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Integrating Choreography-Composition Into Your Curriculum

Every dance teacher has moments of epiphany. For me, it’s when I look at students and recognize their potential to attain a professional dance career, long before they can realize it themselves. As teachers, we have the advantage of insight …

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10 Ways To Improve Your Time Management Skills

Through the years we have had the opportunity to talk to and work with many studio owners from all over the world. One of the biggest issues is time management. We have found that having a daily plan and following …

To Get More Business, Focus On The Customers

A lot of advertising focuses on the company that is trying to get your business and what makes them the best choice. You read about how a company does this or that. How they care about their customers and how …

Dance Educating vs. Dance Training

There has always been much emphasis placed on creative movement within K-12 dance education. However, the concept of integrating formal, more sophisticated improvisation and choreography-composition classes within the private sector has often been overlooked. As someone who just finished her …

Summer Study: Front Desk Training

Summer is perfect for front desk training. It is a good time to set goals and themes for the upcoming season and to get everyone who works at the front desk feeling excited and enthusiastic about their jobs. At the …

The Desire For Increase

Students of all levels and varying degrees of interest have one common goal: The desire to improve! If, at all levels, you can show that they have increased their knowledge, skills level and their overall ability to express themselves, they …

Cash Flow Forecasting

.Cash flow is the life blood of all businesses. The key is to determine how much is coming in versus how much is going out to pay you’re your expenses. If you have been in business for a few years, …

Making Dance History Come To Life

One of the greatest gifts that we, as teachers, can give our students is to show them how to have an open and curious mind forever. Too often students only skim the surface in their classes and never really fully …

9 Tips To Keep You Moving Forward

This just in: Owning and running a dance studio is hard work!

10 ways to improve releves

So many steps in dance involve a releve so it is important to strengthen this movement from an early age to enable dancers to fully execute the steps that involve a releve. With a young dancer it is important that …

Afro Jazz And Its Benifits

African Dance has always had a feeling of excitement and the rhythmic movements and the undercurrent of the hypnotic sound of the drums only intensify that feeling. A few years ago we added Afro Jazz to our curriculum and what …

Your Season End Review Process Starts Now

Nowadays most businesses are looking to cut costs. Some are cutting budgets even though they are having a good year financially. It is a good idea now that the season is over to analyze where your hard earned dollars are …