ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of teaching dance at the college and university level is the opportunity to mentor student choreographers. In their role as mentors, dance teachers continually renew the art of dance by helping tomorrow’s dance artists to discover their own creative sensibilities. Moreover, mentoring students is an especially important part of a teacher’s job because it is in making dances that students have the opportunity — indeed, the responsibility — to draw on and integrate all of the knowledge and insight they have gained through their academic and studio-based dance courses, and their life experiences. Being guided by a sensitive and skilled mentor enriches the student’s experience both educationally and artistically.
