Dance

By Dawn Davis Loring, MFA, DANCE TEACHER, WRITER, AND CHOREOGRAPHER   In May we celebrate the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to our shared dance heritage. Here are a few inspiring dancers who spent...

Interview with Erica Hornthal, LCPC, BC-DMT, on Building America Now Podcast   Erica Hornthal, Human Kinetics author, was a guest on Building America Now with David Bolanos where she discussed her career as a dance & movement...

By Clare Guss-West, Director of the Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation  Shifting attention in dance is for most of us like learning a new language: It becomes familiar with practice. Even just becoming aware of...

By Clare Guss-West, Director of the Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation  In my direct experience of teaching dancers, I have learned that we frequently use multiple types of feedback from diverse sources involving both self-related,...

By Ali Duffy, PhD, associate professor of dance at Texas Tech University and founder and artistic director of Flatlands Dance Theatre The first year after graduation can be overwhelming as dance students transition from college to the...

By Clare Guss-West, Director of the Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation    There is, in general, a lack of a systematic attention and focus strategy or of consistent mental training for dancers, in comparison to the heavy...