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TEACHING IS LEADING: Embracing our Impact & Opportunity as Dance Educators
September 28, 2023 - October 01, 2023
Start/End Date
09/28/2023 - 10/01/2023Time
8:00 AM - 8:30 PMEarly Bird Discount Deadline
06/01/2023Registration Deadline
09/28/2023Location
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center650 15th St
Denver, CO 80202
Dance teachers wear many hats. We are educators, choreographers, mentors, directors, artists, coaches, coordinators, decision-makers, advocates, and LEADERS. As dance educators, we may not always identify as leaders. We may think that only those with certain job titles, qualifications, or in select sectors qualify for this title.
At NDEO’s 2023 National Conference, Teaching is Leading: Embracing Our Impact and Opportunity as Dance Educators, we invite you to explore the diverse ways you lead in the classroom, the studio, your communities, and elsewhere. Regardless of which setting we teach in or where we are in our career, dance teachers are constantly guiding, managing, developing, advocating, directing, creating, and communicating. We set the tone for our classes; we build relationships with students, parents, and administrators; we overcome obstacles for the sake of our programs; and we advocate for dance and demonstrate its tremendous impact through our teaching. This year in Denver we come together to explore and embrace our impact as leaders. Join us as we raise respect for the field of dance education and make the implicit explicit. If you are a dance teacher, you are a leader.
Held annually in the fall, a typical in-person NDEO National Conference includes three full days of over 250 workshops, master classes, panel and paper presentations, social events and performances. A full day of pre-conference intensives precedes the official start of conference. The full conference schedule is generally released online over the summer before that year's conference.
**Please click the Pricing tab above to view conference registration prices. Below you will find information on booking your hotel room with our host hotel.**
Cancelation & Refunds:
- CANCELATION & REFUND POLICY: $50 administration fee charged. No refunds after 8/31/23.
- CHANGES TO REGISTRATION: Any changes made to registration after payment may incur a $50 admin fee (per registration). No changes after 8/31/23.
Conference Hotel
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
650 15th St
Denver, CO 80202
Discounted Room Rates:
- $209 + tax / night (single and double occupancy)
- $234 + tax / night (triple occupancy)
- $259 + tax / night (quadruple occupancy)
- Discounted rates are available through August 23, 2023 or until rooms sell out, whichever comes first.
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Agenda
Friday - September 29 | ||
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Conference 2023 Commemorative Shirt
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Pre-order your 2023 Conference Shirt and pick up when you register onsite! The exact design will be released closer to the event and will be printed on a long sleeve shirt. |
$30.00 | |
Pre-conference Intensives |
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Thursday - September 28 | ||
8:00 am - 2:00 pm | ||
#1: Bus Tour Exploring K-12 School Dance Programs in Colorado
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Welcome to Colorado! Educators will have the opportunity to see a variety of K-12 Colorado dance programs ranging from public, private, and charter. Please join us to witness the incredible dance education programs in the state! The tour includes bus transportation and a box lunch. Facilitated by CoDEO. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: August 15, 2023. |
$75.00 | |
#2-#8: Pre-conference Intensive Registration
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SELECT THIS TO ATTEND ANY OF INTENSIVES #2-#8. Choose from several pre-conference intensives (listed below), providing in-depth dives into different material. Registrants for this pre-conference day may attend any intensive as long as space remains. Once registered, NDEO will send you a form to reserve your spot in each intensive you'd like to attend. ***Note that K-12 Bus Tour is not included and may be selected separately. READ BELOW TO SEE INTENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS. |
$80.00 | |
8:30 am - 11:30 am | ||
#2: Creativity & Culture: Implicit Bias & Dance-Making with Crystal Davis
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When students develop dances in genres you are not well-versed in, how do you assist, support, and deepen learning? For students creating in a genre you know but have an aesthetic you find unappealing or inappropriate, how do you engage with students around this difference in taste? What are challenges of appropriateness, safety, and culturally relevant understandings of the dance? This workshop uses research, strategies, and activities provided in the book, Dance and Belonging: Implicit Bias and Inclusion in Dance Education, to facilitate a practice of how to disrupt the negative effects of biases when students are creating their own works. Participants will enact a choreographic process that models supporting creativity while addressing audience responses with particular care for students underrepresented, socially marginalized, or historically stigmatized in dance classrooms. |
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9:00 am - 11:00 am | ||
#3: Types of Stretch and When to Use Them with Allegra Romita & Nancy Romita
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This active movement session addresses myths about stretch, explores new approaches, and proposes a shift in dance training constructs about stretching. It presents leading research in motor learning on the benefits of stretching to develop resilience in muscle action and enhance movement potential. Participants learn 7 different approaches to stretching and when to use them within teaching practices for maximum benefit for students. The session uses the Functional Awareness® approach to resilience in action while investigating dynamic, static, prolonged, ballistic, PNF stretching as well as neurocognitive and myofascial release effects on muscular stretch. |
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#4: Are Dance Competitions Disrupting the Power and Progress of Dance Education? facilitated by Chasta Hamilton
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Following up on a highly-engaging NDEO webinar and SIG conversations, we continue to consider the question: Are Dance Competitions Disrupting the Power and Progress of Dance Education? Divided into two, deep-dive segments, Part I will discuss The Facts and The Relation while Part II discusses The Action. Designed for anyone who believes in the power of dance education and transformative leadership, this collaborative environment will respectfully consider dance education's potential for positive, sustainable, and equitable impact as we cultivate the performers, and leaders, of tomorrow. You may attend both parts or either part. Part 1: 9:00 - 11:30 AM; Part 2: 12:30 - 3:00 PM. |
