Dance technique

Use this quick-but-thorough dance warmup whenever you're short on time! More variations in the linked post! #dancewarmup #danceaudition

Throughout your dancing life, you've heard the same corrections over and over. The reason for the repetition? Dancers tend to make the same errors, sometimes with catastrophic results. Dance Magazine spoke to eight teachers about what they perceive to be the worst habits—the ones that will destroy a dancer's technique—and what can be done to reverse the damage.

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The world of dance has its own complete language that can sometimes make it challenging to learn new techniques. To help you become fluent, Covet Dance has put together a COMPLETE LIST OF DANCE TERMS to make your dance classes a bit easier to understand so you can focus on mastering the moves!

This dance blog post features 10 choreography prompts that help choreographers and dance students learn modern dance composition skills like space, level, tempo, rhythm, pathway, accumulation, retrograde, and more! Ignite your creativity and give your students some choreography inspiration with these prompts. They provide choreography ideas for creating original work, revising existing choreography, or exercises in dance composition classes. #choreographyideas #choreographyinspiration

About a year ago (maybe more – time flies!), someone in a dance teachers’ group on Facebook posed an interesting question: What are the 5 skills that you think are most important for your students to learn? This was a particularly vexing topic for me, because I had a hard time even deciding what counts ...

This free list 21 dance improv ideas and choreography prompts are designed to help students develop resiliency and persistence. Use these dance activities in classes with dancers of most age groups, skill levels, and dance styles. Give your students some new dance inspiration and help them navigate difficult times with these dance prompts! #danceteacherresources #danceimprovideas #danceactivities #danceimprovtip #choreographytip #choreographyinspiration

A Time To Dance

Growth Mindset and dance – a powerful tool for teachers. You may have heard the term growth mindset and we all understand praise – but what do they mean for our work with young dancers, what is the relationship between growth mindset and dance? As dance teachers we want to give our dancers the tools to be the best dancers they can be, to help them succeed. We work on their technique, we give them correction after correction, we spend hours finding that perfect piece of music or designing…