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By Nayeon (Kate) Kim, Student attending Seoul Foreign High School ~~ Lately, I am approached with short clips of my friends trying a TikTok dance. Often, after dance practice, I鈥檒l walk into a classroom and find a group gathered around a phone, laughing as they attempt to learn the latest viral routine. Recently, one of my friends shared how she had mastered a trending TikTok dance in just ten minutes the night before. She was thrilled and exclaimed, half-joking and half-proud, that she must ha...

By Kieron Dwayne Sargeant, Assistant Professor of Dance, Skidmore College ~~ In every classroom I enter鈥攚hether in the U.S. or back home in Trinidad鈥擨 bring rhythm with me. It鈥檚 not something I add to the dance. It is the dance. Rhythm is the structure, the entry point, the thing that tells you not just when to move, but why to move. As both a dancer and a drummer, I don鈥檛 separate movement from rhythm or sound from action. In the Caribbean, we don鈥檛 dance on top of the rhythm鈥攚e are insid...

By Alexandra Beller, CMA, MFA, Artistic Director, Alexandra Beller/Dances, Faculty, The Laban/Bartenieff Institute ~~ How do we give feedback that strengthens without silencing, clarifies without imposing, honors difference without assuming sameness? As dance educators, we regularly offer feedback. It鈥檚 in our syllabi, built into our assessments, and embedded in our studio culture. But most of us were never taught how to give feedback鈥攐nly how to survive it. Many of us carry wounds from well-m...

By Shannon Dooling-Cain, NDEO Special Projects ~~ While honor societies are mostly associated with high schools and colleges, NDEO recognizes that many dancers study dance outside of the school setting. We believe that all dancers deserve to be honored and celebrated. The National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA) is unique in that there are chapters hosted by K-12 schools, community organizations, performing arts organizations, colleges, and yes - even dance studios like yours...

On May 2, President Trump released information about his administration鈥檚 FY 2026 budget proposal. Not all details were shared in this 鈥渟kinny budget,鈥� but the cuts to federal education programs outlined would have a devastating impact on funding for the 2026鈥�27 school year...

By Shannon Dooling-Cain, NDEO Special Projects ~~ Thank A Dance Teacher Day was started in 2014 by the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) in recognition of the transformative impact of dance education and the teachers who make it possible.. Held annually on the first Thursday in May, Thank A Dance Teacher Day is a perfect time to show your gratitude to the dance teachers who make a difference in your life! Make some plans now to celebrate Thank A Dance Teacher Day 2025 on May 1st...

By Shannon Dooling-Cain, NDEO Special Projects ~~ As part of Thank a Dance Teacher Day 2025, we are honoring Susan McGreevy-Nichols, NDEO鈥檚 Executive Director and Chief Executive Operator, who will retire this summer. In addition to her work with NDEO, Sue had a long and impactful career as a dance educator. As a teacher at Roger Williams Middle School in Providence, Rhode Island from 1974-2002, Sue founded and developed that institution鈥檚 nationally renowned middle school dance program. Her w...

By Helen Buck-Pavlick, Doctoral Student, The Ohio State University ~~ Could dance education support school improvement goals? Lorain City School District says yes! At the start of the 2022-2023 school year, Lorain City School District (LCSD) created a K-12 dance program as a part of their strategic plan for academic improvement. A new study titled Dance for ALL: Innovative approaches to school improvement, recently published in Arts Education Policy Review, examines how and why LCSD decided on a...

by Susan McGreevy-Nichols, NDEO Executive Director and CEO, and Julie Pentz, NDEO President ~~ It is with mixed emotions that I announce my retirement as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Dance Education Organization as of July 1, 2025. It has been a glorious experience heading the organization and certainly is the high point of my professional life. After 13 years of service as ED/CEO, I am ready to step away from the demands and pace of running a national organizat...

By Dr. Christi Camper Moore, Associate Professor of Dance and Head of Arts Administration, & Olivia Lybarger, Student, Ohio University ~~ his blog reviews a semester-long choreographic investigation, developed and guided by movement research that focused on ecological balance, the human relationship with consumption, and the earth and its ecosystems. Olivia is an Environmental Studies major and Dance minor, and Christi is an Associate Professor of Dance. The authors were curious about an interdi...

At NDEO, we are committed to offering programs and services that help dance educators foster student development through dance education. Student development is the process of how students grow and develop their skills, both inside and outside of the classroom - or in our case, the dance studio! When considering student development, their academic, social, emotional, and physical growth and well-being are taken into account. As dance educators, we know that dance has a positive impact on student...

By Zachary Keita ~~ With approximately two months having passed since the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, his administration has taken significant action to move forward his vision for American education. In a blog released earlier this year, we discussed the slew of executive orders aimed at curtailing diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA) and expanding school choice. Since then, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate, taken office, ...

By Deepa Mahadevan, Founder/Director, Matrusena ~~ When the lights came on we were five Bharatanatyam dancers posing as live sculptures and hoping to recreate in the minds of the audience a snapshot of an evergreen film song, 鈥淢annavan Vandhaan Adi鈥� from the movie, 鈥楾iruvarulchelvar鈥� (1967). The impetus for this blog is the affect or the unformed tension that took place in my mind-body as a Bharatanatyam dancer when negotiating my conservative classical aesthetic biases while giving form to ...

By Zachary Keita, NAfME Advocacy and Public Policy Communications Manager ~~ On February 12, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a confirmation hearing of President Trump鈥檚 nominee for U.S. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon. During the hearing, McMahon responded to inquiries regarding her experience and knowledge on programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and outlined her vision for ED if she were to be confirmed by the full Senate ...

By Shannon Dooling-Cain, NDEO Special Projects ~~ In 2025, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts, the premiere honor society for dance in the United States. NHSDA was established by the National Dance Education Organization in 2005 to recognize outstanding artistic merit, leadership, and academic achievement in students studying dance...