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Dance Meditation

Therapeutic Art Activities

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Dance Improvisation

Community Building Activities

28 Dance Improvisation Exercises

The reviews are in - and dance teachers like you are LOVING The Holistic Collection of Dance Improvisation Prompts & Activities. This is the best-selling resource in The Holistic Dance Teacher Collection, used by hundreds of dance educators in studios, schools, and universities. Whether you are introducing students to improv for the first time, or want to challenge your advanced students with new improv concepts, this collection will make it easy for you – and fun for your students!

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Get professional feedback on your dance performance

Get professional feedback on your dance performance before competition or auditions - at an affordable price! A highly reviewed adjudicator with 17 years as a choreographer and educator, I take pride in providing feedback that dancers really need to make every performance their best! Get some extra input on technique and artistry for solos, small groups, and productions in contemporary, lyrical, jazz, modern, and ballet. I look forward to helping you excel on stage this year!

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Dance Class Games

Teacher Team Building

Help your dances perform their best TOGETHER on stage!

Dancers who play well together, perform well together! The Holistic Dance Teacher Team Building Dance Games are perfect for dance teachers who are starting new classes this spring, or who want their team to perform their best TOGETHER at comps and performances this spring. These activities are 100% educational, helping students get to know one another and develop important skills like communication, cooperation, and empathy. Save 10% with code PINTEREST at checkout!

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Warm Up Routine

6 Kinds of Creative Rest that Dancers Need

Creative rest is vital for dancers to help them train and perform their best! Dancers need time to reconnect with their bodies, ignite their creativity, relieve stress, and restore their overall well-being. The Holistic Collection of Dance Activities for Creative Rest features 15 unique movement activities that will help dancers get all the kinds of creative rest they need! Perfect for your own practices or for dance teachers to incorporate into lesson plans. Save 10% with the code PINTEREST!

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Mental Relaxation

Somatic Movement

You Will LOVE These Creative Rest Activities

Reviews are in, and dance teachers like you LOVE The Holistic Collection of Dance Activities for Creative Rest! This collection includes 15 unique movement activities that will help you and your students reduce stress and fight burnout. The creative rest dance activities combine somatic movement, improvisation, and mindful reflection to help encourage physical recovery, creative inspiration, and mental relaxation. Save 10% with the code PINTEREST at checkout!

Reviews are in, and dance teachers like you are LOVING The Holistic Collection of Dance Games for the Spring Season! These Spring-themed games will keep your students learning all season long, celebrating the all things Spring and spring holidays like St. Patrick's Day, April Fools Day, Easter, and more! This truly unique collection of innovative dance games perfectly channel the exuberance of Spring – while helping your students grow in dance technique, artistry, and overall well-being! Spring Lesson Plans, Games For All Ages, Spring Lessons, Spring Dance, Think Spring

Think Spring with these Must-Have Dance Class Games!

Reviews are in, and dance teachers like you are LOVING The Holistic Collection of Dance Games for the Spring Season! These Spring-themed games will keep your students learning all season long, celebrating the all things Spring and spring holidays like St. Patrick's Day, April Fools Day, Easter, and more! This truly unique collection of innovative dance games perfectly channel the exuberance of Spring – while helping your students grow in dance technique, artistry, and overall well-being!

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Dance Lesson Plans

Social And Emotional Learning

List Of Skills

Unit Plan

Lesson Planning

Create Better Dance Lesson Plans

The reviews are in, and dance teachers like you are LOVINGThe Holistic Guide to Dance Lesson Planning! Give your dance lesson plans a refresh and streamline your weekly class planning with this dance lesson planning guide that delivers results! Help your students grow in technique, artistry, and overall well-being through social and emotional learning with this lesson planning guide – a much-loved process for creating lessons that keep you organized and your students progressing all year long!

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Resources that Dance Teachers LOVE!

If you are a dance teacher who has been feeling overworked, burnt out, or uninspired, The Holistic Dance Teacher Resources Bundle is for you! Transform your dance teaching practice without sacrificing your work-life balance, using this comprehensive collection of ready-to-use tools for dance teachers that will help you plan better lessons, connect with and engage your students, and deliver a dance experience that will inspire and impact your dance students for years to come!

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Put the Perfect Final Touch on Your Choreography

Choreographers - it is vital that we edit and refine our choreography before taking it to the stage for performance. This process can be daunting, but there are some basic principles, often taught in dance composition classes, that are helpful for editing and refining choreography. I have also developed some of my own strategies through trial and error throughout my choreographic career. This blog post includes my ten favorite ways to edit and refine choreography.

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Improve your Dance Composition Skills

Dance composition is the foundation of great choreography - but so often basic compositional skills are not taught to emerging choreographers. This blog post features 10 choreography prompts to dance makers to explore dance composition principles and choreographic tools, rooted in a Western modern concert dance approach to dance making. Choreographers will experiment with level, tempo, perspective, retrograding, pathway, inversion, and more using these choreography prompts.

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Become a Better Choreographer

By adopting some simple creative practices, choreographers can ignite their creativity, improve their choreography skills, and grow as choreographers. The strategies described below are simple but highly effective ways that choreographers at any stage of their career can deepen and improve the effectiveness of their choreographic process. They are my go-to creative practices, and I'm happy to share them with you in this blog post!

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Do You Need a Creative Challenge?

Are you feeling stuck as a choreographer? Are you experiencing choreography block or creative burnout? These 15 choreography prompts will give you the creative challenge that you need! Reignite your creativity and take your choreography to the next level with the choreography prompts in this blog post. Perfect for use in your own creative practice or with your dance composition students.

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Out In Nature

Social Justice Issues

Creative Challenge

Teaching Tools

Flex Your Choreography Muscles

Choreography Adventures are innovative prompts that can be used by dance makers at any stage of their career to create short, informal, and experimental “dancettes” wherever they may find the space and time – whether it is in the studio, out in nature, or in their living room! Use the Choreography Adventures to flex your choreographic muscles, push your creative limits, and make a small stash of dances that you can draw from when you feel “choreographers’ block” coming on. T

Creative Rest Activities for Dancers

Making time for creative rest activities is an important way that we can keep our minds, bodies, and spirits refreshed and ready for whatever dance throws at us next. These dance activities are designed to help you easily embrace creative rest in your own life, and share it with your dancers. You will love the physical, emotional, mental, and creative restoration that you’ll find through adding these creative rest activities to your lesson plans, warm-up routine, or workout schedule!

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