Table of Contents -- Dance Studio Life Magazine -- February 2008


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Dance Studio Life--Features
Common Ground - Dancing Behind the Scenes By Lea Marshall Performing not in your blood? Check out career options that will keep you in dance and offstage
Thinking out Loud By Cheryl Ossola How we Learn - Understanding that humans are hard-wired to search for patterns, to translate the unfamiliar into the familiar, might help teachers accept the need to repeat new material, perhaps more often than they’d like.
Carol Walker - Ambassador for Dance By Rachel Straus Former Walker student, Liz Frankel, a ballet teacher at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, says, “Carol created a magnificent freedom in her studio.”
Dance Studio Life--Focus: Dance of Other Cultures
Dance Studio Life to sponsor the National Dance Week Photography Contest Click here to learn more	Finding the Sacred Forest Getting kids involved in dance becomes a powerful social structure and a rite of passage, as songs, dances, rhythms and stories from West African traditions become life-shaping lessons.
	Dancing on the Edge In Israel, neither life nor dance is for the faint of heart
	Sharing Cultures in the Colorado Valley Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s Folklorico Mexicano program
Having a Fling With Highland Dance Scottish traditions keep dancers jumping in North America
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