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“BLOG TALK” SEMINAR AT DANCE TEACHER WEB CONFERENCE & EXPO

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You have read countless blog entries here on the DTW Blog and now you have the chance to join me, LIVE, at the 2018 Dance Teacher Web Conference and Expo to discuss some of the most pressing, “hot topics” from the blog as well as topic suggestions from attendees. This important talk session will be providing an open forum peer discussion on the relevant issues we face today as dance teachers and studio owners.

Nothing is too unimportant to discuss. We hope to provide the opportunity where we can all come together as a dance community and come up with ideas, strategies, methods and advice to support each other on the relevant situations, challenges and areas we want to take our businesses, students and ourselves.

We can only grow from learning from one another and while we, as devoted dance teachers and studio owners are solely focused on our students throughout the year, we barely take the time to pause and think about ourselves and how we can work through issues and how to re-inspire and reignite ourselves. Hearing stories and questions posed by peers remind us we are not alone in the dance community as different as our studio models may be. There are always unifying, universal topics, frustrations, successes and road blocks that we similarly face.

I look forward to moderating this discussion and always love to provide objective advice and ideas based on my own experiences. Sometimes a fresh ear and objective new voice is all it takes! So, get ready, bring your questions and let’s have an inclusive discussion where we feel heard, understood, empowered and inspired!

"Blog Talk" Panel Discussion will be held Thursday, August 2nd @ 8:40 a.m. at the Dance Teacher Web  Conference & Expo at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas!

https://www.danceteachersummerexpo.com/

Can’t wait to see you there!

Jess Rizzo-Stafford

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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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