Dance Teachers

Anyone who grew up dancing competitively knows that dance teachers carry more than one title. In addition to dance instructor, choreographer, and in my own dance teacher's case, Checchetti Queen, some other jobs include second mom, drama mediator, dance mom wrangler, business owner, and more. All of...

Daily rehearsal of young diligent ballerinas at gymnastic school with expirienced teacher.

Dance Teacher is designed exclusively for dance educators with advice and inspiration for your teaching practice and your studio business.

San Francisco Ballet’s longtime artistic director, Helgi Tomasson, handed the reins to Tamara Rojo last December. But his presence will be strongly felt when the 2023 season opens on January 20 with next@90, a three-week festival of new works programmed by Tomasson. next@90 brings in a small, diverse group of nine choreographers, including four choreographers of color and four women, and nine premieres presented over three programs. #ballet #sfb #sanfranciscoballet #rehearsal #choreography

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The French definition might translate to "shouldering," but épaulement is actually much more than that. "It's not just a superficial turn of the shoulders—it creates energy from the inside out," says Marisa Albee, faculty member at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. It's also what can elevate technically proficient dancing to something nuanced, dynamic and truly exciting. "Think of épaulement as the punctuation at the end of a sentence," says Brooke Moore, a faculty member for BalletMet's…