With competition, concert, and recital season coming up fast, chances are that you will be hearing a lot of feedback about your performance quality from your dance teachers. Performance quality in dance is a broad term that could be used to describe a lot of different...
If I’m being honest, my journey to becoming jazz dance teacher is a long and somewhat complex one. I started taking jazz dance in addition to other dance styles as a kid, but in my pre-teen years I was terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable with the...
Are you the kind of dancer who freezes up at the very mention of improvisation in the dance studio? If so, I feel you! I spent so much of my training and early career being absolutely terrified of dance improvisation. I would improv when I was forced to, but it never...
To My Dancers, Hi, it’s me. Your Dance Teacher. Maybe it’s been a while since we’ve seen one another face to face in the dance studio like old times. Even if we have been fortunate to gather for in-person classes, you may not remember what my smile...
It’s no secret that some (if not most!) of our dance students are struggling as we enter into the new year. The last 10 months have been hard on everyone, children and teens included. For many students, dance class has been an escape, a release, a relief from...
The countdown is on to 2021, and I think it is safe to say that most of us are ready to grand jete far away from 2020 and shim-sham-shimmy into the new year. Of course, none of us know what the coming year has in store, but the changing of the calendar still offers a...
