Staying True & Believing In The New Season

To Set Warm-Up Or Not To Set Warm-Up…That Is The Question

The Parent Trap: Avoiding The Pitfalls In The New Season

Teacher Down...Perspectives From The Injured

What students need vs. what students want

The task of running a dance studio comes with all sorts of rewards year in and year out. However, anyone who got into this business thinking there wouldn't be some difficult decisions along the way probably woke up to an …

Introduction to Improvisation Reading List

Postmodernism

Great Expectations: Rethinking Faculty Job Requirements

Directors directing: Delegating authority in your studio bu…

Introduction to Improvisation 101

Looking Beyond the Horizon in the New Year

Social Media & Marketing…Being a Tech-Savvy Studio Owner

As a new year is upon us, the infiltration of all things relating to social media and the latest technology seems to be evolving quicker than we can finish our last Tweet. As dance studio owners, keeping on top of …

Tools for Teaching Choreography-Composition 101 - PART II

Last month we looked at the basic concepts towards building a choreography-composition curriculum in order to supply students with a strong foundation regarding initial design components. Once they have mastered the concepts including: motivations & clarity, musical component, space travel …

The Task of Faculty Hiring

Who you choose to hire to be part of your studio family says a lot about the tone you set for your business and the kind of training being offered. I’ve seen many directors go through massive teacher turn-over year …

The Structure of A Press Release

What follows is a highly effective set of guidelines that will make your press release writing simple and straightforward. Just follow these simple rules:

The Lesson Within the Lessons

As dance teachers we are clear on our role to teach our students proper technique and performance skills. However, as generations are continually changing, so is the world in which they are growing up in. Perhaps a traditionalist to some …

The Dance Teachers Recommended Summer Reading List!

Summer time is a great time to catch up on all that reading we were eager to get to but were too exhausted to after late nights in the studio! Below, have compiled a list of some of my favorites …