Gayle Kassing, Ph.D.

Gayle Kassing performed professionally in ballet, modern dance, and musical theater. She has a BFA in ballet and theater, an MA in modern dance, a PhD in dance and related arts from Texas Woman's University, and an MAT in K-12 education with media. She has taught in universities and colleges in Nebraska, Illinois, and Florida, public schools, dance studios, and regional ballet companies. She is the lead author of Teaching Beginning Ballet Technique and Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum...See more

Gayle Kassing performed professionally in ballet, modern dance, and musical theater. She has a BFA in ballet and theater, an MA in modern dance, a PhD in dance and related arts from Texas Woman's University, and an MAT in K-12 education with media. She has taught in universities and colleges in Nebraska, Illinois, and Florida, public schools, dance studios, and regional ballet companies. She is the lead author of Teaching Beginning Ballet Technique and Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design and sole author of I nteractive Beginning Ballet CD, History of Dance: An Integrated Arts Approach, Human Kinetics' Interactive Dance Series: Beginning Ballet , and Discovering Dance . For the past 15 years, Kassing has been an acquisitions editor in the HPERD division at Human Kinetics. She presents at state, national, and international conferences and works as a dance consultant providing dance professional development workshops for K-12 and university dance educators. In 2010, she was the recipient of the National Dance Association Scholar/Artist, and in 2016 she was designated as the 2016-2017 National Dance Society Scholar. Kassing is a member of the Nebraskans for the Arts. See less