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Sessions By Shay Kuebler:
Foundational Skills and Technique in Contemporary
Explore the foundational techniques that help create an understanding of floor work and differentiating the form from jazz and lyrical. Learn new ways to explore and present contemporary to your students.
Improvisation and its Importance for Dancers
Learn about some improvisation tools for hip hop, tap and contemporary, and how those translate to creating choreography and accessing stronger performances from students. Instigating improvisation skills can increase the capacity for students/teachers to discover unique choreography as well as enable the students to have the ability to use improvisation in performance. This is also an essential tool for auditioning and discovering your own artist.
Foundational Skills and Technique in Tap
Come learn a baseline from which to work from so that your students have structure to work from. Going back to the roots of tap technique and working on technique in a fun manner.
Physical Fitness, Conditioning, Technique Classes and Nutrition: What Dancers
Should Know
Learn how to create proper technique/conditioning classes for each form of dance. Explore nutrition and getting your students to understand the importance of it.
Sessions By Abbey Dutton:
Developing Voice and Acting technique for Musical Theatre
Often dancers have heart and great dance skills, but they struggle to embody characters or to truly use their voices effectively. This session is great for those instructors that are not vocal or acting instructors, but still want to help give their students some acting and singing technique.
Tips and Drills For improving Jumps and Turns
Through some conversation and movement, we will discuss tips, tricks and drills to help your dancers jump higher and turn more effectively. This session emphasizes the importance of all the small skills that make for more consistent and effective technique. Especially helpful for improving beginner or intermediate dancers!
Structuring a Jazz technique Class For Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced
Dancers
Thoughts and tips on preparing an appropriate tech class for dancers regardless of their individual ages and skill levels. Come prepared to try some of the exercises and to chat!
Physical Fitness, Conditioning, Technique Classes and Nutrition: What Dancers
Should Know
Drawing on their years of professional and educational experience Shay and Abbey offer nutrition and training advice for dancers as they both age and progress in skill level.
Sessions By Irene Widdup:
Foundational Beginnings for Pre-Schoolers- 18months -5yrs
This session will focus on understanding stages of development of children 18 months to 5years and focusing on what technical steps can be taught to students at different ages and what performance level can be expected at each stage. We will also discuss developing “building
block” exercises that can be done each year of training adding a level of challenge at each stage.
Using Themes and Props to Teach Technique- Pre-School – Pre –Junior – 18Months -5
Years
Themes and props add an addtional level of excitement to dance classes. Make learning fun! Working together we will develop themes and discover how teaching with props can make your class fun, educational and focused.
Teaching with Love ...Earning Respect!-Class Room Management Techniques
What do you do with a crier or a child running around out of control or a child who is shy and doesn’t want to move?
Learn tips and tricks to having a well - managed class that is focused, learning and most
importantly having fun! Discover how you can teach with love and kindness and earn respect! Learn how to get everyone involved at their pace!
Session By Rhonda Gillrie
Co presented with Stephanie Nixon
Pre-School Acrobatics
Come explore some fun tips and tricks to teaching acrobatics to pre-schoolers in a safe and secure manner. Based on the average child’s development how are we bet able to give added value to parents and build student skills. This session focuses on your youngest acro student, dancer or Birthday Party participant. We utilize common everyday items to help the child develop and grow, learn and discover, in a fun and caring manner. Our program allows your tiny Acro student to build in confidence and ability, strength in muscles and self. They are then ready to enter your current acro program, with a head start! A great way to get little ones into your studio! We will also be providing ideas on how to utilize the SWAG TAGS program to inspire and motivate students young and old.
Session by Dance Educators International
Dance Educators International – The Art - Lesson Planning 101 - (Emerging Teachers
Only)
Dance educators covers aspects of preparation before your classes begin, and continuous planning ideas for you to utilize during the entire dance year. Creating a safe space, the importance of warm up & conditioning & cool down, lesson planning built off a current syllabus, or even creating your own syllabus! We ensure you feel more confident walking into your dance classes every year.
Dance Educators International – The Science – Shakin’ Bad Habits – Retraining your students
Teaching dance, and dancing itself, is a science as much as it is an art form. Teaching proper aspects such as alignment & posture and proper technique will help you effectively train your students for long term success. In this session, we will help you see your dancers in a new light.
