Promoting Anti-Racist Practices within Dance Programs - a 3 Part Series on NDEO's Behind the Curtain Blog NDEO’s Guest Blog Series features posts written by our members about their experience...

Dance 2050 A Think Tank for Dance in Education

The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) is a non-profit, membership organization dedicated to advancing dance education centered in the arts for people of all backgrounds. NDEO provides dance artists, educators, and administrators of all backgrounds a network of resources and support, a base for advocacy and research, and access to professional development opportunities that focus on the importance of dance in the human experience.

The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) is a non-profit, membership organization dedicated to advancing dance education centered in the arts for people of all backgrounds. NDEO provides dance artists, educators, and administrators of all backgrounds a network of resources and support, a base for advocacy and research, and access to professional development opportunities that focus on the importance of dance in the human experience.

As a professional dancer, I’ve always been grounded, but the earth is rumbling, and I am uncharacteristically unsteady. I’m not alone in this feeling. Shifting cultural values are rattling our sense of moral integrity. Unfathomable words (calling a congresswoman and the people “garbage”), acts of cr...

July 4th, 2025, is one year short of 250 years of this great experiment called democracy, and it is being tested like no other time. The abuses of power by Donald Trump and his administration are accelerating each day, from starting a war in Iran

The brawny machismo of yesteryear has returned with full vengeance as politicians and billionaires have been flexing, preening and most ironically, fist-pumping to YMCA, a song noted for decades as a gay anthem. Even Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta,

As a professional contemporary dancer, I’m a master of falling so it is ironic that the love of my life died of complications from falling. As a dancer, I find it thrilling to launch my body into space. It is a complex act in which you monitor your

Nov. 7 is voting day. It’s not the big show, it’s an off-off-Broadway run not worth paying attention to, just a couple of southern governorships and abortion access in Ohio. However, those in Mississippi might want to take a look because Brandon…

Dancing publicly and unapologetically as a Black queer man is resistance. On July 29, 2023, O’Shea Sibley, a 28-year-old Black, gay, professional dancer, was fatally stabbed in his heart while he and his friends were voguing to Beyoncé outside of a…

I watch in horror as the spotlight highlights the unraveling of Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House. His spine is disintegrating, and his flesh is being pulled in multiple directions. I know the feeling – as a professional dance artist, I lost…

Roxane D’Orleans Juste, former dancer with the Limon Company for 30 years, now in her sixtieth decade. Photograph by Natalie Fiol Age is in the news these days. After a nasty fall, 81-year-old Mitch McConnell will soon return to a United States…

Today, for the first time in history, four women lead the House and Senate Appropriations Committees—one of the most powerful committees on the Hill. Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) are the chairperson and ranking member in…

On Jan. 6, 2021, I realized how much I loved America. Not one to participate in flag waving, I never considered myself a “patriot,” but an exponential sadness invaded my body that day and has never quite left. As a dancer and embodied practitioner, I…

NDEO’s Guest Blog Series features posts written by our members about their experiences in the fields of dance and dance education. We continue this series with a post by Jan Erkert, who was Head and Professor in the Department of Dance at University…

NDEO’s Guest Blog Series features posts written by our members about their experiences in the fields of dance and dance education. We continue this series with a post by Jan Erkert, who was Head and Professor in the Department of Dance at University…

NDEO’s Guest Blog Series features posts written by our members about their experiences in the fields of dance and dance education. We continue this series with a post by Jan Erkert, who was Head and Professor in the Department of Dance at University…

During the heat of the summer of 2022, a video of the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, dancing caused a flurry of criticism ranging from inappropriate behavior as a mother to unbecoming actions as a leader. Mikael Jungner, a member of her own…

Stepping down from power is not in the playbook of manly-man leadership, which has no chapter called retreat, de-escalate or let go. It appears certain that chest pumping Putin won’t step down, having already set in motion constitutional amendments,…

The image is permanently burned into our retinas – a knee on the neck with hands nonchalantly tucked into pockets. The trial surrounding George Floyd’s murder has exposed the residue of lingering pain, which has settled into the bodies of the live…