Exploring Dance Forms and Styles: A Guide to Concert, World, Social, and Historical Dance

About Helene ScheffMarty SpragueSusan McGreevy-Nichols

Helene Scheff RDE is a conference planner for the National Dance Education Organization. She has taught all forms and styles of dance for about 50 years in all sectors and venues including K-12 higher education and the private sector. She has coauthored several other dance books and conducted presentations at local regional national and international conferences and seminars. Ms. Scheff is a member of the American Alliance for Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance. In her leisure time she enjoys viewing dance and theater and spending time with her family including her 10 grandchildren. Susan McGreevy-Nichols BS is a national consultant in arts education programming and curriculum. She was the founder and director of a nationally known middle school dance program in Providence Rhode Island and taught in public schools for 28 years before moving on to higher education. She is also a guest teaching artist at the elementary level in the Los AngelesUnifiedSchool District. Ms. McGreevy-Nichols who was the National Dance Teacher of the Year in 1995 serves as president of the National Dance Education Organization. She is a past president of the National Dance Association and a senior partner at the GriffinCenter for Inspired Instruction. Ms. McGreevy-Nichols is also the coauthor of many books including Building Dances Building More DancesExperiencing Dance and Dance About Anything. In her spare time she likes to travel read and spend time with friends. Marty Sprague MA teaches at the Providence Academy of International Studies in Providence Rhode Island. She has taught and performed dance (concert world social and historical) for more than 50 years including various dance forms and styles at the elementary middle secondary and university levels. A coauthor of several dance books she has presented and consulted at the local regional national and international levels. Ms. Sprague has been a member of numerous dance companies and was artistic director of her own dance company. She codesigned graduate-level coursework in dance certification and has been a choreographer. In 2005 the National Dance Education Organization honored her with the K-12 Dance Educator of the Year award. In her leisure time she enjoys taking dance classes spending time with God and her family and reading.