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    • Statement On Arts Education
    • Statement Of Solidarity
  • 2021 Virtual Annual Conference
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    • 2020 Recipients
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      • Dr. Mary Ann Laverty
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Dr. Judy Patterson Wright
Dance Scholar Award Honoree
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Judy Patterson Wright earned her PhD in 1981 in motor learning and motor development from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she focused on the learning process for sequential dance skills and how teachers may facilitate the learning process. She is an accomplished dancer and educator who has taught social dance at the junior high, high school, college, and community levels since 1971. Dr. Wright’s dance experience included tap, jazz, modern, ballet, social, folk, square, country Western, line, and aerobic dancercise. She specializes in ballroom, social, and line dance, in which she has extensive experience as a competitor, author, and instructor. She has taught 18 years at the at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
Richland Community College in Illinois, and the Wright Way Dance Studio, which she co-owns.  In a career spanning 23 years as an acquisitions editor for Human Kinetics, Dr. Wright created the format for the Steps to Success Activity Series (of which her book, Social Dance, is a part) and pioneered over 125 books related to dance and exercise while remaining active in the dance community. Dr. Wright and her husband placed second overall in the UCWDC Silver Advanced Showcase Division at the world’s finals in both 1996 and 1997. They are the World’s 2009 UCWDC Couples Gold Combined Overall Champion. As Editor-in-Chief, she developed guidelines and coordinated the manuscript flow process for the first two volumes of the National Dance Society Journal.

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  • Home
  • About
    • About The Coronavirus
    • Board of Directors
    • Donations
    • Mission
    • Statement On Arts Education
    • Statement Of Solidarity
  • 2021 Virtual Annual Conference
  • Awards
    • 2020 Recipients
      • Ms. Judith Marks Clark
      • Ms. Lacreacia Sanders
      • Ms. Pamella Washburn
      • Ms. Karen Smith
    • 2019 Recipients
      • Dr. Mary Ann Laverty
      • Dr. Lisa O’Dear Lewis
      • Ms. Rebecca Clark
      • Ms. Bonnie Baker Richardson
      • Ms. Teresa Osborn
      • Ms. Cheryl Stafford
      • Ms. Jill Cook
      • Dr. Kelly Hedrick
      • Ms. Caroline Cox
      • Ms. Allison Wilkins
    • 2018 Recipients
      • Ms. Inez Howard
      • Dr. Judy Wright
      • Ms. BJ Santos
      • Ms. Ami Crist
      • The Society
    • 2017 Recipients
      • Dr. Christa A. Davis
      • Dr. Danielle Jay Kirschenbaum
      • Ms. Gayanne Grossman
      • Ms. Keisha Breaker
      • Ms. Marian Simpson
    • 2016 Recipients
  • Board Nominations
  • Councils/Committees
    • Advocacy
    • Dance Education
    • Leadership Development
    • Performing Arts
    • Professional Development
    • Publications
    • Research & Evaluation
    • Student
    • Social Media
    • Wellness
  • Dance Education Standards Framework
  • Events
    • Teaching Dance Virtually
    • NDS Virtual Concert
  • Join
  • Partners
  • Honor Society (Delta Eta Pi)
    • Membership Information
    • Start/Renew A Chapter
    • Fees & Payment Information
  • Programs & Services
    • Choreography Assessment Program
  • Publications
    • NDS Journal
      • Past Journals
    • On The Move Newsletter
  • Store
    • Beginning-Foundational
    • High School
    • Middle School
    • Pre-K - Elementary
    • Teacher Prep