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Event-Planning Toolbox
Three owner-tested ideas, with marketing and budget tips
With new studios popping up on every corner, studio owners can’t expect to build a successful business simply by teaching classes and putting on a yearly recital. To … Continue reading
Twin City Titans
Tu Dance Center fills an unmet need in Minneapolis–St. Paul.
They come bounding in, sometimes with moms or siblings in their wake, shoving dance bags and ballet slippers into cubbies along one wall of the former … Continue reading
Summer Cross-Training
Encouraging students to stay active during vacation will help them smoothly return to dance in the fall.
The leggy and lean Alicia Graf Mack needs to keep herself in top form when Alvin Ailey American Dance … Continue reading
Technique: Courtney Runft
How I teach pre-tap
Forty-five minutes of 3 1/2-year-olds in tap shoes may sound like a recipe for a throbbing headache, but Courtney Runft manages to keep the noise under control. That’s because for the first … Continue reading
Building Body and Brain
Tips for teaching dance to 3- to 6-year-olds
Creative dance means creative teaching, too. Though leading a class of 3-year-olds may sound like fun and games to the uninitiated, there’s a serious side to early childhood … Continue reading
Francia Russell
Teaching Balanchine to a new generation
Like many who stage the work of George Balanchine, Francia Russell danced for him while at New York City Ballet (1956–1961). Unlike her fellow répétiteurs, she began teaching the work … Continue reading
