Core Teaching Practices for Dance Education

Emily Enloe, EdD, graduated from the University of South Carolina (USC) at Columbia with her BA degree in dance education in May 2010. During her time as an undergraduate she was awarded a Magellan Scholar award for research in dance and videoconferencing as well as the Richard Durlach Dance Education scholarship. Since graduating she has been the dance educator at Southeast Middle School and C.A. Johnson High School in Columbia, South Carolina, and is currently the dance educator at Oakbrook Middle School in Ladson, South Carolina. In addition, Dr. Enloe was the graduate mentor for the Dancers Connect program housed through the USC dance education program from 2010 through 2014. The Dancers Connect program was an undergraduate practicum experience for dance education undergraduates that provided free dance classes to middle and high school students in the Columbia community. Her work with this program earned Dr. Enloe the 2012 Elsa Posey Graduate Student Scholarship from the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO). In August 2013 she earned her MEd degree in early childhood education from University of South Carolina at Columbia, and she continues to present at workshops and both state and national conferences in addition to teaching. Dr. Enloe is also the past president for both South Carolina Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (SCAHPERD) and South Carolina Dance Association (SCDA). She currently serves as a lecturer in the master’s program for dance education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Enloe graduated with her EdD degree in leadership from Charleston Southern University in May 2022. Her research interests include whole-child development (particularly of adolescents), pedagogy and curriculum, somatics-based dance approaches, and culturally responsive pedagogy.