
Dance

Teaching Tip: Becoming More Aware of Our Thoughts
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...

Teaching Tip: External Attentional Foci
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,...

Teaching Tip: Preparing Students for After Graduation
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...

Teaching Tip: Working in a Systematic Way
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...

A Chat with Dawn Davis Loring, Author of Dance...
An interview with Dawn Davis Loring, MFA, dance teacher, writer, and choreographer Dawn Davis Loring’s interest in teaching dance and choreography started early when she taught her friends dance whenever they came over to play....