Call for Somatic movement sessions, panel discussions, current research presentations, and curriculum design workshops for a joint Special Topic Conference between NDEO and ISMETA July 19-21, 2024 at Gibney in New York, NY. Submissions due February 29, 2024.

Announcing a new NDEO Special Topic Conference - What Data Can Do for You: Data-Driven Opportunities in Dance Education

February 24 - 25, 2024, Oakland University School of Music, Theatre and Dance, Rochester, MI (Detriot area)

CONNECTIONS: PreK-12 Dance Education Summit on January 20, 2024 - Registration is Now Open!  What is a Virtual Summit? A 1-Day mini-conference packed with live virtual sessions for dance teachers! Our Virtual Summit for PreK-12 Dance Educators will feature 10+ live virtual sessions for prek-12 dance teachers delivered across 5 different session blocks, including movement sessions, panel discussions, and paper presentations on various topics and for different prek-12 environments.

NDEO invites all individual participants and chapters of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA) to join us in celebrating "NHSDA Love Your Body Week" - a national campaign to encourage body positivity and celebrate all the wonderful things our bodies can do.

By Nancy & Allegra Romita ~~

One thing is constant from the moment we enter this world as humans until the day we leave.

We breathe.

We breathe automatically and unconsciously.

We also breathe in intricate and sophisticated ways. For example, singers, horn players, actors, and athletes often train in breathing patterns to improve technique. Breath training is a useful strategy to enhance both musicality and performance...

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By Pascal Rekoert, Assistant Professor and Dance Education Program Director at Central Connecticut State University ~~

As teachers, we spend endless time lesson planning, pondering the needs and joys of our students, and looking into our proverbial crystal ball. This process prioritizes our direct future, but what about the life learnings we implicitly share with our students? What about the distant future, the professional legacy we leave behind? My summer was a period laden with loss and...

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Submit your application to be President-Elect of the NDEO Board of Directors. Submit your application by following the directions found here.

Applications are due November 5th. 

By Christine Mazeppa, Adjunct Professor of Dance at University of Miami ~~

As an avid reader and writer who has spent the last eighteen years teaching dance and language arts to high school students, I have long been fascinated by the effects of language and literature on movement. The connection between the two subjects is so present for me that it is often difficult to teach one subject without drawing from the other. My approach to teaching dance is much the same way I would teach my language...

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By Gina D'Antonio-Spears, Dance Educator, Portage Park Elementary, Chicago Public Schools ~~

When I was growing up in Raleigh NC back in the 1980’s, I did not discover that dance was taught in K-12 schools until I started high school. When I began high school, I learned that our prestigious magnet school offered dance, and I knew I had to go there. I was surrounded by high achieving students who wanted to become doctors and lawyers, but the reason I was there was because I wanted to dance...

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By Wendy Masterson, MSMS/T, RSDE, MFA ~~

A few years ago, a group of women met and began sharing their stories as dance educators living with cancer. Each brought deep insight and affirmation that dance has played a significant role supporting personal and professional growth while facing the challenges of diagnosis, surgery, and recovery from cancer; and in processing the experience through artistic, somatic, and pedagogical explorations. As a collective, this group shared discussion, writing, and movement sessions within the group and with larger communities...

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