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12:30 pm - 3:00 pm | ||
#5: Moving through Parkinson’s with integrated teaching with Lisa Morgan, Andrew Knight, & Kyle Wilhelm
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Moving Through Parkinson's is a collaborative and integrative program bringing community members living with Parkinson’s together with faculty and students from Colorado State University’s Dance, Music Therapy, and Occupational Therapy programs. The synergy and cross pollination of science and creative practice supports wellness and reveals the value of experiential learning with multiple ages and intentions. The intensive will include an overview of the program, reviewing the dance/movement framework as well as fundamental music therapy theory and practice. We will explore HOW and WHY live music supports movement and empathetic understanding. Participants will explore how we can shift our expectations and roles, and enter into a shared learning process that is inclusive and responsive to who is in the room. These universal tools can transfer to classrooms and/or therapeutic settings. |
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1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | ||
#6: Equity Exploration with Cleo Parker Robinson, asst. by Shelby Jarosz
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Drawing on a 52 year history of artistic excellence, and recognizing that dance is a powerful tool to help focus students’ attention on complex issues of diversity, Cleo Parker Robinson and Cleo Parker Robinson Dancers will begin this exploration with performance of an excerpt from the Ensemble’s repertoire, focusing on issues of racial equity. Attendees will have an opportunity to dive into deep conversation and will investigate ways for teachers and students to address equity issues by establishing “safe space” and open dialogue. Movement elements will encourage attendees to explore their own acknowledgement of the need for continuous healing support of mind, body, and spirit – for themselves and for their students. Dialogue will encourage attendees to present open and honest questions and concerns in a respectful and receiving way. Intensive takes place offsite at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. Error! Line too long on line 29 Error encountered while processing your request. If you continue having difficulties, please contact us. |
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3:15 pm - 6:15 pm | ||
#7: Dancing Around Race–Deeper Dive into Racial Equity with Gerald Casel
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Using tools from Dancing Around Race, Gerald Casel builds on last year's NDEO workshop that reflects his research on race and racism in dance. Through conversations and movement provocations, participants will explore their relationships to power, social position, and how they exist within systems of dance education, performance, and production. Casel writes, "With a group of BIPOC dance artists, I examine what is missing in the research/practice/literature when it comes to operationalizing racial equity. These lacunae form unique methodological tools that transform the lenses through which we explore the social constructions of race." Learning alongside dance communities/ecologies permeates this iterative and ongoing practice, with each gathering expanding what we know, what we don't know, and how to collectively envision how we will get there with collective care. |
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | ||
#8: The Life and Legacy of Daniel Lewis
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This presentation will explore the development of Lewis’ approach to dance education and choreography. His career as an educator, dancer, and administrator begins with teaching at a local dance studio in Brooklyn at age 12. From 1968-1987, he taught at The Juilliard School in New York, and then became the founding Dean of Dance at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida, a high school and college dance program, for 23 years. This talk will include video and stories of performing, teaching, choreographing, and staging the works of master choreographers Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, José Limón, and his own work. Each of these aspects of dance embodies a unique approach to teaching technique and repertory. Lewis will be sharing 67 years of teaching and performing, what it has taught him, and what it contributed to the development of dance. |
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Social Event |
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Friday - September 29 | ||
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm | ||
Grand Opening (9/29) - Chicken Entree
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Please note that this meal is NOT included with One-day Sat 9/30 and Sun 10/1 registrations. |
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Grand Opening (9/29) - Vegan Entree
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Grand Opening (9/29) - Vegan & Gluten Free Entree
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Please select this option if you need a Vegan and Gluten Free Entree. Please note that this meal is NOT included with One-day Sat 9/30 and Sun 10/1 registrations. |
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Grand Opening (9/29) - Not Attending
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Please select this option if you will not be attending the Grand Opening Dinner or if you are Registered for a One-Day Conference on 9/30 or 10/1. |
Speakers
Name | Organization | Speaking At |
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Allegra Romita | New York University |
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Andrew Knight | Colorado State University |
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Chasta Hamilton | Stage Door Dance Productions |
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Cleo Parker Robinson | Cleo Parker Robinson Dance |
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Crystal Davis | University of Mayland - College Park |
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Gerald Casel | Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University |
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Kyle Wilhelm |
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Lisa Morgan | Colorado State University |
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Nancy Wanich Romita | Towson University |
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Shelby Jarosz | Cleo Parker Robinson Dance |
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