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Tough Not Rough: Show Your Dancers Compassion Without Compromising Teaching Standards

While the days of slapping students’ legs with a cane have become part of (recent) history in dance training, a “leave it at the door” mentality persists in many studio settings. But when a student enters the studio, they come as an entire person, with all the shades of complexity that entails—especially in their years […]