Master Class Video Series
Jazz
Advanced Jazz with Ray Leeper
Join Ray for an inspiring jazz combination for your advanced students focusing on style, flair and technique.
Join Ray for an inspiring jazz combination for your advanced students focusing on style, flair and technique.
This session will present ideas on how to actually prevent your students (and yourself) from falling into technical traps that make everything more difficult and cumbersome! This class will help to discover the root of most major problems in tap dance execution. From “Lock Legged Syndrome”, to “Standitis” find the cures you and your students have been desperate for and unlock your feet for tap dance glory!
It is difficult to attract all types of students into Ballet classes, typically we are told that the movement is too slow or that they just want to do Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary or any other type of dance styles. In this class I will give you some ideas of different, fun, variations and costuming that will help your students fall in love with Ballet or at the very least appreciate how important the technique is for every style of Dance.
This is a fiery, uptempo, Latin tap which emphasizes the syncopation of Latin music that are apparent in the use of snaps, claps, and short verbalization. This style lends itself to audience appeal with its ear pleasing musicality, eye catching flare, and naturally infused attitude that give Latin that spicy kick.
Learn progressions for exciting tricks including rolling tinsicas, heli’s, raiz, kips and more! Class includes: the 3 foundations of Acro, why they are so important and how they contribute to the success of all skills; progressions and spotting for the trending skills for 2023; breakdown for rolling tinsicas and Kips for low intermediate students; breakdowns and demonstrations of advanced skills; demonstrations of all skills with Mandy’s assistants; time to ask questions about skills your dancers are struggling with.
Class will explore beginner-advanced improvisation and how to make it accessible to a wide variety of students and levels. Fundamental concepts will include: What is an improvisational score? What is “free dance?” “How do I teach improvisation?” “How do I make improvisation fun, accessible and relevant for all students?” “How can I use improvisation in my own creative process?” Improvisational directives, Improvisational inspirations, Improvisational progressions
In this session Hedy shares immediately impactful information and a structured plan for turning year-round camps into significant additional revenue for your studio. When to hold them, who to target, how to run them and much more will be covered.
Denise Wall presents a center floor exercise first to help the teachers to get their dancers to work through their feet. Also will explore how to get your dancers to use all 4 dimensions of their legs in their plie’ so they will move out from themselves.
This movement based session pinpoints how to use the body’s anatomy in order to increase a dancer’s technical ability while at the same time reducing injuries. We tackle the concepts of exhaustion and overuse injuries, while also breaking down how to take something as complex as the anatomy and simplify it in order to connect to any age group and technique level.
The next installment in our series for dance studio owners on topics that are important to YOU! Each month DTW founders and Veteran Studio Owners Steve Sirico and Angela D'Valda Sirico will tackle a new hot topic with tips and powerful suggestions on solutions that have worked for them. Enjoy!
American Ballet Theatre Principal James Whiteside presents terrific ways to keep ballet students engaged and interested while improving their technique and artistry.
Aaron Turner presents a fun and challenging Shuffle Variation for your tap students from beginner to advanced.
This Hip Hop Master Class will focus on foundational elements specifically, isolations and rhythm training. This will help your students have a better understanding of grooves and isolations and allow them to apply them to routines, performances & freestyles!
Julie Kay presents great ideas on how to make sure your teachers, recreational dancers and competitive dancers are on the same page. Loopholes will hurt your business, so let me know show you 5 tricks and they are GAME CHANGERS!
Join Dance Teacher Founders Steve Sirico and Angela D'Valda Sirico with special guest as they present inspirational tips to help you make this your best year ever!
Check out this fun and stylized Theatre Dance combo for beginner students