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By Shannon Dooling-Cain ~~In this blog series, we will be sharing updates from NDEO members about their work, practices, and accomplishments. These members replied to NDEO鈥檚 call for submissions in early 2025. Each month, we plan to share another blog post introducing more members. Five members are featured in this post: Grace Johnson-Wright, Annabelle Lenzu, Mark DeGarmo, Miranda Rubio Opsal, Tara Miller, and Olga A. Berest...

By Melissa Greenblatt, NDEO Interim Executive Director ~~ NOW is the TIME to join NDEO and become part of a community dedicated to advancing dance education and supporting the educators who bring it to life. NDEO, as the largest membership association supporting dance education, is uniquely positioned to ensure that all students have the opportunity to experience the transformative power of dance in their lives...

By Shannon Dooling-Cain, NDEO Special Projects ~~ In this blog series, we will be sharing updates from NDEO members about their work, practices, and accomplishments. These members replied to NDEO鈥檚 call for submissions in early 2025. Each month, we plan to share another blog post introducing more members. Five members are featured in this post: Erika Vasquez, Dena Cronholm, Grace Gallagher, Tamara Irving, Sean McLeod, and May Kesler...

By Jill Vasbinder Morrison, Faculty in Dance at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County ~~ Dance is more than just movement; it is an oral tradition that we share through the stories told by our bodies. It connects us across generations, allowing us to learn from our elders and carry on their legacies. Have you taken the time to connect with your dance teachers or mentors recently? I encourage you to reach out, whether it鈥檚 for coffee, a walk, or simply a chat. These connections can inspir...

By Shannon Dooling- Cain, NDEO Special Projects ~~ In this blog series, we will be sharing updates from NDEO members about their work, practices, and accomplishments. These members replied to NDEO鈥檚 call for submissions in early 2025. Each month, we plan to share another blog post introducing more members. Five members are featured in this post: Ashley Caldeira, Alfonso Cervera, Denise Garvin, Hilarie Neely, Corrine Oliver, and Yvonne Racz...

By Madison E. Lence, Dance Choreographer and Educator ~~ Dance is a versatile discipline that requires a plethora of schooled skill for an individual to be successful in their field of dance. One such area of dance that necessitates a keen knowledge is the understanding of music. Music is coupled with the practice of dance, yet many people disregard its significance to the education of a dance student. Far too often I have found myself in a class or rehearsal where the instructions being given c...

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 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 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 Gina D'Antonio-Spears, Dance Educator, Portage Park Elementary School ~~ When I was a student, my dance teacher would say, 鈥淥ne more time!鈥� but we knew it meant several more times. This is so common that they make tee shirts about it. So, how do we get our students to value the rehearsal process, and understand that even though the learning is complete, there is still more to do? To solve this problem, I teach specific dance elements during the rehearsal process, keeping each lesson fee...