Dance Today Teacher of the Year 2013

Posted on March 20, 2013

If you haven’t nominated your favourite dance teacher for our new Teacher of the Year competition, there is still plenty of time! Get in touch by post, email dancetoday@dance-today.co.uk, or contact us through Twitter or via our Facebook page by June 7, telling us about your teacher and why you’d love to see them win. The best reader nomination will win a free year’s subscription to Dance Today.

We’ll announce the shortlisted candidates and overall winner – the teacher with the most reader votes – in our August issue. The Teacher of the Year will win a specially created Dance Today trophy – a cover of the magazine starring them, a feature about them and their studio in the magazine, and a year’s free subscription to Dance Today and sister magazine, Dancing Times.

We also have a year’s free subscription to DSI-TV, which offers up-to-the-minute film coverage from the competition floor, Masterclass apps with former world champions and numerous other features and interviews; a pair of tickets to a West End dance show (details to be confirmed) and a selection of CDs from Maestro Direct, as well as unprecedented bragging rights!

Illustration: Simon Oliver

Nicola Rayner

Nicola Rayner was editor of Dance Today from 2010 to 2015. She has written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent and Time Out Buenos Aires, where she cut her teeth as a dance journalist working on the tango section. Today she continues to dance everything from ballroom to breakdance, with varying degrees of success. Her debut novel, The Girl Before You, was published last year in paperback, ebook and audiobook.