A Studio Everyone Can Thrive In: Building Inclusive Culture in Practice
Mon, Jun 15
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Inclusive studio culture isn't built in one big moment. It accumulates in the corrections, the casting, the bodies held up as the example, the things that go unsaid. Christopher Charles McDaniel offers this honest & practical mastery session.
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Jun 15, 2026, 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
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About the event
You care about every dancer in your room. You've said it, you believe it & you still have moments where a student visibly shuts down, pulls back, or stops coming altogether, and you're not entirely sure what you did or didn't do.
Most of the time it wasn't one big moment. It was a hundred small ones, like the way a correction landed, who got cast in what, which bodies got held up as the example, what went unsaid when something should have been addressed. Exclusionary culture in a ballet studio rarely announces itself. It accumulates.
This session with Christopher Charles McDaniel is about making the invisible visible. Not as a critique of your intentions, but as a practical look at what inclusive studio culture actually requires on the ground, in real classes, with real students.
Christopher brings decades of experience teaching across some of the most respected institutions in…