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Last Call to Submit Your 2025 Dance Teacher Award Nominations

Nominations for the 2025 Dance Teacher Awards are only open for the next three weeks (until Monday, March 31, 2025), so be sure to get your submissions in via this form now!

Every year, we recognize excellence in teaching by honoring outstanding dance educators for their contributions to the field.

We’re currently accepting nominations for the 2025 Dance Teacher Awards, and are looking for dance educators who:

Have a unique or outsized impact on their students and/or community
Strive to bring out the best in their students as dancers and people
Have a thoughtful and forward-thinking approach to pedagogy
Are dedicated to their own continued learning
Have a body-positive teaching style
Prioritize dancers’ mental and physical health and safety
Are committed to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion inside and outside the studio

All dance educators are eligible to receive the Dance Teacher Award, including those working in private studios, K–12 schools, conservatories, higher education institutions, and more. Nominations will be reviewed holistically based on their alignment with the above criteria.

To access the full list of past Dance Teacher Awardees, click here.

Remember to submit your nominations via this form by Monday, March 31, 2025. You can also get in touch with me via email at rrodrigues@dancemedia.com if you have further questions.

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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.