Perpetuating weight stigma in dance
“You have a pretty face but you are carrying too much weight" …um thanks I guess?...
“You have a pretty face but you are carrying too much weight" …um thanks I guess?...
So many of us are implicitly and tacitly devaluing our students without even realising it. But what can we do about it?...
Sometimes I think my approach to ballet pedagogy makes me a fraud. But maybe ballet technique just needs to get dirty. ...
Compliant. Obliging. Obedient. These are things I NEVER want my students to be - in the studio or in life. ...
Sure, you've got values. But what are they doing for you? Are you teaching them and are they being embodied?...
Visual schedules are a great strategy to support students with autism in the dance studio. Here's a few things I've learned along the way...
"in this context, disruption shifts from being something powerful and full of potential into something that is negative, inconvenient, unwanted....
Sure, you need to train your team. But where do you begin? I use these three stages to plan effective and impactful team training...
Exclusive and outdated teaching isn’t only harmful to students. It’s holding our industry back and it's also killing your profitability. I'm here to change that - one teacher, one studio, one school at a time....