Toni Duncan, Dance Faculty

Toni has a BA in Dance and a BS in Marketing from DeSales University and a MA in Dance Education from the University of Northern Colorado. She has been a full time dance faculty member at the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School’s Center for Performing and Fine Arts in West Chester since 2011. She has been thesis editor for the University of Northern Colorado’s MA in Dance Education program since 2017. Toni is an active member of the National Dance Education Organization, participating as a mentor in their teacher mentorship program, serving on several award selection committees, and has presented at the National Conference several times starting in 2017. She has presented original modern dance works at the 2013 and 2015 PA State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, Eastern District Conference. She presented her integrated arts lesson plan What’s Your Angle? Lessons Learned from Mixing Geometry and Dance at the Philadelphia Dance Project’s Dance TAG workshop series in March 2020. Toni is an active member of the PA Chapter of NDEO, (PADEO) She is the PADEO’s National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA) liaison and serves on the social justice committee. She recently completed her 200 Registered Yoga Teacher training hours and looks forward to including yoga to her dance teaching practice. At Feet First, Toni teaches Ballet, Modern, Tap, Pointe and Creative Dance. Toni has been teaching at Feet First since 1999.