Diane Jarmolow Trains Ballroom Dance Teachers
by Dolly Tavasieff
September 2007
The dancers enrolled in the Ballroom Dance Teachers College teacher training program all share the same dream: to become an instructor and make ballroom dancing their life. Many of these future teachers are fresh out of high school or college and have been dancing all their lives. But there are also dancers who come to the training classes after spending most of their professional lives somewhere else. They've been lawyers, or engineers, or dentists, or rocket scientists. Now they are learning to teach the box step in the Waltz, and loving every minute of it.
World Renowned Ballroom Dance Teachers College Is Now Available To Dance Studios Everywhere
by Dolly Tavasieff
November 2006
For
years, there has been only one formal vocational ballroom dance teacher
training program in the United States: the 
Ballroom Dance Teachers College
(BDTC) in San Francisco, California. Widely regarded as the gold standard
of teacher training within the ballroom industry, the College has turned
out hundreds of fully trained professional instructors who are teaching
and dancing in top studios across the country and around the world. But
there’s been one problem...
American Style Ballroom Dancing In Trinidad
A Meeting of Hearts and Minds through Dance
by Dolly Reynolds Tavasieff
January/February 2005
Traditionally,
American Style ballroom dancing--that smooth, romantic, earthy, creative
style of dancing embraced by both Fred Astaire and the Mambo Kings--has
been confined to the United States. Professional ballroom dancers from Maine
to California have raised the standards of American Style dancing to unprecedented
levels. But for the rest of the world, professional ballroom dancing has
a European face: it is the formal, rigid elegance of...
Become a Ballroom Dance Teacher & Make Your Dreams Come True
by Dolly Reynolds Tavasieff
For two weeks this November (2001), the Metronome Ballroom in San Francisco
will host the first national Professional Ballroom Dance Teachers College.
The Teachers College aims to provide aspiring dance teachers from around
the country with the essential tools they need for a successful career as
a ballroom instructor.
"Learning to Keep the Beat at Metronome Ballroom "
by Octavio Roca
Saturday, April 13, 2002
"Learning
to Keep the Beat at Metronome Ballroom " by Octavio Roca
Should you lead or should you follow? Should you perhaps be flexible enough to do both? These basic questions come with their own beat in San Francisco's Metronome Ballroom, where experts of that swinging sport have been meeting this week to achieve certification in ballroom dance teaching.
BIOGRAPHIC: "Jarmolow Hasn't Had the Last Dance Just Yet"
by Paul Sterman
June 7, 2001
As
a young woman growing up in Brooklyn, Diane Jarmolow's life seemed to be
all mapped out for her.
"I was supposed to be a math teacher, like all the good Jewish girls from New York City were supposed to be," she says with a smile.
But Jarmolow moved to San Francisco and her life took a joyful detour. When she was 27, she ventured out one night to a now-defunct dance club at Taylor and Lombard streets. It was called "Dance Your Ass Off."
And that's exactly what she's been doing ever since.