On Friday 26 May 2017 there is an IADMS Regional Meeting in UK. The day focuses on The Adolescent Dancer. Continue reading
Book now – closing date Tuesday 25 April
Bookings for the current two short online CPD courses for dance teachers close tomorrow, Tuesday 25 April 2017. If you want to take either of these courses you need to make sure you book your course/s on time.
You can book via Paypal or Credit Card. Go to Book a Course page.
Information about all the courses offered by Dr Sho Botham here at cpdfordanceteachers.com is available at the Short Online Courses page.
If you need some external CPD to make up your hours for this CPD year then these two courses could be just what you are looking for. If you want to enhance your understanding of Proprioception and explore how it helps the performance of your students then sign up now for the Proprioception course. Or if you want to explore Mindfulness in Dance Teaching and how it can give you a new dimension to your dance teaching then you can sign up for the Mindfulness in Dance Teaching course now.
Proprioception and Mindfulness courses – book now
You can book the following courses now. Continue reading
Useful articles about injury risk and recovery
Here are links to a couple of articles from Dance Magazine about risk and recovery from injury. I am sure you will find them interesting.
There is a lot of good information available today about helping dancers, dance students and dance teachers to pay attention to safe dance practice and consider dancer health and wellbeing during training. Continue reading
Teaching dance to older people and Mindfulness in dance teaching
The closing date for booking these two short online cpd courses is today – Friday 10 March. You can books your place on one or both courses here.
For more information about these courses and to download course information sheets click here.
Earlier articles about the courses :
Teaching dance to older people
More short online courses starting soon – book now
The closing date for the next two short online courses is 10 March 2017. So you still have time to book your place on either or both courses. You can book these courses now.
The two courses are, the brand new: Mindfulness in Dance Teaching and the popular Teaching Dance to Older People. For general information about the short online courses visit the Short Online Courses page – scroll down for information about individual courses.
At only £55 per course, these are fantastic value and a great way to do some CPD.
New information sheet – Mindfulness in Dance Teaching
The information sheet for the brand new course, ‘Mindfulness in Dance Teaching’ has been added to the short online courses information page.
You can book this new course now. Please remember to check the closing date for any courses you wish to book.
You can read an article about Mindfulness in Dance Teaching here.
Mindfulness – Ruby Wax
Dance teachers are busy people. How often do we hear about how a teacher is rushing around or trying to fit in an extra class or doing some other busy thing? Below is a video of a lecture given by Ruby Wax in 2013 about Mindfulness. Continue reading
Book a course
Exciting news!
Courses for March and April 2017 are available to book now.
General information is available about courses on the Short Online Courses page. The brand new course Mindfulness in Dance Teaching will have an information sheet available shortly.
Short courses early 2017
Dates for the first group of short online cpd courses for dance teachers in 2017 will be published on the site next week.
You will be able to book your short courses then too.
So don’t forget to check back here next week to find out about short courses coming up very soon.
You can find general information about the Short Courses here. The new Mindfulness in Dance Teaching short online course will be added to the list shortly. Why not read the recent article about this topic?
Dance imagery
Imagery was part of my dance training although I did not think of it as movement or dance imagery at the time. It was just something we incorporated into our training and performance. When I first took part in a movement/dance imagery workshop with Eric Franklin at an IADMS (International Association for Dance Medicine & Science) conference many years ago I was reminded of how important imagery is in dance learning and teaching.
Articles and books
In recent years there has been an increasing amount of articles and books promoting the positive use of imagery in training, rehearsal and performance. Although imagery has been around for a very long time it is still relatively new to some. We can learn a lot from the study and use of imagery in our teaching.
Mabel Todd’s wonderful book The Thinking Body, first published in 1937 (and still available today), tells us on page 295: Continue reading
Mindfulness in dance teaching
In a busy world it is easy to miss things that are around us or even within us. How much time do we spend noticing what is around us, noticing our breath, noticing how we are teaching?
Creating some space within our teaching to notice things about our teaching. To be mindful of our teaching and the people we teach is what I want to explore very briefly here. Continue reading
