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Apply Now! Open Call for Extended Series Teachers 2025
Philly Dance Share is hosting an open call for extended class series teachers through PDS in the spring and summer 2025. PDS organizers will review submissions and curate two class series each for March/April and May/June. We will select FOUR teachers/series total. If you aren’t chosen for this round, we will keep your proposal on file for class in late 2025 and beyond. If you plan on teaching a class series with collaborators (ex. live musicians or more than one instructor) please note this below.
TIMELINE
Submit your proposals here, between January 5th and January 19th, 2024. PDS Organizers will review applications and begin reaching out to selected teachers beginning February 1, 2025.
HOW TO APPLY
Submit your class proposal here!
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Open Teacher Slots
Anyone can sign up to teach a class on a first come first serve basis. Open teaching slots are generally for our Saturday class times.
Scroll down for more info about how to sign up to teach, how to submit promotional info, and other info you may need!!Teaching slots for January and February 2025 are filled. We will release new teacher sign-ups for March and April 2025 on February 1st, 2025.
Class with Cindy Paul, 2024. Photo by shosh Isaacs.
How to teach a class!
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1. SIGN UP TO TEACH
Signing up to teach class is easy! Just add your name to the digital sign up list, which you can find on Google Docs at the link here.
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2. SUBMIT PROMOTIONAL INFO
After you sign up to teach, make sure you submit info about your class so we can promote it! You can submit that info via the form here.
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3. TIMELINE
Please submit your promo info by the 15th the month BEFORE you are teaching. For example, if you are teaching in February, you should submit your info by January 15th!! We will start promoting your class ASAP after you submit your promo info!
More questions? We’ve got answers!
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No and yes.
No because you can teach any style/genre/form/anti-form of dance that you want to!! You can explode the very notion of a dance class, or you can teach the most traditional ballet class. Up to you!
On the other hand, yes there are parameters; we have a care ethos that includes guidelines for teachers to hold a safe space.
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It's up to you!! Class can be for complete beginners, professional/advanced dancers, or any level in between.
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Yes! All genres are welcome. Tap dancers must have a tap board/mat to lay over the marley floor. At this time, we cannot provide tap mats but teachers and dancers are welcome to bring their own.
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Yes! We/the studio ask that dancers wear white-soled shoes on the studio floor and to bring a pair of shoes that recently haven't been worn outside. Essentially, shoes that won't scuff or dirty the marley are fine!
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Yes! You can teach as often as you want, keeping in mind that there are probably other community members who want to teach as well. We actually encourage folks to teach more than once, in order for students to gain some familiarity with your class!
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All classes are on a sliding scale, participants can pay $10, $15, or $20. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
We (PDS) reimburse ourselves for the space from the money received from participants for class. If a teacher makes $20 or more after we reimburse ourselves for the studio, the teacher would keep 70% and PDS would keep 30%*. If the teacher makes less than $20 after we reimburse ourselves for the studio, the teacher would keep 100% of the profit.
Although this may seem like splitting hairs, or doing a lot of math for a minimal amount of money, it will help keep the program sustainable in the long run.
*You may be wondering, where does the money go that PDS keeps? Right now we're just saving it up, and will use it in the case that not enough is made from class to reimburse for the studio space. In the future if we have extra we may use it for a PDS festival, or something else that we haven't dreamed up yet.
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