Dance Informa Magazine
Dance Teacher Resources
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5.5KCreative 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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3.5KDance 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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3.6KRAD 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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7.7KJump 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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3.0KCreative 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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6.2KStudio 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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46.2KStuck 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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4.8KProfessional 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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4.9KKerri 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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4.4K“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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3.9KThe 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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3.1KAre 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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2.7KStudio 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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6.2KIntroducing 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...
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3.6KHow can you give back as a studio?
We all know how integral a dance studio can be in the life of a dance student. Dance training occurs over a...
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4.2K3 Magical Words That Make Enrolment Effortless
One of the trickiest things to navigate as a studio owner, especially when coming back to semester, is transitioning your families into...
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4.3KThe Business of Dance: How mindset and systems can be game changers
What is your superpower? If you asked Claire O’Shea, the founder of the Business of Dance (BOD) Podcast, she’d probably say something about...
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5.8KCan you take your students on an overseas dance tour?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the world to train and perform with your dance family? With...
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6.5KShould you do a Dance Teaching and Management course?
So you think you can teach dance? Well, maybe you can; but can you teach it well, and can you make it...
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3.5KTo Inspire…You Must Stay Inspired!
Teaching over the long haul can be a drain, especially if you are teaching a lot of classes and are pushed to...
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3.8KIt’s time to “come together” for dance education
Come Together Dance Convention will soon return to the Mantra on View in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast. This convention gives dance teachers,...
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4.1KDance floor care: Scuff marks to ‘dye’ for
There are three nasty floor problems that plague studio owners, taking up their time and money, with very little results to show...
