Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre announces its ongoing Teaching Artist Workshop Series at Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013. For more information and to register, visit here.

The Teaching Artist Workshop Series is an immersive training in global dance traditions focused on fostering cultural exchange, preserving traditional movement forms, and expanding access to dance education. The Teaching Artist Workshop Series is made possible in part through the Mid Atlantic Folk and Traditional Arts – Community Projects program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Teaching Artist Workshop Schedule

Collaborative Dance Composition Toolkit with Amanda Selwyn

Tuesday, August 11 from 12-3 p.m. | Level: All | Price: $75, $50 for professional dancers and teachers

Amanda Selwyn’s Collaborative Dance Toolkit Workshop will focus on two components of dance creation – phrase making and dance structures. First, Selwyn will guide participants through a series of functional exercises for creating focused and dynamic phrase work -- prompting efficient and clear choice making and specificity of space, time, and energy. These solo, partner, and group activities will harvest a collective movement vocabulary. The second half of the workshop will focus on working with the vocabulary to compose cohesive and resonant choreographic structures. We will experiment with spatial design, pattern, repetition, pathways, direction, dynamics, speed, order, and groupings. This workshop is for dancers, choreographers, and teaching artists of all levels interested in expanding and freeing up their creative process.

Teaching for Joy, Play, and Engagement

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 from 3:30-5 p.m. | Level: Pre-professional and professional dancers/teaching artists | Price: $25

Discover the freedom of movement in a welcoming, judgment-free space where curiosity leads the way. This workshop invites participants to reconnect with the joy of dancing through playful exploration, creative expression, and meaningful connection.

Dance & Literacy for Early Learners: Embodying Story, Text, and Meaning Through Movement​

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 from 1-2 p.m., Thursday, September 10, 2026 from 12-1 p.m., & Friday, December 4, 2026 from 1-3 p.m. | Level: Pre-professional and professional dancers/teaching artists | Price: $25

This hands-on workshop equips Teaching Artists with practical tools for scaffolding dynamic, engaging choreography for early learners. Participants will explore developmentally appropriate strategies for generating movement, teaching technical dance skills, building movement vocabulary, strengthening sequencing and memory, and structuring choreography through imagination. Using stories, imagery, characters, environments, sound, rhythm, music, and multi-sensory prompts, participants will experience creative approaches that guide young dancers from exploration to polished performance. Teaching Artists will leave with an adaptable framework for creating original, age-appropriate dances that are imaginative, focused, and artistically rich while fostering confidence, creativity, and technical growth in the early childhood classroom.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Friday, October 2, 2026 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | Level: Pre-professional and professional dancers/teaching artists | Price: $25

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month through an engaging dance workshop that explores the rich diversity of Latin dance traditions. Participants will experience the history, music, and cultural significance of Latin Dance Styles, while learning fundamental movement vocabulary in an inclusive and welcoming environment.

Leveling Up Choreography with Props and Accessories

Thursday, October 8, 2026, 1-3 p.m. | Level: Pre-professional and professional dancers/teaching artists | Price: $25

In this hands-on class geared for dance educators, we will play with compositional tools that integrate props to create dynamic choreography. Throughout the session, we will utilize different types of accessories that can engage students who might lack interest in dance or have limited dance experience or technique. Educators will experiment with different choreographic structures and leave with tangible techniques to create buy-in with their students.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre creates dynamic dance theatre that activates emotional expression. Through an interplay of athletic and articulate motion, they present theatrical and immediate works that engage audiences from start to finish and beckon a response of thought, feeling, and soul.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre/Notes in Motion programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The company is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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