Dance Informa Magazine
Dance Teacher Resources
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2.9KDance History: Literary Ballets Quiz
Do you take the time to teach your student about dance history? Giving them a quiz is a fun way to open...
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4.6KByron Dance Dynamics celebrates 20 years: How values and purpose go hand in hand
Byron Dance Dynamics is a premiere school in the Far-North Coast of Australia located in Byron Bay. It provides excellence in dance and performing...
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3.2KFor the love, or money? Can it be both?
It’s almost the end of another year, and dance studio owners just like me are putting their finishing touches on our end-of-year...
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2.5K5 simple strategies to take to maximise your holiday break
Whilst it’s well accepted that the holiday break is the ideal opportunity to disconnect from work and reconnect with family and friends,...
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3.1KRAD invites professional dancers to become teachers
In response to a growing need for second career prospects for professional dancers, the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) launched a training...
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2.6KWhat directors really wish their students knew about creating an atmosphere to thrive
As Beyoncé’s Dance Captain, Kimmie Gee knows what it takes to make it in the ultra competitive dance world. “I wish all...
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2.1KVAL: The value of evaluations in the dance studio
If you have ever considered providing written evaluations to your dance students but felt overwhelmed with the complexity of the task, you...
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7.6K‘I want to learn tricks’: How and why to teach acro at your studio
Most of us remember when acrobatics started to creep more and more into dance routines. Maybe it was the advent of So You...
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4.0KAnnie-B Parson’s ‘Drawing the Surface of Dance: A Biography in Charts’
Artistic Director of Big Dance Theater Annie-B Parson has a new book. Parson creates work that draws on, disrupts and distils classic...
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11.8KWhy aren’t more boys dancing?
Dance is great for boys and girls for so many reasons – physical activity, strength, flexibility, co-ordination, discipline, teamwork, confidence and creativity...
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4.4KQueensland Ballet program gives kindy kids ‘pizza feet’
Children from a Caboolture kindergarten have discovered the joy of dance, courtesy of a free program run by Queensland Ballet (QB) to...
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68.5KDance Teachers: Are you missing out?
Victorian Dance Festival (VDF) has recently announced its much anticipated 2020 professional development day for teachers and studio owners, Vitality Teacher Day,...
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16.0KStudio Owners: How To Deal With Difficult People!
All businesses have customers. Many have staff and business associates that you will have to work with. Sooner or later you will...
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4.2KStudio Owners: Learn your music licence rights from OneMusic
If you run a dance studio, it’s likely you will have subscriptions and memberships galore. Naturally, there are costs in running a...
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5.2KCreative Concert Ideas: How to make the most of your end of year concert
At your concert, or any performance by your studio, you have a captive audience. So why not make the most of their...
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3.4KDance teachers: Expanding your choreographic horizons
In writing this article, I was motivated by the fact that as I travel around the U.S. judging competitions and doing master...
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3.4KRAD dances toward 100
The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is the most widely taught ballet syllabus in Australia, and with over 14,000 members across 85...
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7.2KJump Dance Challenge: Competition with a difference
Jump Dance Challenge started four years ago in Melbourne, when Director Cathy Carey identified an opportunity to launch a dance competition with...
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2.8KCreative aging through dance: Assessing the current landscape, planning for the future
Adult dance is one the fastest growing areas of dance class training. The benefits of dance for all populations is well documented....
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5.7KStudio owners: Enhance your dance in 2019
Directing and creating performances year after year can be an artistic challenge! Themes or stories must be chosen, music selected, costumes considered....
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44.4KStuck in a performance theme rut? Here are 50 ideas!
Performance, recital, concerts…. Whatever you call them, it can be difficult to come up with a new theme each and every season....
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4.7KProfessional Arts Learning Series: NSW teachers developing tools and refreshing skills at Ausdance
Ausdance NSW exists to promote opportunities for dance in NSW. The organization runs a suite of programs from supporting professional dancers and...
