Dance skills

About a year ago (maybe more – time flies!), someone in a dance teachers’ group on Facebook posed an interesting question: What are the 5 skills that you think are most important for your students to learn? This was a particularly vexing topic for me, because I had a hard time even deciding what counts ...

Dance skills are life skills! Discover some of the many life skills that students learn through dance training and how they will benefit students in their lives outside of the dance studio. There are so many ways that dance training benefits students and improves their lives, helping them find success in every aspect of their lives.

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This dance blog post features 10 choreography prompts that help choreographers and dance students learn modern dance composition skills like space, level, tempo, rhythm, pathway, accumulation, retrograde, and more! Ignite your creativity and give your students some choreography inspiration with these prompts. They provide choreography ideas for creating original work, revising existing choreography, or exercises in dance composition classes. #choreographyideas #choreographyinspiration

It's tempting to dismiss relaxation techniques as just feel-good practices. However, the science behind mental relaxation provides concrete evidence of its benefits: Neural Pathways: The Mechanism:...

You can teach the elements of dance effectively, even if you're not a specialist! All you need are the right resources.

Help your dancers build confidence when learning a new skill by conducting a "skill analysis" and then practicing with the right tools.