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By Susan McGreevy-Nichols, NDEO Executive Director ~~ 
NDEO joins the arts education community in mourning the loss of James Catterall, who passed away on August 23, 2017 in Los Angeles. We celebrate his life and work, which was pivotal in advancing arts education research, and acknowledge with gratitude his contributions to our 2013 publication Evidence: A Report on the Impact of Dance...

By Hilary Harper-Wilcoxen, MFA ~~ Not that long ago, after teaching for almost ten years, I began to experience a minor existential crisis.

I felt like an expert in my subject area, Dance in Higher Ed, but didn’t feel like I was a very good teacher. I realized I hadn’t been taught to teach, not during my professional career in NYC or even, really, during grad school for my MFA. I wondered if, maybe, I didn’t really know what I was doing. As I looked around my college and talked to variou...

By Susan McGreevy-Nichols, NDEO Executive Director ~~ NDEO was saddened to learn of the passing of Chuck Davis, widely considered the father of African Dance in America. Davis passed on Sunday, May 14, 2017, at his home in Durham, North Carolina, at the age 80. Davis was a Bessie-award winning dancer, choreographer, and educator...