QUICK TIPS TO END THE YEAR RIGHT!

It is amazing, but here we are at the end of another year and as we come to the close of 2014 and look forward to 2015 it is a good moment to reflect back over the past twelve months …

THE KEY TO CREATING A GREAT ENVIRONMENT AT YOUR DANCE STUDIO

The biggest key to a great environment at your studio is you, your staff and faculty. If you create and promote a certain energy, your customers will follow! **The trick is, how can you manage this all important element of …

DANCE TEACHERS, WHAT IS YOUR IN-STUDIO MANAGEMENT STYLE?

As dance teachers, we are often thinking about our choreography, our warm-ups and our across the floor and center combos before the day's classes commence. Over the course of a season we exhaust ourselves trying to be creative and think …

GREAT EXPECTATIONS: RETHINKING DANCE FACULTY JOB REQUIREMEN…

We all want to hire a faculty who has the same mind-set as we do; who shares in the same philosophies and has a vested interest in the development and success of our students. When we take the time to …

THANKFUL FOR THE ART OF DANCE ACTIVITY

As we head into another Thanksgiving and holiday season, I always like to take time to pause with my students and reflect on how lucky we are to do what we do. I try to engage in this conversation in …

BALANCING YOUR PRVATE LIFE INSIDE THE DANCE STUDIO!

Teachers are people too. We're human. We have emotions and experience events that occur in our lives (outside of the studio) which are going to move us in a variety of ways. Sometimes they are happy events, sometimes devastatingly sad …

The Benefits of Cross Training for Your Students

A Season to Give Thanks!

Ballet Lesson Plan: Advanced Adage and Pirouette Centre Work

Dance Quotations for Your Students

How To Kick The Winter Blues

Developing Ways To Bounce Back

MANAGING CHOREOGRAPHY BLOCK

We've all been there….the dreaded time of year when the ideas just aren't flowing and we are facing a deadline of ten+ numbers to be choreographed in a matter of weeks...We sit and barrel though ITUNES trying to find music …

KEEPING COMPANY: DECIDING ON THE RIGHT TIME TO ADVANCE DANC…

It's always a balancing act when, as studio director, you must decide on the advancement of a dancer. They are many factors to consider in this decision. Unfortunately at times, the pressure of a parent and the risk of losing …

DANCE STUDIO OWNERS... HERE'S HOW TO GROW YOUR SCHOOL!

**Calling All Dance Studio Owners... Looking to increase your enrollment? Listen to this great webinar on how to market your dance studio**

MONSTER MASH! BRINGING THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT TO YOUR DANCE S…

Happy Halloween Week Everyone! As this is my absolute favorite time of year, I thought we could all get into the spirit of sharing some fun and festive Halloween ideas to celebrate in your dance studio! Halloween is definitely a …