About Us
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 35+ 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 and 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, but it can also be very instrumental for studio owners and educational institutions as well. All of her dance courses include a syllabus, which can be useful to develop lesson plans or a curriculum for studio owners and teachers alike.
DTCE’s resources are 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 95+ accredited, artistically inspired courses—all taught by professional instructors—across 16+ genres from Primary and Beginner through Advanced. With over 4,000 tutorial videos, 900 Basic Syllabus, and 200+ SMART Syllabus, the DTCE Method has proven successful for 8,000+ students and trusted by 2,500+ teachers. Genres include Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Acrobatics, Hip Hop, Flexibility, Conditioning, Warm-Ups, Technique, Dance Team, Hip Hop, Choreography, and more!
How DTCE is Different
ONLINE TEACHER-TRAINING CURRICULUM
900+ PROGRESSIVE BASIC SYLLABUS
CLEAR TEACHING PATHS PER LEVEL
CERTIFIED CURRICULUM EXPERTS
16+ GENRES, PRESCHOOL–ADVANCED
200+ Smart syllabus (click-and-play)
4,000+ TUTORIAL VIDEOS AVAILABLE
TESTED IN REAL STUDIOS
PRINTABLE CLASS RESOURCES
ALL-IN-ONE DANCE CURRICULUM
À LA CARTE OPTIONS AVAILABLE
PROVEN SYSTEM FOR STUDENT GROWTH
DTCE
Mission
At Dance: The Cutting Edge, our mission is to provide studio owners and teachers with affordable training resources to streamline their dance curriculum. We offer a range of comprehensive online video-based teacher training resources including tutorial videos, lesson plans, syllabus and skill charts, aimed at ensuring that all students progress properly with a solid foundation and good technique.
Our goal is to create a progressive educational platform that prevents students from skipping levels, ensuring that they receive a proper dance education. By doing so, we aim to empower dance educators and program directors to deliver high-quality dance instruction and enable students to achieve their full potential in dance.
DTCE
Vision
Dance: The Cutting Edge aims to set the standard for online digital dance education worldwide. With a culmination of years of research, we do this by providing the world’s most comprehensive online database of video-based dance teacher training resources.
All dance educators will have an unsurpassed opportunity to discover unlimited teacher resources and them during their classes via teacher training tutorial videos, syllabi, and lesson plans. DTCE provides teachers access to affordable professional development, curriculum, and continuing education.
Our team has come together with a common goal: To provide you with an unparalleled experience as you navigate this new frontier of dance education.
The DTCE Method: Accredited Online Courses for Dance Teachers
Choose your format—SMART Syllabus À La Carte or Tutorial Video + Basic Syllabus Bundles—all done-for-you resources for dance teachers.
SMART Syllabus À La CarteTutorial Video + Basic Syllabus BundlesWho Is It For?
If you consider yourself any one of these, then DTCE is for you!
- DTCE is designed for dance teachers, studio owners, coaches, academic institutions, dance team coaches, directors, and educators.
- Dance teachers can use DTCE to create seamless learning experiences and access innovative teaching methods and cutting-edge material.
- The innovative dance program was developed by Kimberly Beck Thomson, a renowned former master instructor and certified dance specialist with 35+ years of experience.
- The program’s user-friendly and state-of-the-art interface enhances the learning experience, making it easy for dance professionals to access and navigate the vast library of 4000+ teacher training tutorial videos, video-based lesson plans, syllabus, tutorials, and skill charts, ultimately providing essential tools and comprehensive training courses to support and develop their skills and knowledge in the field of dance.
- DTCE offers all aspects of a dance class, including warm-up, technique, progressions to combos, with a focus on establishing a solid foundation from pre-school to advanced levels.
- DTCE helps studio owners streamline operations, build a reputable brand, and attract more clients to increase revenue.
- Coaches, academic institutions, dance team coaches, directors, and educators can leverage DTCE’s comprehensive online video-based resources to enhance their teaching methods and improve the overall dance education experience for their students.
How can it help?
12 ways DTCE can help you!
- If you are looking to take your business to the next level, DTCE can help you create a game plan and offer a step-by-step blueprint for building and growing a successful business.
- To succeed in the dance teaching industry, an established comprehensive video-based teacher training system, curriculum, syllabus, and lesson plans are essential. DTCE can help you create a solid foundation with a set progressive done-for-you syllabus lesson plans, and curriculum.
- Developed by an experienced dance specialist with 35+ years of expertise, the program features a comprehensive, user-friendly curriculum. It offers a vast library of 4000+ teacher training tutorial videos, allowing for extensive learning opportunities.
- The program includes video-based lesson plans, syllabus, tutorials, and skill charts to enhance dance education. Furthermore, it provides essential tools and resources specifically designed for dance professionals. With its comprehensive training courses, the program aims to empower dancers with the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the dance industry.
- DTCE is not your competition, but your partner in success. With their tailored courses for dance teachers, you have the necessary tools and resources to enforce a progressive curriculum, ensure consistency among teachers, and guarantee the success of every student by avoiding level-skipping.
- When you need to improve or learn new dance teaching techniques and methods, DTCE provides a supportive and helpful environment for you to do so.
- If you own a studio, managing substitute teachers and ensuring your students’ learning isn’t affected when the original teacher is absent can be stressful. DTCE makes it easy to manage staff and classes and offers a seamless transition for subs.
- Owning a dance studio can be overwhelming, even when you want to take a vacation. DTCE ensures that your business will thrive even when you’re not there by utilizing a fail-safe business model.
- To make your dance studio successful, having a solid plan for creating a progressive curriculum, syllabus, teacher training resources, and management tools are crucial. DTCE can help you with all of these aspects.
- Continual professional development in all facets of your business is necessary to thrive as a studio owner. DTCE can assist you in investing in yourself and your business.
- By using DTCE’s easy-to-follow, proven, and powerful lessons and resources, you can make your dance classes more dynamic and exciting and build and grow a powerful brand. It can also help you increase your revenue and attract more clients.
- As a studio owner, you want to be on top of your game at all times. It’s vital that you invest in continued professional development within all facets of your business.
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