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LET'S GET IT STARTED! 2016 DANCE TEACHER WEB LIVE CONFERENCE & EXPO BEGINS!

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The time is finally here everyone! We are so thrilled to kick off the 2015 Dance Teacher Web LIVE Conference & Expo here at Foxwoods Resort & Casino! This year, we're bringing it to you from the East Coast and the energy is already buzzing with excitement! From attendees to faculty to Expo presenters and staff, everyone is amped up for the next few days which are filled with over 90 classes to choose from! The All-Star Faculty Lineup includes the likes of Alex Wong, Liz Imperio, Simone DePaolo, Judy Ann Bassing, Jessica Smith-Epting, Aaron Turner, Wayne Sleep, our Directors Angela and Steve Sirico and many other greats in the business!

The common factor here is that everyone is thrilled to share knowledge and learn from one anther; teachers and students alike. This is the time to refuel, re-energize, get inspired and fill up our arsenal of ideas for the upcoming season. This is YOUR conference, so be sure to take advantage of the amazing business seminars we have lined up for you too with those including Robert Landau, Jack Rayner and Clint Salter and discover new ideas on music editing, dancing in the digital age, costuming your dancers, building your business and extreme customer service ideas!

And for those attending DTU, you have a versatile and eclectic schedule waiting for you which includes everything from Modern and Anatomy to Early Childhood to Lyrical! We look forward to dancing and learning together over the next few days, so let's kick off the conference with a bang and get ready to move! Be sure to check back on the blog for daily updates & recaps!

Enjoy everyone....and Welcome!!!!

See you this week in the studio!

Jessie

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Author

Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford is a native New Yorker and graduate of NYU Steinhardt's Dance Education Master’s Program; with a PK-12 New York State Teaching Certification. Her double-concentration Master’s Degree includes PK-12 pedagogy and dance education within the higher-education discipline. She also holds a BFA in dance performance from the UMASS Amherst 5 College Dance Program where she was a Chancellor's Talent Award recipient. Jess now works extensively with children, adolescents and professionals as choreographer and teacher and conducts national and international master-classes specializing in the genres of modern, contemporary, musical theatre and choreography-composition. Jess’ national and international performance career includes works such as: The National Tour of Guys & Dolls, The European Tour of Grease, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, Salute to Dudley Moore at Carnegie Hall, guest-dancer with the World Famous Pontani Sisters and IMPULSE Modern Dance Company. Jess has been a faculty member for the Perichild Program & Peridance Youth Ensemble & taught contemporary and jazz at the historic New Dance Group and 92nd Street Y in NYC. She was Company Director at the historic Steffi Nossen School of Dance/Dance in Education Fund and in 2008 traveled to Uganda where she taught creative-movement to misplaced children. The experience culminated with Jess being selected as a featured instructor at the Queen's Kampala Ballet & Modern Dance School. She has conducted workshops for the cast of LA REVE at the Wynn, Las Vegas and recently taught at the 2011 IDS International Dance Teacher Conference at The Royal Ballet in London, UK. She is also on faculty for the annual Dance Teacher Web Conferences in Las Vegas, NV. Currently, Jess is a faculty member at the D'Valda & Sirico Dance & Music Centre and master teacher & adjudicator for various national and international dance competitions. Recently, she has finished her NYU Master’s thesis research on the choreographic process of technically advanced adolescent dancers and is the creator of “PROJECT C;” a choreography-composition curriculum for the private studio sector. Jess is also faculty member, contributing writer and presenter in the choreography and “how to” teaching segments on the celebrated danceteacherweb.com. For more info, visit her website at www.jrizzo.net.

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