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TEACHING CREATIVITY

Letting your students experiment with choreography is crucial to helping them develop as artists.

Among the many things you have to teach young students-proper technique, discipline, performance etiquette-how to choreograph is probably not high on the list. Yet students can reap marvelous benefits from learning the basics of dancemaking.

"If we want them to be more than just technicians-if we have expectations of them as performing artists-choreography is a way for them to find out who they are through exploratory exercises and challenges," says Diane Jacobowitz of Dancewave in Brooklyn, New York. "This is for the teacher who can see the bigger picture." (For more on Dancewave, turn to ...

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