About Us
How DTCE is Different
Videos + Syllabus
progressive curriculum
age appropriate lesson plans
dance class roadmap
Tried & Tested Methods
Customized Plan available
8000 + Students and counting
training resource
accredited program
step-by-step tutorials
absolutely affordable
studio owners love us!
Teachers
before
this course
An Aspiring Teacher With A Passion For Dance Looking To Share Your Knowledge, But Uncertain And Insecure Where And How To Begin.
Teachers
after
this course
A Confident, Proficient Teacher With An Organized Class Structure Who Is Capable Of Meeting The Needs Of All Students.
Extensive Library Of “How-To” Videos & Lesson Plans
Save Time With Lesson Plans And Increase Dance Studio Enrollment
Grab Your Syllabus Now!specialized dance curriculum
With DTCE’s dance-on-demand courses, you’ll master a variety of genres and unlock your fullest potential! Our specialty categories are industry standouts taught by qualified instructors. You won’t want to miss out on this specialized material:
PRIMARY FOR TOTS SERIES:
- Create a solid foundation with proper, sequential techniques
- Specifically designed for your preschoolers and kindergarteners
- Age-appropriate and progression-based
- Pre-Ballet, Tap, Tumbling, Jazz, Hip Hop, & Zumba Series included!
- “Primary Ballet for Tots Series” is presented in an animated setting
- Motor Skills & Body Awareness for 3-5 year olds
- Tips and Tricks for preschool teachers
ACROBATIC ARTISTRY SERIES:
- Use our building blocks to start a successful program
- Learn to teach & spot using our 3+ hour “How-To” Tutorial/125 skills
- Discover teaching secrets to success: master skills-all levels
- First ever progression-based instructional acro VIDEO+SYLLABUS series
- Over 850 skills, combinations, techniques, and sequences!
- Series includes:11 full-length videos-16+ hours of instruction
- Commitment to safety
- Discover how to structure your acro class-use our “stations system”
Ultimate Burn Series:
- 110+ unique and inspired exercises!
- Customized, unique approach to conditioning & balance
- Powerful conditioning exercises to strengthen your core
- Achieve a lean and sculpted physique
- Dancers can’t get enough “of the fun” in this series
- Quick workout for Kids and Teens
- Strength training for all levels
- Tutorials for mixed-level classes
Extreme Stretch & Flexibility Series:
- Achieve maximum flexibility & range of motion—improve elasticity
- Lengthen muscles - build and tone
- More than 175 visionary and innovative exercises!
- All exercises are adapted to skill level
- Flexibility is an achievable goal for everyone!
- Take your stretching routine to the next level
- Increase your income with flexibility dance classes
- Prevent your body from injury
success dance stories
Our dancers are consistently recognized for having a superior level of technique, poise, and stage presence. Join us now and make your dreams come true. Using the DTCE method many of Kimberly’s former students have accomplishments that include:
- Performing in New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas
- Winning Season Five of the hit TV show, So You Think You Can Dance
- Starring in a TV series (The CW)
- Touring with Broadway (including 42nd Street and West Side Story)
- Teaching at Steps and Broadway Dance Center
- Appearing in La Cage aux Folles
- Performing as back-up dancers for Britney Spears and Beyoncé
- Disney® theme parks industry professionals
- Royal Caribbean® Cruise Line dancers
- Rambert2 Dance Company in London
Welcome to DTCE
Hello and welcome to Dance: The Cutting Edge! We’re so glad you’re here!
First, a little about us. Dance: The Cutting Edge (DTCE) is a culmination of Kimberly Beck Thomson’s decades worth of passion for dancing, choreographing, teaching, and studio ownership combined with her love for children, and watching her students blossom into strong, well-rounded, amazing dancers.
Kimberly’s 25+ years of attending educational workshops and teacher training courses is considered today an “old-school” way of learning. For example, take a class – receive notes – go back to the studio and try to remember what all those written “mumble-jumble” notes meant. Imagine if we had cell phones and we were able to record and shoot videos while taking dance class. How much easier life would have been!
While using her own library of collected materials, she had the foresight to realize that in current times, where the internet is readily available to most people in one way or another, there was a need for all of this standard, written dance-related material to be available as an online dance instructional course with both VIDEOS+SYLLABUS. Using devices — quite literally at your fingertips, you can utilize well-designed, easy-to-follow dance instructional materials anytime!
Kimberly’s expertise in teaching, dancing, choreographing, and all things dance, plus the need for it all to be available online, burgeoned into what is now Dance: The Cutting Edge—the first of its kind, progressive, on-demand instructional dance tutorials. Because Kimberly knows the importance of a solid foundation, she has also included—specifically for the preschoolers and kindergarteners—her Primary for Tots Courses. These dance videos are age-appropriate and progression-based so the littles aren’t missing out on developing proper, sequential techniques.
Not only is her course beneficial for dance educators, students, and hobbyists, it can also be very instrumental for studio owners and educational institutions as well. All of her dance courses include syllabi which can be useful to develop lesson plans or a curriculum for studio owners and teachers alike.
Your subscription with DTCE includes a multi-user access feature for studio owners to share tutorial videos & lesson plans with their teachers. This is a great tool to help students advance to the next level. DTCE is also a useful resource when needing a substitute teacher to “cover” their classes; they will know exactly what the core teacher is teaching and will be able to pick up at just the right spot. This is so important for the students!
The DTCE online course includes 65+ artistically-inspired dance classes—all taught by professional instructors—and 3000+ lessons in over 17 different genres, primary and beginner – advanced! The DTCE Method has proven successful for 8000+ students and counting. These include Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Acrobatics, Hip Hop, Flexibility, Conditioning, Warm Ups, Technique, Modern, Ballroom, Fitness, Choreography, and so much more!
