Dance Informa Magazine
Dance Teacher Resources
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2.0KVAL: 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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7.5K‘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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11.5KWhy 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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4.3KQueensland 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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68.3KDance 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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4.1KStudio 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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5.1KCreative 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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3.3KDance 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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6.8KJump 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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5.6KStudio 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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43.6KStuck 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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4.6KProfessional 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...
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4.6KKerri Turner’s ‘The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers’
Kerri Turner is a dancer and dance teacher who, through force of circumstance has become an author. Her first book, The Last...
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4.2K“It’s about the joy of dancing”: Caroline O’Connor talks Silver Swans
As First World populations age and our attention focuses more and more on the issues and implications of aging, it is hardly...
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3.7KThe dance floor: Your forgotten dance partner
If you own a dance studio, run a dance school or performance space, then it’s likely that the single biggest financial outlay...
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2.9KAre your students overripe bananas or delicious mangoes?
Today, we’re asking a very important question: Are your students overripe bananas or mangoes? Now, before you think I’ve totally lost it, let...
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2.6KStudio Owners: Share Your Vision!
Over the years of coaching studio owners and talking to countless others at conferences and seminars, I have heard that one of...
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5.8KIntroducing digital backdrops: Background to the future
Technology continues its advances into all sectors of our lives, particularly in the performing arts’ sphere. The Grosh family business is not...
