"How-To" Teacher Training Videos
Turns & Leaps
Tips to Strengthen Your Students Turns with Nikky Paramo
Nikky will share some great tips to help your beginner students master the art of truning
Nikky will share some great tips to help your beginner students master the art of truning
Through discussion and acting exercises, Bonnie will go through 20 steps to help find a way to develop dance pieces and the character within those pieces. This class will help those choreographing and developing works put together pieces that will mean more to the artist performing and also to those who are watching them being performed.
In this session James will help you in creating short pieces of choreography and learn ways to get students interested in their own creative expression.
Class will focus on exercises that you can include in daily ballet classes to help strengthen and improve petite and grand allegro.
This class will demonstrate fun exercises to introduce the concept of turning, give examples of teaching a pirouette for the first time, and share tips and ideas on how to improve the technique of your students’ pirouettes.
Do you need to sharpen your sales skills? Did you know that service is the highest form of selling? Join Misty Lown, studio owner and leader of More Than Just Great Dancing!®, to learn seven sales truths and what they mean for your studio in the upcoming season.
This class will take you back to 101 with how to releve’ because if you want to be good at turns you need to practice balancing. Discover teaching tips on how to spot turns a little different than how we as teachers were trained and it helps your students with the science of turns and more!
The next installment in our series for dance studio owners on topics that are important to YOU! Each month DTW founders and Veteran Studio Owners Steve Sirico and Angela D'Valda Sirico will tackle a new hot topic with tips and powerful suggestions on solutions that have worked for them. Enjoy!
This class breaks down the basic elements of movement in tap (as well as touching on other genres) so you can connect the dots for dancers of all levels.
Ballroom dancing is the practice of communication, understanding body language and ultimately sharing in the magic of dance, together.
In this class you will discover about the importance of including ballet choreography in your competition repertoire, as well as give choreography ideas for Recreational, Intermediate and Advanced dancers.
Who doesn’t love the movie Grease! This class will feature all the hits from the movie with across the floor and center combinations. Get ready to Go Greased Lightning and Hand Jive to these beloved songs. These combos will feature a variety of levels to accommodate your most beginner dancers but also challenge your advanced dancers as well. The songs are absolutely contagious and a good time will be had by all. Grease is the word!
This master class features England's to hip hop choreographer presenting his unique and funky euro style!
Learn from an award-winning preschool dance teacher on how best to structure your preschool classes and use different props and dynamics to keep preschoolers engaged for a whole lesson. Learn teaching tips on how to help preschoolers develop important coordination milestones, build confidence and encourage freestyle and creative choices. You will use rhythm sticks to roll sushi, go camping with the parachute, chase rainbows with ribbons and so much more.
Nikky presents a fun and stylized jazz combination for your advanced dancer to the song "What's going on" by Wookie
Sophie presents a great variation. Focusing on the true authentic ballet choreography and storytelling of a classical ballet variation.