Blog - Acro Dance Teacher's Association

How To Teach The Perfect Aerial

Ask any student: what is the number one trick you want to learn? The answer is always the same – an Aerial! The Aerial is one of the most challenging Acro tricks to learn, despite the fact that it...

How To Become an ADTA Testing Day Examiner And Increase Your Freelance Services

How do you achieve a reasonable amount of progress with your Acro Dancers when you only get them for one or two hours of training per week…? How do you keep track of them all while working at an...

Keeping Your Energy High For Your Students Right Now

Going into week 8 (or 9 or 10!) of your studio closure, couldn’t be a more important time for you to keep your energy high for your dancers. But online classes are VERY draining, and it’s becoming...

How To Help Students With Shoulder Flexibility – At Home!

Do you have students who have tight shoulders and might be struggling with tricks like Bridge Recovers and Back Walkovers? In these tricks, shoulders need to be stacked over wrists - if...

Avoid Student Injuries – Include A Warm-Up And Cool-Down In Your Class

We all want our students to be successful in acro class - and that includes preventing injuries! By ensuring a proper-warm up and cool-down each class, you can avoid injuries in your students, and...

Why Students NEED The Basics Of Acro Dance To Progress To Advanced Tricks

We, as dance teachers, want our students to reach their goals. Our students are keen to be their very best and want to progress as far as they can in their Acro Dance tricks. We would love to have...

How To “Fix” Your Students’ Sore Wrists

How To "Fix" Your Students' Sore Wrists An acrobat’s body is an instrument that can fluidly combine dance with inverted tricks, meaning that acrobats spend much of their training time inverted with their wrists bearing their body weight. ADTA students are taught to...

The Importance of Being Insured

As Acro teachers, we take every possible step to eliminate accidents or injuries in our classes. Practicing new tricks on mats, making sure students are mentally focused, spending time on conditioning/fitness each class, following safe and logical progressions, and...

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