2012 Lifetime Achievement Award: Denise Wall

Denise Wall brings a unique voice to dance training.

“What’s in the water in Virginia Beach?” In October 2008, the Dance Teacher cover story opened with this quote from Nigel Lythgoe, a question he posed after … Continue reading →

Lifetime Achievement Award: Jacques d’Amboise

From scrappy youth to Balanchine prodigy to founder of the National Dance Institute

In the dance world, Jacques d’Amboise is a living legend. He was a tough street kid who rose to the rank of New … Continue reading →

Lifetime Achievement Award: Always a Dancer

Back before that velvet-lined, aristocratic name, Jacques d’Amboise—born Joseph Jacques Ahearn—was a rough-and-tumble Irish-American kid growing up in Washington Heights. But his mother, a pint-sized French-Canadian force of nature, had loftier visions. She changed the … Continue reading →

Lifetime Achievement Award: Q & A with Jacques d’Amboise

Jacques d’Amboise talks with Dance Teacher contributing editor Kate Lydon about teaching dance in public schools, his boundless energy and what Mr. B thought about NDI.
Why do you think it’s important for everyone to have … Continue reading →

Technique: Lifetime Achievement Honoree Bill Evans

How I teach modern dance
On a Wednesday morning in Brockport, NY, Bill Evans watches half of his advanced modern dance class perform a set movement phrase while the other half observes. As the students’ dance … Continue reading →

Larry The Great

Lawrence Rhodes will tell you that he doesn’t really have a vision. In conversation, he will reduce his seven years as director of the dance division at The Juilliard School to a single sentence—“A program … Continue reading →