Episode 16

BEHIND THE COMBO | EP 16 — with DeShawn Morton 🎙️✨

This conversation is one every dance educator needs to hear 👇🏻

In this episode, I sat down with DeShawn, Dance Educator, Choreographer, Professional Dancer, and Founder & Artistic Director, to talk about cultural awareness in dance, and what it actually looks like to honour a style that wasn't born from your own experience.

Because it's not just about what you teach. It's about how you teach it, why you teach it, and who you're accountable to when you do.

We explored:
✨ What cultural awareness really means in the day-to-day of a dance educators
✨ What the process looks like when you're teaching a style outside your own culture
✨ Those moments in the studio that stop you in your tracks and what they teach you
✨ How to keep the conversation about culture alive without it feeling like a lecture
✨ Where the dance industry still has work to do

This one is for the educators who want to do more than just teach the steps and who want to honour the stories behind the movement.

Because the combo means nothing without the culture it came from 💜

▶️ Watch the replay and if this shifted something for you, drop your reflection in the comments.