September 2016 | Collective Wisdom

Classroom Connection: Cleaning MachineHeading into competition season, I realized I wouldn’t have enough time to fix all the mismatched heads, crooked lines, and sickled feet in my teen jazz routine. What I needed was a way to fast-track the process and rescue my dance. I decided to turn my dancers into a “cleaning machine.”Reality Check: Competition Survival KitsQ.Every year I make a competition survival kit of items my dancers might forget, such as hair bands, hair spray, and