The requirements for dance instructors depend upon the type of dance you are teaching and the environment where you give your classes. Dance experience is always helpful, of course, but having adance degreemay not be necessary. If you decide to be a ballroom instructor, for example, a degree...
The dancers looked lovely and appeared well-trained, it’s what they were doing that bored me. For example, there’s a lot of rolling on the floor, arms held close the body, like so many logs, as well as running in place, legs kicking up to one’s rear. Overall, the movement is ...
So, take your art overseas and study inor the, for example, to get noticed. It’s true you must have a passion for dance if you want to obtain a dance degree. However, it’s not enough to just like performing and dancing. The best dance schools will challenge the very concept of ...
Vermillion is about 20 minutes from Oberlin, Ohio, which is where the Oberlin Conservatory is located. I had this incredible piano teacher there, her name is Marion Drummond. She was an old school music teacher, and so disciplined – I was scared of her for about seven years during my chi...
When a band did get to cut loose, for example Roger Wolfe Kahn’s orchestra performing “Shine On Your Shoes,” Binyon could throw down a hot solo on tenor sax:or use his brawny sound to heat up even straight melodies like “Sweet And Hot” with Nichols:...
and on film. As a teacher, he has motivated and mentored dance students for over decades. As a writer, he is creating literature that will hold true as the genre evolves. Yet, he continues to challenge himself, shifting seamlessly between these roles and creating new forms and new understan...
I got to attend New Mexico’s 4-day music and dance weekend over Memorial Day, as a dancer instead of a caller and that was fun. Also camped with Mark a few days at the end of the month. There was cell phone contact with my aunt even up in the mountains! Our Pilates teacher Gail...
I said, “For twenty+ years, I set a bad example on the dance floor with my disdain for English country dance. And one day about five years ago, I ‘got’ it. I LOVE English country dance now and I’m trying to make up for all the harm I did before.”“Well,” she said, ...
”a masterful example of how art can be used in support of social justice… personal, heartrending, and enthralling” Jen Norris Dance Reviews “Their bodies become pathways for retelling: spiraling, sensing, pressing, balancing, tracing, holding, falling, reaching, rearranging….We need to feel...
For example, a jetee assemble would certainly serve to mark the end of a figure. Even though for the sake of accessibility I do not teach much footwork I am thinking of introducing that step at my next 'drum'. I hope to have the pleasure of communicating with you in future. Very ...