How Dance is Taught
Dance educator Daniel Levi-Sanchez advocates for a teaching style that empowers students instead of isolates them. Since acquiring a disability, he has begun to revisit dance with a focus on dance teachers with disabilities.
Changing the Community Perspective
Tebandeke Joseph, an African contemporary dance artist based in Uganda, shares how he aims to change the community perspective on disability through street performances and through the schools, as well as through building an accessible center and library.
Creative Expression through Creative Aging
Magda Kaczmarska, a dancer, researcher, and creative aging teaching artist based in New York City, invites us to consider how we can support interconnectedness and meaningful creative expression for all as we age.
What Movement Means to the Student
New York City-based movement educator Rachel McCaulsky describes how she ended up teaching dance across multiple schools to students with disabilities, and how that led to a passion for writing dance curriculum and developing creative assessment tools.
Advocating for Inclusive Dance in the Public Schools
New York-based dance educator Sandi Stratton-Gonzalez describes her experience working for 20 years at the first fully inclusive public school in the country, and how it led to her later efforts to represent dance educators and advocate for students with disabilities.