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Letter From the Editor: A Conversation on Cleaning Choreography and More!

If there’s one thing that’s on any dance teacher’s mind as we approach recital and competition season, it’s choreography—pristine, perfectly synced choreography.

In fact, cleaning choreography is the type of skill that seems like it should be intuitive but is actually pretty elusive. Do you simply run the routine over and over again or just tidy up a portion of it that isn’t working? And is there a go-to method to tidy things up or is it just a matter of improvising?

In our next DT+ Teacher Talk, “Choreographing Squeaky-Clean Dance Team Routines,” on Thursday, April 10, at 12 pm EDT, we’ll be speaking with TRIBE 99 founder and CEO Carsen Rowe, and J’aime Griffith, a professor at Grambling State University and the director of the school’s dance line, the Orchesis Dance Company, to discover the sure-fire ways you can make dance choreography compelling, innovative, and clean. Join us—you’ll also be able to ask all your burning questions in real time. Click here to save your spot now!

Later this month, we’re also highlighting real-life stories of dance-studio owners recovering from the devastating Eaton fires in Los Angeles, California, and bringing you expert advice on guiding your students in successful partnerships, whether you’re teaching beginning partner classes or coaching dancers through more complicated lifts and choreography. Plus, flamenco dancer Irene Rodríguez discusses why she treats her dance students like musicians-in-training.

With excitement,
Reanne Rodrigues
rrodrigues@dancemedia.com

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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.