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Dance Teacher Summit: August 5 – 7, 2013

March 6, 2012

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I will be teaching at the Dance Teacher Summit in NYC. Please stop by The Body Series booth in the vendor area and say hello!

For more info go to: http://danceteachersummit.com

When I came across your site it was a perfect tool for me as a teacher. I have danced since the age of 5. When I graduated from undergraduate school, I felt lost as to what I wanted to do. I was teaching dance at the time, and realized how much I enjoyed teaching technique and relating anatomy and biomechanics to dance. I found it helped to not just tell my girls what I wanted them to do, but the reasons behind what I was teaching them. Now I am in my 1st year of physical therapy school. School is very hard, but I am so motivated to learn because I cannot wait to learn more and more and be able to work with dancers upon graduation. You continue to be a role model for me.

Nicole

My name is Alanna, and i have recently subscribed to your Dancing Smart Newsletter on a routine search on dance online, i have found what i have read so far highly informative and interesting, and also extremely motivated!!! I have just read your article on Increasing Flexibility, it has been a great read, and definitely a very to the point source of information on Fascia, a term, and part of the body I have never myself come across, or heard of!!! But it makes so much sense, as today i have returned home from my year level at college's camp, which i have managed to pull the lower part of the muscle in my back connecting the superficial back line. I have been highly curious as to what made it so painful to walk, as each step flared the pain up in that muscle, i figured there must be some connection there, but was unsure, but you have confirmed my assumption, and gave a very clear explanation I thought. I will be practicing now using careful massaging of my neck and other muscles in connection in this line. Thank you for being there for people like myself to approach, it is greatly, and warmly appreciated.

Alanna

Deborah's Vogel's Essential Anatomy Multimedia Course is absolutely essential for every dance teacher wishing to optimize their teaching! The course is composed of 10 video lectures with corresponding lecture notes and study guides making it easy for a busy studio owner/mom to find time to learn more about anatomy. Ms. Vogel explains basic anatomy from a dance perspective and provides exercises on how to gain more stregth and flexibility for demanding dance movements. Information regarding Osgood Schlatter's disease has proven particularly relevant as I am currently working with a student suffering from that disease. Her teaching tips at the end of course are incredibly helpful and I will be sharing them with my faculty at our next meeting. Thank you Deborah for creating this course for dance teachers!

Kimberly

Huntington Academy of Dance