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Educator Moves: Shifts in the Dance Education Landscape From Fall 2024

From director shifts to faculty appointments and beyond, here are the major dance educator moves you should know about from fall 2024.

Kelli David-Low has been appointed dance education director at Deeply Rooted Dance Theater.

Amy Marshall has been named associate director of education at the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation.

April Ball, Phillip Broomhead, and Emily Nicolaou have joined the full-time faculty of University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ School of Dance.

Hansuke Yamamoto has joined the faculty of San Francisco Ballet School.

Eric Tamm has joined the faculty of the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

Mary Carbonara, Brett Conway, Katie Florez, Skye Montante, Stacey Printz, and Erin Yen have joined the faculty of ODC School.

ZooNation Youth Company’s 2025 cohort will be led by artistic director Kate Prince and associate artistic director Dannielle “Rhimes” Lecointe.

Executive director Kelly Shearer and artistic director Anna Kenrick have been appointed co-chief executive officers of YDance (Scottish Youth Dance).

English National Ballet executive director Patrick Harrison will step down from that post to become CEO of The Royal Ballet School at the end of this year.

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Tapas Das: Tapas Das, a young entrepreneur of our times started TWIST N TURNS in 2005. A person who is kind, generous, creative and down to earth wanted to start his own one of a kind dance academy. According to him, Dance is a language of movements that involves space, time and the human body. He was born and grew up in Kolkata, the cultural hub of India. Being appreciated in the field of dance all his life, he is extremely talented. He has been dancing since the age of four. Once he finished his high school, he learned jazz/modern and contemporary dance. His horizons were broadened even more when he started dancing Bollywood with Beat Busters for 4 years, which then was the most upcoming dance crew in Kolkata. After that exposure, he studied how to be a dance teacher, which later started helping him impart his knowledge about dance. Thus, in 2005, with the help of family and friends, he started TWIST N TURNS. Starting with a mere number of 40 students, today TWIST N TURNS currently has over 500 students. Over the time Tapas has taught and performed all over the country. He has performed in cities such as Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Jhansi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Udaipur etc. He has been an active participant in the Salsa India Congress in the cities of Bangalore and Bombay, and he has also visited various International Salsa Congresses in Europe, namely in Berlin ,Singapore, Hong Kong,Dubai. He is been also trained recently at Broadway Dance Center (New York), Alvin Alley (New York) and Steps on Broadway (New York). He is not only a dancer or teacher. He is a successful choreographer and has coordinated various shows without difficulty in our country. His leadership skills are exceptional, thus he is where he stands today. His aim in life would be to become a dance educator. He wants to share his tremendous knowledge in the right way to the right people. He is also, simultaneously running other brands like Zumba Kolkata, Bollywood Studio ArtistWala.com and India International Dance Institute.