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DANCE TEACHER WEB FOR TAP DANCE TEACHERS

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For dance teachers who teach Tap Dance we offer a wide variety of videos and articles designed to keep you on the cutting edge. Videos are of all levels and feature Classic, Hoofing and Musical Theater styles of Tap Dance. These videos vary in length from 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. If you are looking for a teaching edge that can help you increase your earning power and increase your overall knowledge then a Dance Teacher Web membership is for you!

The “How To” section offers ideas on different ways to teach tap technique, tips on teaching tap turns, cleaning sounds and ideas on how to warm-up your students. These videos offer 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 of the latest techniques and teaching ideas.
The article section offers ideas on class room management, gives you ways to create a simple class syllabus and helps you with your class planning among other subjects. Reading these articles will help to keep you current and increase your value as a teacher! The key to being at your best it to continue learning and all of the articles are written exclusively for our members.
New content is added every month and members have access to the full library of all videos and articles making Dance Teacher Web the number one resource for Tap Dance teachers. Plus you have the added benefit of joining our large community of dance educators worldwide.

Let us help keep you fresh with ideas and content for your classes and choreography all year long. The perfect cure for creative block!

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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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