Dance Teacher Resources Archives - Page 7 of 11

Mid-year slump: How to inspire your students this winter

Everything seems easier when the sun is shining. The birds are chirping, and there’s a spring in your step. Soon enough, summer...

Biomechanics educator Sophie Louise Briggs. Photo by Suzy Cooper.

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Advanced Teaching Methods for Posture and Pirouettes

Posture and Pirouettes: Cueing the dancer is one of a series of workshops run by biomechanics educators Bea Glendenning and Sophie Louise...

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Dance Studio Owner Wellbeing: Dealing with failure

In our Dance Studio Owner Wellbeing series, Dance Informa offers strategies to manage positive wellbeing whilst also navigating the demands of running a dance...

Sam Govoni. Photo by Peter Kaskons Photography.

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Step by step: Help your students dance through growth spurts

That “gawky” feeling – when limbs feel too long for one’s body, as if not really their own. In the pre-teen and...

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What you put on your dance floor to clean it could kill it!

You may have established a “no drinks allowed” (except for water) rule at your studio, but still there are the inevitable spills,...

Fiona Hulands instructing students. Photo courtesy of Hulands

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RAD Australia offers Teaching Certificate for Professional Dancers

The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Australia is preparing to bring an exciting programme for professional dancers to the Southern Hemisphere for...

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Dance Studio Owner Wellbeing: Take a ‘Pause’

Over the coming months, Dance Informa will offer some strategies to manage positive wellbeing whilst also navigating the demands of running a dance...

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Dance Teacher Web LIVE partners with Royal Academy of Dance

Dance Teacher Web LIVE and the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) recently announced an official partnership through which RAD teachers may earn...

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Misty Lown in Australia to teach at VDF this month

The Energetiks Victorian Dance Festival (VDF) continues to roll out exciting instructor announcements. One of the latest is American entrepreneur Misty Lown, who will be a...

Emily Bufferd teaching at Broadway Dance Center. Photo by Ali Koinoglou.

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8 New Year’s tips for teachers

As you go back to the studio in 2018 after a much needed Christmas break, it’s important to be inspired and rejuvenated to...

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Dance Teachers: How to Improve Relationships with Your Students and Employer

One of the basic needs of mankind is to feel accepted. Knowing this is the secret to establishing and maintaining great relationships...

Het Nationale Ballet's Remi Wörtmeyer in 'Symphony in Three Movements'. Photo by Angela Sterling.

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An ode to dance teachers: We are forever grateful

Dance teachers give, give, give. They share their knowledge, passion and joy, which become not only necessary as we grow technically as...

VDF Director Kate Meade awards the Dancers Fund to regional private studio, Richardson Dance Studio of Swan Hill at VDF 2017. Photo by Belinda Strodder.

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Victorian Dance Festival gives back with Dancers Fund initiative for Studios

In a relatively small arts and cultural market like Australia, with its heavy dependence on public funding, it’s easy to get overlooked,...

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Studio Owners: Make the Most of Your Dance 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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Uniting the dance community with ‘Ready Set Dance’

When five dance school directors from four of the largest schools in greater Sydney were brought together to collaborate on community dance...

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From baby to teen: How do you retain young students?

So many kids enroll when four to six years old, but how do you keep them at your studio in the years...

Dancers gearing up for a performance backstage. Photo by Marina Birch

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How to survive and thrive at concert time

Do you love or loathe performance time? “That” time of year. Performance time. The time of year that makes dance studio owners and...

Tricia Gomez (center) of Rhythm Works Integrative Dance. Photo by Arthur Crenshaw.

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Rhythm Works Integrative Dance workshops come to Australia

For the first time, Rhythm Works Integrative Dance (RWID) will offer in-person certification workshops in Australia this September. RWID aims to offer...