HOW TO GROW GOOD HUMANS: How Dance Education is Essential to Growing a Good Human By Arianna Dunmire When you get 40 professional dance educators in one room you get hundreds of good answerers to the essential question: Why is …
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DEL Essentials Students write about their experience this summer in the classroom with DEL Founder, Jody Arnhold, and DEL Founding Faculty, Ann Biddle. Learning is live at DEL. The “Essentials” course has been an eye opening and enriching experience. Prior …
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Sumi and I (Summation Dance) had the honor of facilitating DEL’s 20th anniversary Movement Sentence Choir in February! We have been involved with DEL since 2008, but this was our first opportunity to step into a leadership role. We wanted …
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Erica Rosenberg made her way from Broadway into the classroom. Read on to learn about her pathway into dance education! 1. What is your current position in dance education and how did it come to be? Please describe your role. …
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Ashlie Kirby holds a BFA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MFA from University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She was a professional dancer in NYC for nine years, working for choreographers Jessica Gaynor and Pam Tanowitz and …
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Georgia is a DEL student enrolled in DEL Foundations, the first recommended course for all new DEL students. Below is her reflection on the first day of class. It is so wonderful to see that DEL students are using the …
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I have been performing puppet shows for young children for six years. I incorporate singing, movement, pantomime, storytelling and thematic content that hooks in kids’ imagination and playfulness. I have been drawn to movement more and more as an expressive …
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The participants in the DEL Planet Dance workshop went on a transformative journey this past week. We traveled to many cultures and countries through the study of dance, and together we built a strong and richly diverse community. I came …
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I left my first day of the 92Y Dance Education Laboratory’s workshop, “Planet Dance” leaping on air. I couldn’t stop grinning, dancing and commenting. I had a joined a group of other dancers and educators to listen to a reading …
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I have just finished Week 1 of the DEL Summer Institute and took the course, The Dance Educator Prepares. I do believe this is the best possible way I could have used my vacation. I thought that four hours a …
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