
Dance

Teaching Tip: Getting Students Comfortable with Improvisation
By Ali Duffy, PhD, associate professor of dance at Texas Tech University and founder and artistic director of Flatlands Dance Theatre Improvisation can be a great tool as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer. How do you prepare...

Review of in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies
By Bethany Bentley, Human Kinetics What are others thinking about the theory and practice described in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies? In a review published in the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science (Volume 24, Number 2,...

Teaching Tip: An Intro to Attentional Focus in Dance
By Clare Guss-West, Director of the Dance & Creative Wellness Foundation What is the power of attentional focus and what can it add to your dance teaching and performance? Here is a brief overview that...

Inspiring Dancers Who Broke Through Barriers
By Dawn Davis Loring, MFA, dance teacher, writer, and choreographer Matching dancers and students with dance professionals who share their birthday is an excellent way to foster connection with the history of dance. To...

Review of Understanding the Pelvis
By Bethany Bentley, Human Kinetics What are others thinking about Understanding the Pelvis, a book dedicated to improve yoga practice to lead to greater performance for athletes, dancers, and other artists? In a review published in the...

Teaching Tip: How to prepare to teach dance with...
By Ali Duffy, PhD, associate professor of dance at Texas Tech University and founder and artistic director of Flatlands Dance Theatre How do you prepare to teach dance if you have an injury as a dance...