Teaching Principles


  • The studio classroom must be a safe and secure place where students are encouraged to develop their unique strengths and abilities while challenged to push beyond real or perceived limitations.

  • Technical skill and self-expression alone are not enough to ensure superior artistry. Nuevo faculty teach students that discipline, self-respect, self-confidence, self-awareness, proper classroom etiquette, and intrinsic motivation are paramount to their technical, artistic, social, and psychological development.
  • Students are more likely to reach their full potential when faculty have high expectations for learning and students are provided with consistent feedback on their performance in the studio classroom.

  • Nuevo believes it is critically important to train all of our students to become complete, versatile and well rounded in both the company and commercial environments so that years of hard work, training and sacrifice result in successful, fulfilling professional dance careers or other chosen vocational opportunities.

  • Students improve their ability to dance through carefully guided training, rehearsal, and performance - not competition. Participation in competitive dance can be a valuable opportunity to gain performance experience but only as a means to improving dance skills and artistry, not as an end itself.

  • Superior dancing requires more than just great technique and musicality. Exceptional dancers infuse their work with their own passion, personality, life experience and individual strength, creating self-expressed art that speaks to their audience and their own conscience simultaneously.

  • Nuevo students' success is not measured by placement or trophies awarded at competitive dance events but by the degree to which they are reaching their full potential.