The purpose of this article is to address how important a teacher's enthusiasm and the words they use can be. This is funneled through future professionals' teaching experiences, both peer to peer in the college classroom and teaching experiences in a middle school class.

As a result of decades-long dwindling arts funding sources, U.S. nonprofit dance companies struggle to emerge and be sustained. However, mutually beneficial relationships are often developed between nonprofit dance companies and educational institutions such as K-12 schools, universities, and private studios. These relationships enhance students'…

This study aims to understand teacher experiences during the 2020-2021 school year and the impacts of COVID-19 protocols, which forced dance educators to use virtual platforms to teach a movement-dominated art form changing the dance education landscape. The study follows six educators' experiences through phenomenological research describing key…

The purpose of this dissertation is to illuminate the missing voices of historically black college and university dance programs in the national discussion on the history and development of dance in American higher education. The methodology included the selection of five subject schools that are historically black colleges and universities…

Media advances have changed the ways in which we interact, communicate, teach, and learn. The growth of telecommunication, video sharing sites, specifically YouTube, and social media, have exponentially increased the number of people interested in dance and dance education. Technology presents new ways for students to think about their learning,…