Dance Educator Resumé

A Look Into My Classroom

Jenna’s priorities as a dance educator include:

•Creating a safe learning environment by providing constructive feedback for dancers, and avoiding negative or harmful delivery of corrections.

•Modeling and supporting a foundation for positive body image and confidence in one’s own skin.

•Creating more equitable and diverse artistic spaces by integrating lessons on dance history, especially when teaching styles that have evolved from historically marginalized cultures. 

•Encouraging growth by creating challenges and setting clear, attainable goals for dancers.

•Emphasizing a well rounded understanding of the art form by integrating all aspects of performance in lesson plans, including safe and effective technique and alignment, emotional execution, musicality, strength and flexibility, dynamic choices, relationship building, spacial awareness, class etiquette, self care, and more.