DEI will help you find the bad habits, and find solutions to help fix and refrain into healthy habits.
Dance Educators International – The Business - Business of being a Dance Teacher
101 - (Emerging Teachers Only)
As a dance teacher you are a business owner. Generally you are responsible for your money management for tax purposes, cash flow to have your money last throughout the entire year, invoicing and more. With this workshop DEI will talk about strategies to help you manage your business more effectively, and can possibly even help guide you to land your dream job with the studio that best fits your needs!
Dance Educators International – 5 Ways to Freshen up your studio! (Studio Owners Only) This seminar is for studio owners, managers and administrations that are ready for an update! We are going to give you five amazing ways to Freshen up your studio with a new vibe and perspective!
1. Stay Current: Evolve, Adapt & Change with the Industry
2. Listen: Mentors, Outside Eyes & Client Surveys
3. Learn: Ongoing Education for You, Your Teachers & Students
4. Automate: Developing Systems, Plans & Processes
5. Innovate: Creating Solutions & Continuing to Grow
Sessions By Robin Szuch:
Aerial Dance - Trapeze 101
This interactive workshop is designed so that dance teachers can experience hands on coaching
of Aerial Dance on the trapeze. Not only will we cover the basics of spotting but we will delve into some of the technical elements of the Spectacle Blue Aerial Dance syllabus. Teachers will leave this workshop with a clear picture and a bite sized experience of what incorporating the SBAD syllabus in their studio can look like.
Aerial Dance - Hoop 101
In this interactive workshop dance teachers will get hands on experience in teaching elements of the Spectacle Blue Aerial Dance syllabus on the hoop. As an art form aerial dance is not just about singe technical elements. Teachers will get the opportunity to take the technical elements they learn and “add the dance” to create a small choreographic piece of artistry.
Session By Marie Casey:
Using Yoga to Build Flexible and Strong Dancers
Come and learn how implementing yoga in your studio or within the dance class can help develop strong and flexible dancers. Focusing on some hip opening exercises, as well learning to move with ease and not in pain. This session is also for dance teachers to rejuvenate and relax before they head home from our great weekend!
Session By Michelle Greenwell and Natascha
Polomski
Frequency: Choosing Your Music to Build Coherence in the Body and in the
Performance."
Explore the background behind frequency and resonance and how music works coherently in the body, or not, depending on the frequency that the music has been tuned for. Samples of
different music frequencies will be explored. And, experience how you can shift your music to achieve relaxation and harmony in the body for a better performance and a stronger skill building opportunity in the studio.
Color Choices: Building Energy in your Surroundings, Your Costumes and Your
Performance
Have you ever been drawn to a certain color for a special event? Have you chosen a costume based on the color it comes in? Learn how color energizes the body and how your choices of color do matter. With hands on examples, everyone will have the opportunity find out what energizes them and how they can change their strength and flexibility with color.
Intention is your Key to Success
Explore the depths of how intention in thoughts, emotions and movement can enhance your performance, your teaching, and your experience. Learn about the frequency of emotions, the energy of words and the vision that creates success. Be ready to dive into some hands on exercises to begin shifting the way you approach action and activity.
Sound Essence Bath
Begin the day with a shower of love that will invigorate and inspire you from the outside in. With an orchestra of Singing Bowls, Koshi Chimes and Hapi Drums played by Natascha Polomski, Michelle Greenwell will create a group specific meditation that is enhanced by the Misting of Sound Essence sprays over the body to shift towards your ultimate goals. Bring a pillow, blanket and mat for this event, and be ready to be transported into your day with joy and vitality.
Private Sessions:
Do you have an ache or pain in the body that you would like released? Is there an old injury that has continued to plague you and your performance or teaching opportunities? Do you want to know more about how to help yourself into health, energy and vitality? Consider a private
session and let us help you gain the success you are looking for.
Contact us now to book your special time during the conference:
Singing Bowl Massage and Energy Lifter: 20 minutes for $30 (10 minute Singing Bowl massage with Natascha Polomski and 10 minutes releasing old patterns with Michelle Greenwell)
Energy Medicine session with: Michelle Greenwell $75 for 45 minutes
Singing Bowl Massage with: Natascha Polomski $50 for 30 minutes
Foundational Skills and Technique in Contemporary
Explore the foundational techniques that help create an understanding of floor work and differentiating the form from jazz and lyrical. Learn new ways to explore and present contemporary to your students.
