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Things I Never Thought About Before Becoming A Dance Teacher

October 12, 2015 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

Teaching dance isn’t all fun and games – I knew that going in. But, throughout 20 years as a dance instructor I have discovered some surprising difficulties and rewards in this career – things I never thought to think about at the start.

Filed Under: Blog, Career in Dance, Featured, Teaching Tagged With: careers in dance, challenges, dance lifestyle, dance teacher, rewards of dance, teaching career, working with parents

This Is Why I Bother

December 21, 2011 by Guest Contributors

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To those who aren’t dancers or teachers, all the little rules and details we observe and require of our students may seem silly or pointless. But we have our reasons and they’re illustrated in Melanie Doskocil’s final entry for the year in Ballet’s Un-X-pected Lesson Files.

Filed Under: Blog, Costumes Etc., For Parents of Young Children, Performing, Teaching Tagged With: backstage rules, Ballet's Un-X-pected Lesson Files, build character, crazy dance rules, dance moms, dance rituals, discipline of dance, life lessons, mediocrity, Nutcracker, pre-performance ritual, pre-show, rewards of dance, rules of performance, safety, teaching young dancers, tradition, unexpected lessons, why bother, why do you dance, why do you teach, why we do it

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