavy dance bags and noting a schedule that...
View ArticleFor the Love of Dance
Rosemarie DeLutis Boyden ran her family’s school, DeLutis School of Dance in Mansfield, MA, for 25 years. Now an adviser to the school’s current owner, she teaches at other local studios and is...
View ArticleTeaming Up
You don’t need to go to Radio City Musical Hall to see a fabulous kick line anymore—it may be happening on a 10-yard line near you. And I am not talking about football. Continue reading
View ArticleBallroom Blitz
On today’s dance scene, and in the public eye, ballroom dance is exploding, making a feverish resurgence. As a former United States Latin Ballroom dance champion and representative to the World Latin...
View ArticleBallet Scene | Goodbye Tradition, Hello Future
My school, New Hampshire School of Ballet, had had a long tradition of a primarily ballet curriculum when I purchased it from my aunt in 1990. But after three years, I realized that today’s students...
View ArticleTeacher in the Spotlight | Tanya Bleil-Geiselman
I began as an assistant at 14, then became a full-time instructor. At 15 I began teaching dance in my parents’ basement to make money for college. Continue reading
View ArticleThinking Out Loud | Lift a Rock, Watch the Sky
I don’t remember a time when dance didn’t seize me with a wild happiness. May Day: a parade in the Manhattan playground, tricycles tricked out in crepe paper and fringe, and a gaggle of us 3-, 4-, and...
View ArticleMail | October 2007
Recently, while on a flight to nationals, I was reading [the July 2007 issue] of Dance Studio Life. As I read the story “Middle School Girls Gone Wild,” I had no idea what lay ahead. Continue reading
View ArticleOn My Mind | October 2007
How long has it been since you caught your reflection in the mirror and thought about how happy you are just to be you? Continue reading
View Article2 Tips for Teachers | Moving Steps
Tip #1 For children ages 5 to 8, start the class with moving steps, before they stand still for demi-plié or tendu. Suitable steps would be gallops, runs on a high demi-pointe, and what I call...
View ArticleAsk Rhee Gold
Dear Rhee, I have four boys in my school; two of them are approaching their teenage years. Last year I started to notice that the older boys should be wearing dance belts, but as a female teacher I...
View ArticleOctober 2007 | Table of Contents
COLUMNS Ask Rhee Gold 2 Tips for Teachers On My Mind Departments Mail Thinking Out Loud | Lift a Rock, Watch the Sky Teacher in the Spotlight | Tanya Bleil-Geiselman Feature Articles Ballet Scene |...
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