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Dance Teacher Web for Jazz Dance Teachers

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For dance teachers who teach Jazz Dance, Dance Teacher Web offers a wide variety of videos and articles designed to keep you on the cutting edge. Videos are of all levels and feature funk, classic and lyrical styles of jazz dance. The videos vary in length with combinations of 4x8’s to 12x8’s and are for your beginner through advanced students. Each combination is performed and then broken down with counts using both front and back views. The benefit of having this information at your fingertips is that you will be able to access the videos when you need them most. Looking for class content or have a bit of a creative block? Members just log in and have hundreds of videos in every style and level, all at the click of a mouse!

The” How To” section offers ideas on different jazz turn combinations, tips on teaching a variety of jazz styles and ideas on how to give excellent warm-ups and strengthening exercises. The videos are a terrific teaching tool that will help you to discover new and time-tested teaching methods presented by our team of Master Teachers. Plus, you will learn all the latest techniques and teaching ideas that will help to get your students to the next level.

The article section offers ideas on class room management and provides you with ideas on how to create a simple class syllabus and class planner. They address all of the situations that you will encounter as a dance teacher and they will not only keep you current and increase your value as a teacher but they will also help you to stay energized and motivated. The key to being at your best it to continue learning and the articles and videos on Dance Teacher Web are produced exclusively for our members

Did You Know?  That Dance Teacher Web  the LARGEST online resource for dance teachers and studio owners with 1000+ videos, 100's of articles and lesson plans to help you stay current and creative all year long. For the busy Dance Studio Owner, we offer fantastic articles on topics like Marketing, How To get more students and Increase revenue, Business building seminars, Downloadable manuals, Sample ads and Forms to help you take your business to the next level.

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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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