Join us in celebrating our 2025 Dance Teacher Award honorees on Tuesday, October 7th, at The Loft at City Winery in New York City. Doors open at 11 a.m., and the event will run from 11:30-1:30. Light refreshments will be served.  Get your tickets here! The annual Dance Teacher Awards honor extraordinary educators for their contributions to the field. These are instructors who have a unique or outsized impact on their students and community, thanks to their experience, knowledge, forward-thinking pedagogy, and commitment to dancers’ overall well-being. The 2025 honorees are:  Lori Belilove, artistic director of the Isadora Duncan Dance […]

Piyal Bhattacharya, founder and director of the Kolkata-based Chidakash Kalalay Centre of Art and Divinity, employs a distinctive training methodology that enables actors to become attuned to both their inner and outer spaces.

Before online tools made dance instruction universally accessible, honing skills beyond one’s local school was much more challenging. Growing up in small-town Illinois prior to the age of the internet, Quinn Callahan, owner and founder of The Rock Center for Dance in Las Vegas, was determined to succeed despite limited resources. As a student at Kim Kallas Studio of Dance, Callahan would come home from dance class so eager to implement what she’d learned that she’d create her own mini-syllabuses. Building on this unconventional practice, Callahan has crafted a training program, Elements, that serves as a launching pad to cast […]

Whether you and your students took the summer off or you’ve been busy with camps and intensives, back-to-school season is special. It’s a time to return to beloved and comfortable routines. It’s also a time to plan for the year ahead—to outline new goals and to implement new initiatives. Starting strong in September can set you up for success through spring recitals and beyond.  To inspire you this month, we’re sharing interviews with Tai Jimenez, director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem School; Endalyn T. Outlaw, dean of the School of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of […]

Abhinaya Darpanam, which stands out for its granular focus on movement, gesture and expressive technique, lives on vibrantly in practice halls, classrooms and memories of dancers.

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Anand Satchidanandan performed on the last day of the Acharya Bhartham festival, hosted by Natyarangam in Chennai.

From director shifts to faculty appointments, here are the major dance educator moves you should know about from summer 2025. Alberto Blanco has been appointed principal of The Sarasota Ballet School, succeeding Jennifer Welch Cudnik, who departs to join Kansas City Ballet School as principal of its daytime program. Harald Uwe Kern has been named director of the School of Ballet San Antonio. Sarah Lane and Marie Zvosec have been named co-directors of the School of Nimbus. Lane will lead the ballet program and direct the school’s new studio in Summit, New Jersey, while Zvosec will lead the modern and […]