Develop your unique style of dancing and facilitating, even if you feel rusty.
Dance Again Teacher Training
Dance Again Teacher Training.
For your personal, creative, and business growth. Create space for expressive, accessible dance for adults beyond just a workout class.
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Create much-needed space for expressive, accessible dance for adults beyond just a workout class.
And start up a creative side business with it.
All with your existing dance experience, however rusty you might feel.
Why take the training?
Build a meaningful and authentic dance class that helps you stay active, creative, and paid to teach others.
Jess will help you develop your unique style of dancing and facilitating - even if you feel totally rusty or not experienced enough - and turn it into an offering you can share and sell.
Not required: getting an MFA or keeping up with the latest TikTok trends - unless you want to ;)
Turn your lived movement story into an offering you can share and sell.
Build a class that helps adults stay active, creative, and expressive.
Bring business support into the creative process without losing your voice.
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The missing piece for adults wanting to dance again
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Training video
The missing piece for adults wanting to dance again.
Watch Jess explain why this training exists and how it helps you build a meaningful, accessible dance class from your own movement story.
Student transformation
This training has helped me beyond dance teacher training. It has helped me reclaim my confidence and who I am as a person, and to stand in my truth. It's shown me I can incorporate being myself into my dance practice and the offerings I'll provide for my students.
Step by step
Our dance teacher training will guide you step by step to:
Build the class only you could lead.
01
Develop your unique style of dancing and teaching
Even if you feel rusty, not experienced enough, or even if you've trained for many years, you can refresh and redefine your style to be the most YOU and the most effective.
02
Lead dance classes you can share with others
Learn the Dance Again Method for turning any dance style into a structured dance class that is effective and magnetic.
03
Make dance an active part of your life and career
In a way that fuels your creativity rather than draining it.
04
Make money and turn it into a side gig
Taught from someone who has been making a self-employed living in NYC for over 10 years.
05
Join a community of supportive movement people
So that you don't have to feel alone in your process anymore.
Hear from our dance teacher training instructors + students.
Personal growthCreative methodTeaching confidenceBusiness support
Who it's for
Who it's for:
This might be you if...
Creative movers who don't fit the typical mold
For people who want to hone in on their unique style and experience and turn it into something they can teach or share with others.
This might be you if...
Existing movement teachers
For fitness, pilates, yoga, and movement teachers who want to refresh content, add dance, boost confidence, and widen their network.
This might be you if...
People who trained but didn't quite launch
Maybe the style didn't feel genuine, or the training didn't include the business, marketing, and messaging support you needed.
This might be you if...
Rusty dancers renewing confidence
For dancers who don't necessarily want to teach yet, but want dance to become a bigger, more consistent, and more fulfilling part of life.
Founder + DirectorTraining since 2019Creative + business support
Your guide
Hi, I'm Jess, your guide through this process.
As the founder and director of Dance Again, Jess has been running classes and programs consistently since 2015. She is also a TEDx speaker, the author of Dance With This Book, a creative coach, copywriter, former holistic health coach, and dancer/performing artist.
Since 2015TEDx speakerAuthor of Dance With This BookCoaching since 200785+ businesses supported60+ creative paths supportedTraining led since 2019
Jess story
How I got here.
This training incorporates everything Jess has learned from both the artistic and business side of starting a dance-based business and movement.
Chapter 01
The creative pull
Jess was a holistic health coach with a thriving practice and thought that was her calling, until something in her soul told her otherwise.
Chapter 02
From bedroom videos to community
Homemade dance videos alone in her room grew into a career and community over the last 10+ years.
Chapter 03
Stages, showcases, and Dance-a-Day
From tiny Brooklyn workshops to TEDx stages, performances, Lincoln Center screenings, student showcases, the Dance-a-Day in May challenge, a book, and a blog maintained since 2012, Jess has kept making dance more accessible.
Chapter 04
Coaching and business experience
Since 2007, she has coached in women's health, creativity, copywriting, and business, supporting entrepreneurs, organizations, and individuals into clearer creative paths.
Chapter 05
Why this training exists
Dance Again programs and videos have helped hundreds of people reclaim their sense of self through dance. Jess created the training so others could build dance offerings from their own movement stories.
What's new
The training keeps evolving.
I've been leading the training since 2019, and with each cohort I've updated and improved the content. Newer cohorts may include opportunities to become officially certified as a Dance Again instructor and join the team.
2019
Dance Again Teacher Training began.
Each cohort
The content has been updated and improved through real participant feedback.
Current
Waitlist is open for the next cohort announcement.
Future
Certification and team pathway details should be confirmed before launch.
More voices
More from teacher training students.
People come to the training for dance. They often leave with a clearer relationship to confidence, teaching, and their creative work.
As a non-trained dancer, I've been hesitant to move forward on my own, but I'm so glad that I reached out to Jess! She helped me redefine dance for myself to create a movement program that's inclusive to all movers - trained or not!
It was a gift to learn how to take my ideas and manifest them into a program that is aligned with my beliefs as a dance educator.
Registration will open soon.
Lead dance in a way only you can.
Tell us you are interested and we will keep you posted when the next Dance Again Teacher Training opens.