What do you love to be a teacher? Do you like to create murderous combos or see your students shine on stage? Do you like to feel a sense of community with your fellow teachers? Do you like to convey your knowledge of dance and see the progress of your dancers?
Whatever you love your work, it is crucial to realize that it is important. The dancers will take their lessons (dance lessons and life values, whether you realize or not, with them throughout their lives, even if they do not keep the dance forever. Being a dance teacher is an incredibly important job. Children come to dance to joy, to unleash their creativity and internal art, express yourself, to be part of a group. And you, as a teacher, have the incredible role of being your mentor. Young dancers, whether professionals or not, are our future.
Knowing what great responsibility can be discouraging, but it can also be incredibly gratifying, especially if it is being proactive on their role and their effect on the elevation of these future dancers and members of society. In Dance Teacher Summit (DTS), returning to New York this August 8 to 11, you can find classes, presentations, resources, curricular information and an incredible network of industry professionals that can help you Be the best educator you can be, so you can help raise the next generation of dancers and people who come in this world.
“Our study directors and our educators are so instrumental in how our future dancers are raising,” says the director and choreographer Liz Empire, who will be in the Faculty in this year's DTS. “And it is not just the technical side, that is an obvious aspect of it, but it is also the education of what a future professional means? If the child decides to be a dancer or medical or lawyer, the dance has much more to offer. And when the teachers and the study directors take advantage of how they really can help the channels and the children of the children, they really become the future of the children, it really is dedicated to the future educators, they really dedicate themselves to They really dedicate themselves to future educators, they really dedicate themselves to futures, are dedicated to futures.
Being educator these days is not just about repeating the past; It has to be more than simply transmitting what was given in the same exact way. We know much more about mental health, the importance of the well -being of a dancer and the balance between working life and life, the value of rest to avoid exhaustion and more. So, being an educator in 2025 requires more thinking and research, and more tools than only “steps.”
Stacey Tookey, choreographer, educator and member of the Faculty of DTS for a long time, says that in this year's event, she will offer something different and exciting. Recently she has been certified as a full care meditation teacher, as a way of training her mind as the dance has done for her body. “I think I became very interested in pandemic when anxiety began to shoot for me and for the dancers, for my daughter, for all who was close,” explains Touokey. “They are like, 'How do we handle this new level of stress and anxiety in our life?' Statistics say a lot about how much society is dealing with a greater weight of expectation weight, technology and fast rhythm, and has led to many health problems. “
In DTS, Tookey will do full attention for dance and dance educators, linking the exercises and the application of real life so that teachers return to study and integrate for all ages.
Tookey says: “You can do it for your six -year -old baby class to your professionals, and also for you, as, when you are about to go to teach for a long day, maybe you have already had one day with your own family and children, and you are like, 'that's fine, I have 15 minutes to assemble it.
Denise Wall, artistic director of the Donise Energy Faculty of Denise Wall and DTS, points out that, for many young dancers, her dance study is her home, her safe refuge after stress at school or even family life. “We have to stay in tune with everything they are doing and also, not only with the body, but their psyche,” says Wall. “I know that this is how I overcome my life. I came to the studio and I had drama suitcases. I left them at the door. I entered the door and left them there. And I tell you what, when I came back after teaching and that was all I was thinking, the children and what I was delivering and the class, those costumes were plug -in. And that is what I realized of those children. If you had a day.
Empire adds: “I mean, when I really think about it, the teachers are destined to teach children to do something from nothing every day. Someday you had nothing, the next day you have a pass. You not only have a pass, the next day you have a piroueta. Constantly you are not doing something inside a body that did not know that I could not do what it can do. And so, and so, to mentor these directors and educators in a train of a train. You don't know what you can't do what you can do.
And even if you feel that you are not there yet, that you are not the best teacher you could be, or you are a newer educator without much experience, it is not a reason to be intimidated by DTS. “That is something that I love from the dance of dance teachers,” says Wall. “It is as if they obtained teachers who are already incredible teachers, but you will have these teachers so that some people can look at them and say: 'Oh, they should not be teaching.' And you know what? As long as they come to get a good education and to improve, then they should be teaching, because they will get there.”
Dance Teacher Summit will be held from August 8 to 11, in New York City. For more information and to register, visit www.danceteachersummit.com.
By Laura Di Orio de Dance reports.
Author: Saxon
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