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Your Invitation to Join The Radiant Dance Teacher Email List
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Thank You Gifts and Bonuses for Becoming a Radiant Dance Teacher
These bonuses will be sent to you in an email upon your submission of the form above.
Return to Radiance Workshop
This 2 hour workshop is designed for dance teachers to assess and then adjust their teaching methods and strategies so you are no longer heading down the road to burn-out.
Top 10 PDF
After watching the workshop, you can use this Top 10 Strategies PDF as an ongoing reference sheet you can print out and refer to whenever you feel you need a quick refresh.
Intro to Imagery Mini-Course
Creating effective imagery is its own art form. This mini-course introduces basic concepts in the creation process, as well as how to assess effectiveness. Using the foundational concepts of development of dynamic posture and dynamic turn-out, these strategies are explored within this workshop.
Welcome to The Radiant Dance Teacher
Teaching Strategies & Tips
Content to help you immediately in your teaching with a wide range of student ages.
Resources to Support You
There are many great resources to be shared and you'll want to check them all out!
Member Spotlights & Features
Sharing who you are and getting to know others is designed to build your support structure.
The Teaching Strategies & Tips will all be built upon the foundations the 3 pillars of The Radiant Dance Teacher.
- Integrated
- Embodied
- Expressive
A goal for most (probably safe to say "all") dance teachers is for our dancers to be expressive. But without being Embodied, you cannot be Expressive.
And without being Integrated (Mind-Body AND within the brain itself), you cannot be Embodied.
With that in mind, much of the strategies are about the creation of the Learning Environment so that students can be Integrated.
Effective use of Imagery is great for Integration, and therefore a great place to start.
And, while you care about your students, SELF-CARE is the foundation you need for all your great teaching to happen!
Artistic Director of The Radiant Dance Teacher: Mariah-Jane Thies
Mariah-Jane Thies is a registered RAD ballet teacher, TEDx speaker, and award-winning dance educator with certifications in Evans Laban Modern technique, Brain Gym, and Rhythmic Movement Training. She has presented at numerous global conferences, including IADMS, NDEO, and Royal Academy of Dance. Under The Radiant Dance Teacher, Mariah-Jane leads a popular Facebook Group and a YouTube channel with content for both dance teachers and dancers. Recently, she became a hand-picked content provider for The Library Aesthetic Dance Media. A published author and innovation advocate, she won the 2024 RAD Innovation in Dance Teacher Award for her groundbreaking teaching methods.
Current Offerings for Dance Teachers
With the recent award for Innovation, you may be asking "What is so Innovative?"
Both the Content and the Delivery!
It is NOT innovative to be available for in person guest teaching (that IS available!) but it is to offer certain topics online, including a studio programme.
New content is always being created. Finding out what fits your needs best for the next step on your journey can be a bit tricky to do.
In a future email, you will be guided through the various categories of created content so you can discover if any of them will serve your current needs.
You will also receive a survey so you can share what you are most interested in at this time.
A Great Resource to Share!
The Library Aesthetic Dance Media
Mariah-Jane is requested content creator for this new dance platform. It is like "Netflix" for dancers, helping both dancers and dance teachers to find the latest and trusted information to elevate their training.
Instead of swimming through the depths of the Youtube trying to find trusted information. And, especially for keen dancers, it can be truly dangerous to go to Youtube and follow incorrect advice.
There is a free trial you can sign up for!
