Ethics: Treating Colleagues With Respect

One of the items in the BDT Code of Ethics says, “Colleagues: Instructors shall treat dance colleagues with professionalism and refrain from public defamation.” Let’s take a look at what that means. “Colleagues” are associates. “Dance colleagues” are students, other teachers, dancers, employers, fans, vendors, musicians and sponsors. When put that way, it’s easy to [...]

The Ethical Use of Information

Quite often our belly dance teacher and fellow students are our friends. We dance, change clothes, eat, compete, work, and socialize together. It is easy to lose sight of the responsibility that a teacher has of safeguarding student information when it appears that everything is out in the open anyway. However, that obligation DOES exist! [...]

The BDT Code of Ethics

The Belly Dance Trainer Code of Ethics exists to create written standards designed to deter wrong-doing and promote honest and ethical conduct, professionalism and respect for the Middle Eastern dance as an artform. We recognize the importance of codifying and making known to the profession and general public the ethical principles that guide our work [...]