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Winter Break Self-Care Strategies for Dance Industry Professionals

Winter Break Self-Care Strategies for Dance Industry Professionals

by shannondoolingdances | Dec 11, 2018 | For Choreographers, For Dance Studio Owners, For Dance Teachers

Why Winter Break is the perfect time for self-care   One of my favorite parts of working in the dance industry? Winter break! OK, I know that I sound like a kid who says their favorite school subject is recess, but it’s true! Having a week or two in the...
Why Your Dance Students Are Acting Out – And What You Can Do About It!

Why Your Dance Students Are Acting Out – And What You Can Do About It!

by shannondoolingdances | Oct 15, 2018 | For Dance Studio Owners, For Dance Teachers

Managing student behavior in the dance studio   At some point in their career, even the most accomplished of dance teachers is going to run into an unruly class. It can be incredibly frustrating as an educator when you feel like you are giving it your all, but...

ArtistMotherWife: The Kitchen Episode

by shannondoolingdances | Oct 10, 2018 | For Choreographers, For Dance Studio Owners, For Dance Teachers

I was standing over the kitchen sink way too early on a Sunday morning, dressed in my church clothes and frantically scrubbing a skillet, when my life almost changed forever. My son, who was six or eight months old and turning into quite the explorer, was perched...
ArtistMotherWife: Choreographing the Post-Partum Experience

ArtistMotherWife: Choreographing the Post-Partum Experience

by shannondoolingdances | May 8, 2018 | For Choreographers, For Dance Studio Owners, For Dance Teachers

ArtistMotherWife is an occasional series in which I will explore topics related to the intersection of marriage, motherhood, and maintaining one’s career in the arts.  Around 4:30am, I did the thing that all the pediatricians practically beg you not to do: I...
How to Plan the Perfect Nutcracker Ballet Workshop

How to Plan the Perfect Nutcracker Ballet Workshop

by shannondoolingdances | Oct 5, 2017 | For Dance Studio Owners, For Dance Teachers

Most people might be reaching for their Pumpkin Spice Lattes right about now, but dancers know that it’s already Nutcracker time! Love it or hate it, the seasonal favorite is here again, with tiny tots and professional dancers alike heading into the rehearsal studio...
We Created Maddie Ziegler

We Created Maddie Ziegler

by shannondoolingdances | Feb 14, 2015 | For Dance Studio Owners, For Dance Teachers

Lately, this article by Alexandra Villarreal has been circling around the internet, as have many angry responses and annoyed posts bemoaning everything from the author’s ignorance about the dance world, to the fact that HuffPo published it, to the very idea that Dance...
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