Improvisation and its Importance for Dancers
Learn about some improvisation tools for hip hop, tap and contemporary, and how those translate to creating choreography and accessing stronger performances from students. Instigating improvisation skills can increase the capacity for students/teachers to discover unique choreography as well as enable the students to have the ability to use improvisation in performance. This is also an essential tool for auditioning and discovering your own artist.
Foundational Skills and Technique in Tap
Come learn a baseline from which to work from so that your students have structure to work from. Going back to the roots of tap technique and working on technique in a fun manner.
Physical Fitness, Conditioning, Technique Classes and Nutrition: What Dancers
Should Know
Learn how to create proper technique/conditioning classes for each form of dance. Explore nutrition and getting your students to understand the importance of it.
Sessions By Abbey Dutton:
Developing Voice and Acting technique for Musical Theatre
Often dancers have heart and great dance skills, but they struggle to embody characters or to truly use their voices effectively. This session is great for those instructors that are not vocal or acting instructors, but still want to help give their students some acting and singing technique.
Tips and Drills For improving Jumps and Turns
Through some conversation and movement, we will discuss tips, tricks and drills to help your dancers jump higher and turn more effectively. This session emphasizes the importance of all the small skills that make for more consistent and effective technique. Especially helpful for improving beginner or intermediate dancers!
Structuring a Jazz technique Class For Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced
Dancers
Thoughts and tips on preparing an appropriate tech class for dancers regardless of their individual ages and skill levels. Come prepared to try some of the exercises and to chat!
Physical Fitness, Conditioning, Technique Classes and Nutrition: What Dancers
Should Know
Drawing on their years of professional and educational experience Shay and Abbey offer nutrition and training advice for dancers as they both age and progress in skill level.
Sessions By Irene Widdup:
Foundational Beginnings for Pre-Schoolers- 18months -5yrs
This session will focus on understanding stages of development of children 18 months to 5years and focusing on what technical steps can be taught to students at different ages and what performance level can be expected at each stage. We will also discuss developing “building
block” exercises that can be done each year of training adding a level of challenge at each stage.
Using Themes and Props to Teach Technique- Pre-School – Pre –Junior – 18Months -5
Years
Themes and props add an addtional level of excitement to dance classes. Make learning fun! Working together we will develop themes and discover how teaching with props can make your class fun, educational and focused.
Teaching with Love ...Earning Respect!-Class Room Management Techniques
What do you do with a crier or a child running around out of control or a child who is shy and doesn’t want to move?
Learn tips and tricks to having a well - managed class that is focused, learning and most
importantly having fun! Discover how you can teach with love and kindness and earn respect! Learn how to get everyone involved at their pace!
Session By Rhonda Gillrie
Co presented with Stephanie Nixon
Pre-School Acrobatics
Come explore some fun tips and tricks to teaching acrobatics to pre-schoolers in a safe and secure manner. Based on the average child’s development how are we bet able to give added value to parents and build student skills. This session focuses on your youngest acro student, dancer or Birthday Party participant. We utilize common everyday items to help the child develop and grow, learn and discover, in a fun and caring manner. Our program allows your tiny Acro student to build in confidence and ability, strength in muscles and self. They are then ready to enter your current acro program, with a head start! A great way to get little ones into your studio! We will also be providing ideas on how to utilize the SWAG TAGS program to inspire and motivate students young and old.
Session by Dance Educators International
Dance Educators International – The Art - Lesson Planning 101 - (Emerging Teachers
Only)
Dance educators covers aspects of preparation before your classes begin, and continuous planning ideas for you to utilize during the entire dance year. Creating a safe space, the importance of warm up & conditioning & cool down, lesson planning built off a current syllabus, or even creating your own syllabus! We ensure you feel more confident walking into your dance classes every year.
Dance Educators International – The Science – Shakin’ Bad Habits – Retraining your students
Teaching dance, and dancing itself, is a science as much as it is an art form. Teaching proper aspects such as alignment & posture and proper technique will help you effectively train your students for long term success. In this session, we will help you see your dancers in a new light.
