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Dance Teacher Conference | Dance Conference & Expo 2022

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Well....What an incredible few days it was at our 2021 DTW Live Conference & Expo! It was so amazing to be back all together, doing what we love most. We are just so overjoyed and honored you spent this time with us. Just as much as we all love teaching, we also value learning and growing from you, our peers. We are all so inspired to use all this wonderful knowledge and gear up for the new season ahead. The energy was truly electric and infectious! Everyone from the faculty to the attendees to our wonderful staff and Expo vendors have been buzzing with enthusiasm, positivity and readiness after the year we’ve just endured and our hearts are full.  It's really been so exciting to share with everyone.... and this conference really does keep getting better year after year! We thank you so much. We couldn’t ask for a more perfect event.

Now that you’re back and have had some time to decompress and reflect, we ask you, what are you going to do with all this new-found knowledge and arsenal of ideas? 

How were you inspired most at the conference?

How do you feel you’ll inspire your students?

How will you analyze and assimilate content into your own lessons, for your own students? How will you make it your own?

What was your big takeaway?

How do you feel as a teacher?

A studio owner? A dancer? An artist? A human being? What were experiences that made the most impact for you or sparked an “ah-ha” moment? Are there things you’d love to see at next year’s conference? We’d love to hear from you!

We hope you all maintain this infectious, open energy and thirst for knowledge you came with and can’t wait to hear about the amazing things you do this season! We have no doubt, every single one of you will have an incredible successful and exciting year. Thank you for inspiring us and for joining us for another amazing conference! We’ll see you next year!

Good luck to everyone this 2021-2022 season and we cannot wait to see you in the summer of 2022!

See you in the dance studio,

Love,

Jess & The DTW Family

JOIN US IN 2022 IN LAS VEGAS AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD AUGUST 4 - 7

www.danceteachersummerexpo.com

Remember when you walked into your classes filled with energy and creativity? Get that feeling again by joining us at the Ultimate Dance Teacher Summer Conference.

Our All-Star faculty will be presenting exclusive curriculum plus we are planning plenty of fun special events that will help propel you into your most successful season ever!

Ø  140+ Master Classes – All Levels and Business Building Seminars

Ø  Discover New Marketing Trends and Unique Studio Retention Ideas

Ø  Teacher Certification Training Program with UNLV

Ø  Special Events, Parties and Exclusive Offers and Giveaways

Ø  Pre-Conference Biz seminar – Revenue Generating Ideas for Your Studio

Ø  3 Month Access to the Event App to Watch All Videos and Review Notes

Ø  Network with Dance Celebrities

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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