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 […]

Any student taking Richard Chen See’s Paul Taylor–style modern class is going to have their musicality challenged. That’s because Chen See, who spent 15 years dancing in the Taylor company, wants to make sure that dancers are able to confidently move between all kinds of phrasing and musical structures. So in his weekly classes at the Taylor Dance West studios in New York City, each exercise is set to a different time signature with varying phrase lengths.  “For instance, if I’m doing bounces at the beginning of class, I will work in a 4/4,” he says. “But then after that, […]

Aswathi K., disciple of Shijith Nambiar and Parvathy Menon, sincerely engaged with the themes she chose to present.

The only team to win the All India K-pop Contest twice, Delhi-based group of professional dancers, 3plus4crew, returns to the spotlight after nearly a decade with all eyes set on and is eyeingthe South Korea stage

Last November, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater announced that Alicia Graf Mack would become its next artistic director. Graf Mack’s trajectory seems to have prepared her for this role. During a brilliant career as a dancer with both Dance Theatre of Harlem and Ailey, she acquired two academic degrees on the side, in history and arts management. After retiring from the stage, she went on to become the director of The Juilliard School’s Dance Division, where she spent the last seven years thoughtfully expanding the august academy’s approach to dance training. Now, she has returned to Ailey, where her term as artistic director began on […]

In this DT+ Teacher Talk, Pointe‘s editor in chief, Amy Brandt, is joined by Central Michigan University faculty members Elaine DiFalco Daugherty, assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, and Heather Trommer-Beardslee, associate professor of dance and Dance Program coordinator, to discuss how dance educators can make the classroom environment safer and more respectful by implementing consent practices. Takeaways for Teachers Consent means “humans first.” Placing the autonomy of your students ahead of your personal goals for them shows respect and compassion. Presence does not equal permission. Historically in the dance world, students’ presence in class implied that […]

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The young Bharatanatyam dancer performed at the Mid-Year Dance Festival, hosted by The Music Academy, Chennai.