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Watch DT+ Teacher Talk: “What Audition Panels Are Looking For”

Watch this hour-long conversation to get the insight you need into providing meaningful dance education for students with disabilities, whether you teach in a K–12 setting, private studio, or community dance program.

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Top 3 takeaways from the speakers

Sandra Stratton-Gonzalez

See the child. Embrace the child. Lift up their responses. Incorporate their movement choices into the work you do with them.
Be flexible. Write a lesson plan and be ready to pivot. Build your toolkit in a way that allows you to pivot constantly.
Provide multiple entry points to everything—every dance step, idea, lesson.

Agnes McConlogue Ferro

Know your village, build your village, and don’t hesitate to ask questions about how to maximize a child’s participation.
Learn the child in front of you. Give children an opportunity to respond in a way that is available to them.
Free yourself up. Don’t be stuck to a certain approach. Know that it’s okay to make changes that empower the children.

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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.