This month DA:NCE wants to introduce healthy dance studio Texarkana Dance Academy. They are located in Wake Village, Texas, a suburb of Texarkana, Texas. All of their dance instructors are certified by the Youth Protection Advocates in Dance (YPAD) program. They aspire to imbue their students with a love of dance plus self-confidence, perseverance, discipline and respect for the arts, as well as technical excellence. Texarkana Dance Academy has received the National Dance Foundation’s Kindness, Inclusion, Community Award for the Dallas region. More information about them can be found on their website:
DA:NCE Newsletter – September 2025
I wrote an article about the hypersexualization of children in dance that was released by a scholarly publication in May 2025 from ‘Dignity Magazine’. The title? ‘The Shift in Children’s Dance: From a Culture of Innocence to a Battlefield of Hypersexualization’.
