Teachers Courses
NEW! The Dance Teachers Forum
The Dance Teacher Forum was created to provide a base where dance teachers can freely discuss teaching ideas, psychology, dance medicine, and current and evolving issues (e.g. inclusion, diversity, and sustainability). Teaching dance can sometimes be very lonely and you feel like you are alone in your school or freelance work, BUT we can build a community to discuss topics that are relevant to your career.
 | Info The Dance Teachers Forum English Here is the PDF file with all the information and themes for the new Forum English Info Dance Forum.pdf (2.31MB) |
Here is the PDF file with all the information and themes for the new Forum
| English Info Dance Forum.pdf (2.31MB) |
Let's Discuss.... Teaching the Beginnings!* A New Series of Developmental Psychology Courses
... of Dance!
New training methods and research incorporated into the teaching of young children! Specializing on teaching the age range of 3 - 7.
This course will not only improve your talents of teaching the young ones, it will refresh and inspire you on how the brain works and learns.
- Developing (loco-) motor skills
- Key building blocks for postural control, balance and coordination
- How imagery works
Location: Online - Zoom: 21.09.2022 09.30 - 12.30
Fee: 45€*
... of Classical Ballet!
New training methods and research incorporated into the teaching of children! Specializing on teaching the age range of 8 - 13.
This course will not only improve your knowledge of teaching this age group, it will provide you on how the brain develops and how this can be trained through classical ballet and movement.
- Developing skills in classical ballet
- Continuation of key building blocks for postural control, balance and coordination
- Exercises from educational kinesiology will be introduced to improve the way the human body can move, learn and perform
Location: Online - Zoom: 28.09.2022 09.30 - 12.30
Fee: 45€*
... of Teaching Through Adolescence!
Training methods and research incorporated into the teaching of students entering puberty and going through adolescence! Specializing on the age range of 11+.
This course will not only improve your knowledge of teaching this age group, it will provide you detailed information on the many different changes the students will experience in this period of development.
- Developing skills in classical ballet whilst in adolescence
- Further development or re-tuning of postural control, balance and coordination
- Discussions and breakout rooms on experiences, current issues etc.
Location: Online - Zoom: 05.10.2022 09.30 - 12.30
Fee: 45€*
* If all 3 courses are booked together the reduced price is 110€
Let's Discuss a Ballet Class!
In this 6-hour CPD course we will actively discuss, through group discussions and breakout rooms the structure of a ballet class.
The aims of this CPD course are to discuss:
- How much influence does dance medicine have on the way we presently teach?
- Have we changed and gone with the times or are we still teaching how it was at the start of the 20th Century?
- What is Barre Work? How can we vary an exercise in order for it to be beneficial for the lesson? These are just some of the topics which will be discussed
- There will also be short discussions on the different methods and some comparisons.
- It's the what, how and why!
Location: Online - Zoom. DATES to be finalized
Let's Discuss Music in the Studio!
In this 3-part, 12 hour course you increase your knowledge and understanding of time signatures and dance styles. It is not just a theoretical course but a course where there will be discussions on what the music and musicality can positively or negatively do to a movement or an exercise.
We will be supported with MP3’s for this course from a world-class pianist, Mladen Dabizljevic. Currently, Mladen is based in Switzerland (Zurich University of the Arts), and has a great experience ranging from solo piano repertoire to chamber music, from playing and conducting the great ballet repertoire to the composition of his own music. https://www.mladendabizljevic.com/theballetpianist
The aims of this CPD course are to:
- develop your abilities to hear and count rhythmically in time signatures and music styles common to ballet class
- improve your knowledge and understanding of musical forms, structures and introductions
- increase your confidence in working with varying styles and genres of music in a ballet class
- to provide skills of how to work with a pianist when needed
Location: Online Zoom: DATES to be finalized