DEI will help you find the bad habits, and find solutions to help fix and refrain into healthy habits.
Dance Educators International – The Business - Business of being a Dance Teacher
101 - (Emerging Teachers Only)
As a dance teacher you are a business owner. Generally you are responsible for your money management for tax purposes, cash flow to have your money last throughout the entire year, invoicing and more. With this workshop DEI will talk about strategies to help you manage your business more effectively, and can possibly even help guide you to land your dream job with the studio that best fits your needs!
Dance Educators International – 5 Ways to Freshen up your studio! (Studio Owners Only) This seminar is for studio owners, managers and administrations that are ready for an update! We are going to give you five amazing ways to Freshen up your studio with a new vibe and perspective!
1. Stay Current: Evolve, Adapt & Change with the Industry
2. Listen: Mentors, Outside Eyes & Client Surveys
3. Learn: Ongoing Education for You, Your Teachers & Students
4. Automate: Developing Systems, Plans & Processes
5. Innovate: Creating Solutions & Continuing to Grow
Sessions By Robin Szuch:
Aerial Dance - Trapeze 101
This interactive workshop is designed so that dance teachers can experience hands on coaching
of Aerial Dance on the trapeze. Not only will we cover the basics of spotting but we will delve into some of the technical elements of the Spectacle Blue Aerial Dance syllabus. Teachers will leave this workshop with a clear picture and a bite sized experience of what incorporating the SBAD syllabus in their studio can look like.
Aerial Dance - Hoop 101
In this interactive workshop dance teachers will get hands on experience in teaching elements of the Spectacle Blue Aerial Dance syllabus on the hoop. As an art form aerial dance is not just about singe technical elements. Teachers will get the opportunity to take the technical elements they learn and “add the dance” to create a small choreographic piece of artistry.
Session By Marie Casey:
Using Yoga to Build Flexible and Strong Dancers
Come and learn how implementing yoga in your studio or within the dance class can help develop strong and flexible dancers. Focusing on some hip opening exercises, as well learning to move with ease and not in pain. This session is also for dance teachers to rejuvenate and relax before they head home from our great weekend!
Session By Michelle Greenwell and Natascha
Polomski
Frequency: Choosing Your Music to Build Coherence in the Body and in the
Performance."
Explore the background behind frequency and resonance and how music works coherently in the body, or not, depending on the frequency that the music has been tuned for. Samples of
different music frequencies will be explored. And, experience how you can shift your music to achieve relaxation and harmony in the body for a better performance and a stronger skill building opportunity in the studio.
Color Choices: Building Energy in your Surroundings, Your Costumes and Your
Performance
Have you ever been drawn to a certain color for a special event? Have you chosen a costume based on the color it comes in? Learn how color energizes the body and how your choices of color do matter. With hands on examples, everyone will have the opportunity find out what energizes them and how they can change their strength and flexibility with color.
Intention is your Key to Success
Explore the depths of how intention in thoughts, emotions and movement can enhance your performance, your teaching, and your experience. Learn about the frequency of emotions, the energy of words and the vision that creates success. Be ready to dive into some hands on exercises to begin shifting the way you approach action and activity.
Sound Essence Bath
Begin the day with a shower of love that will invigorate and inspire you from the outside in. With an orchestra of Singing Bowls, Koshi Chimes and Hapi Drums played by Natascha Polomski, Michelle Greenwell will create a group specific meditation that is enhanced by the Misting of Sound Essence sprays over the body to shift towards your ultimate goals. Bring a pillow, blanket and mat for this event, and be ready to be transported into your day with joy and vitality.
Private Sessions:
Do you have an ache or pain in the body that you would like released? Is there an old injury that has continued to plague you and your performance or teaching opportunities? Do you want to know more about how to help yourself into health, energy and vitality? Consider a private
session and let us help you gain the success you are looking for.
Contact us now to book your special time during the conference:
Singing Bowl Massage and Energy Lifter: 20 minutes for $30 (10 minute Singing Bowl massage with Natascha Polomski and 10 minutes releasing old patterns with Michelle Greenwell)
Energy Medicine session with: Michelle Greenwell $75 for 45 minutes
Singing Bowl Massage with: Natascha Polomski $50 for 30 minutes