Each summer, Dance Teacher celebrates educators who have made a profound impact in the field. Our 2025 Dance Teacher Award recipients are trailblazers, community-builders, and legacy-keepers whose influence in their students’ lives—and in the larger dance world—is deep and far-reaching. Stay tuned for the official announcement of this year’s honorees later this month, as well as articles about what makes each of them so special. Of course, our four Dance Teacher Award winners aren’t the only top-notch educators we’re spotlighting in August. For example, we’ll introduce you to former Pilobolus performer Matt Del Rosario, who created Flow Kākou to share […]
How Dondraico Johnson Created Monstrous Movement for Disney’s “Zombies 4”
In 2021, Dondraico Johnson was at home, spending time with his nephews, when he learned he’d be interviewing to choreograph for Disney’s kid-friendly, music-and-dance-heavy Zombies franchise. “When I said ‘Zombies’ in front of a 6- and a 9-year-old, they went crazy in the house,” he says. “At that moment I was like, ‘I have to book this job.’ ” Today, with choreography credits for Zombies 3 and Zombies 4 under his belt, Johnson is just as big a Zombies fan as his nephews are. He stresses the importance of using dance to connect with younger generations by meeting them where they […]