Hello! I am a retired dance teacher for now 8 years and I sadly miss dancing. I wish I would have had this site when I taught! I hope I can still be helpful to all of the teachers out there I would love to still teach and I am thinking about maybe teaching some summer classes. We are moving 6 months north (probably VA/DC) and 6 months south (FL).

Welcome to the boards! I'm sure you will be able to pass on alot of helpful ideas to the members!

Welcome, as DancingDiva736 says I'm sure you will be able to give a lot of good advice.

Welcome!!! We can always use more input from experienced teachers! How long did you teach for before you retired?

Thank you! I taught 30 wonderful years! And when I was 13 I started as a teaching assistant to our tator tots hehe (out tiny tots age 2.5 to 4 we called tator tots I am here to help and give advise to anyone that needs it. Both of my daughters danced and my youngest still dances in college, she is graduating this year, oh I feel old

Welcome to the site! I am looking forward to reading your input!

Hi, I'm retired as well and lovin' it,I might add!
Have fun exploring the boards. This site is alot of fun and has alot of great people on it.

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Welcome. I love advice from instructors that have years of experience. I look forward to having your input!

Welcome. I love this web site. Where else can I talk to people who teach little bitty kids preballet? It's a passion with me and it's been wonderful to read about dances and techniques that have worked with other teachers.
Do you have any dances that work for the tiniest of your dancers at a recital? 2 year olds??? and young 3's??

We had a baby pre-dance class and for our ballet number, we danced 'My heart belongs to Daddy' and the girls were able to dance on stage with their daddies and we have two mommies too

I find if the song has words in it that they are able to mimick like 'Tap you toes, pointe your toes, clap your hands, etc.' they hear that and do that and it helps so much

Hope that helps!