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This Summit is designed for all independent studio educators: competitive, pre-professional, recreational, culturally specific, and community-based programs.

Private dance studios are often viewed as small businesses, competition hubs, or extracurricular spaces. But the reality is far more expansive.

Private studios are cultural incubators; whether they participate in competitions, prioritize concert training, center culturally specific dance forms, operate as recreational community programs, or prepare dancers for professional pathways.

We do more than train technique. We shape identity, emotional expression, aesthetic values, confidence, discipline, and career imagination. The private studio is often a young dancer’s first sustained encounter with artistry, collaboration, creative risk-taking, and public performance. At the same time, studios remain welcoming spaces for adults discovering dance for the first time or returning to a long-held passion, making them hubs of lifelong artistic expression.

These choices ripple outward into collegiate dance programs, commercial industries, concert companies, adjudication systems, community arts spaces, and broader public perceptions of dance.

Private studio educators are shaping the next generation of dancers, audiences, educators, and cultural participants. But the independent sector also faces distinct and evolving challenges. Some studios navigate the pressures of competition culture, adjudication systems, and award-based hierarchies. Others navigate sustainability without the financial boost of competition circuits.

We invite studio owners, teachers, choreographers and administrators to consider the folloiwng as a jumping off place as you craft your proposal. Topics do not need to be limited to these questions.

• How do you navigate the challenges of creating rigorous programming that allows for students to take different pathways - collegiate, commercial, concert, recreational, community-based, or no future with dance at all?
• How do your leadership decisions shape studio culture and student outcomes?
• How do you explore dance history in the studio in order to preserve the roots and avoid appropriation?
• How do you navigate the increased socio-emotional needs among youth in the classroom?
• How do you utilize technology in the classroom to foster and encourage growth?
• How do you balance entrepreneurial demands that require educators to also be marketers, administrators, and business owners?
• How do you prioritize process-based training while meeting performance-driven goals?
• How do you navigate cycles of trend consumption and aesthetic replication
• How do you navigate social media concerns regarding shortened attention spans, approval based worthiness and comparison. 
• How do you preserve genre integrity while responding to evolving cultural trends

What is a Virtual Summit?

A 1-Day mini-conference packed with live sessions for dance teachers! 

Our Virtual Summit for Dance Educators will feature 10+ live virtual sessions for dance teachers on the topic of Dance and Disability delivered across 5 different session blocks, including movement sessions, panel discussions, and paper presentations on various topics and for different environments. 

In addition to our annual in-person NDEO Conference, our Virtual Summits are an accessible professional development alternative for those who are not able to attend the in-person NDEO Conferences.

What Is Included?

• 10+ live virtual sessions for dance teachers delivered across 5 different session blocks, including movement sessions, panel discussions, and paper presentations on various topics concerning Dance and Disability.
• 0.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) earned after attending the full day of sessions.
• Access to all recorded sessions for 1 month after the event

Accessibility

If you require any accommodations please note this on your registration.

• All sessions will feature either AI generated Closed Captioning or captioning provided by a CART (communication access real-time translation) specialist.
• A session in each time slot will feature ASL interpretation.
• All accessibility measures will be noted on the final schedule.

Registration Fees

Presenter Rate

• $50

Early Bird Pricing through June 30, 2026

• Members - $95
• Non-Members - $160

Regular Pricing after July 1, 2026

• Members - $145
• Non-Members - $205

• April 29, 2026 - Session Proposals Due
• May 15, 2026 - Presenter Acceptances Sent Out
• June 15, 2026 - Schedule to be released
• July 27, 2026 - Virtual Summit