Dance Life

DanceTeacher Summit July 2009

The DanceTeacher Summit will take place on July 27-29, 2009 in New York City at the Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas. Please check the website out for more information.

Parsons Dance Summer Intensive

Parsons Dance will hold it’s summer intensive from June 8-20, 2009 at Marymount Manhattan College. To see more about the intensive please go to the Parsons web site. Photo credit: Parsons Dance

Gold School end of season show

 The Gold School will be having their end of season show on Saturday May 30, 2009 at 2:00 pm at the Brockton High School.  If you are interested in tickets please call 508.586.4653 or e-mail us at thegoldschool{at}aol.com.    Join us for what promises to be a great show!

Savian Glover visits Manhattan

Savion Glover is a dancer who really shows passion for what he does.  His show A Solo in Time was performed at the Joyce Theater in New York City.  Along with two other dancers Glover performed with background music and at other times performed with a singer.  I really enjoyed when the three dancers performed [...]

Summer Camps 2009

It is not too early to look into Summer Dance Camps and training.  My daughters have attended some wonderful Summer Dance Camps including, New York City Dance Alliance, Julliard Summer Intensive,  and The Gold School Summer Intensive (Massachusetts).  Each one of these camps provides technique work, core training introduction, nutrition information, and some pure fun.  [...]

Center Stage: Turn It Up

DanceLife Conferene 09

It is my pleasure to invite you to the 2009 DanceLife Teacher Conference in Orlando, August 3-6 at the luxurious Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort. With the philosophy that dance educators all share the same passion, challenges and life experiences, we focus on a curriculum that rejuvenates the dance teacher spirit. The classroom track will [...]

Dance Parents can be an asset

Many dance studios sometime dread seeing some parents on a daily basis because of their high maintenance.  These types of parents can be controlled if the atmosphere is positive but this must start with the director.  The studio owner/director must set policies and procedures for parents that create a positive atmosphere.  Without the parents helping, [...]

Dance program on the cutting edge….the bad side of the blade.

Higher education has it’s challenges with the softening economy.  However, the the University of Tenessee-Knoxville has begun to phase out it’s dance minor as it is faced with a $11.1 million budget cut.  The program has 33 dance minors and a total of 300 who are registered for dance classes.  The students launched a 280 [...]

Auditioning for College Dance Programs

The college auditioning process for dancers and their parents can be overwhelming. Scheduling the auditions, paying for the auditions (usually in addition to the college application fee), preparing resumes, completing photo sessions, editing videos, and finally traveling to all the auditions with hotels, gas, and time is all included in the process of auditioning. [...]