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All Times Are Listed in Eastern Time - if you register after 6pm ET on Friday, July 25th, please expect to receive your access links by 8:30am on Monday July 27th. 

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.

These choices ripple outward into collegiate dance programs, commercial industries, concert companies, adjudication systems, community arts spaces, and broader public perceptions of dance. Private studios are a diverse and critical part of the dance ecosystem. 

We invite all dance studio teachers and owners to join us July 27 at our 2026 Virtual Summit: Private Studio, Public Impact: A Virtual Summit for Dance Studio Teachers.

What Is Included?

• 15+ live virtual classes for dance teachers to choose from within 5 different session blocks
• .5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) earned at each Virtual Summit
• Access to all recorded sessions for 1 month after the event

*All sessions will feature captioning provided by a CART specialist. Several sessions throughout the day will also feature ASL interpretation (if you need ASL please be sure to note that on your registration by July 20th). All ASL/CC will be noted on the final schedule. If you have any other specific access needs, please note this on your registration.*

Pricing (after June 30th)

• Member: $145
• Non-Members: $205