How to Choose a Dance Costume Company
Dance costume plays such a significant role in how your students are received, both by their audience and the judges. You have 100% control of choreography. You and your dance studio staff put in unlimited effort to prepare the students. Still, it’s a bit nerve-wracking that dancewear is one area where you have to trust […]
What Is A Foot Stretcher and Why Do Ballerinas Use Them?
Part of the grace and beauty of ballet is that the performance hides all the blood, sweat, and tears that went into creating that performance. While ballerina foot care is essential, ballet is as competitive as any sport. Dancers who would be ballerinas will look for any advantage they can find. Dancers with flat feet […]
Why Should You Be Using the Store (Point of Sale) Feature in Jackrabbit?
Here is what the office managers at the two Miller Street Dance Academy locations say about it: “We are able to manage all of our inventory- keep track of quantity and sales, The list of tabs that Jackrabbit provides within the store is so useful. We can add descriptions to all of our products, keep […]
Bullying in the Dance World: Dealing With Mean Girls
Sheri from Reflections in Sequins and Satin has shared with us a great article about bullying. This is such a huge problem in our society we are excited to share it with you. A group of girls go out after practice and don’t invite you. When you score a top award for your solo, you […]
Lessons Learned from Dance Competitions
Now that this year’s dance competition season has ended, you may well need a few months away from thinking about competitions to recharge your batteries – especially if the season was particularly hectic. You might even start wondering whether competing is worth all the time and effort. But in your heart, you know it’s totally […]
Foot Care for Dancers
To call human feet complex is an understatement. After all, of the 208 bones in the human body, 52 of those bones are in the feet. Besides their structure, feet are quite complex when you consider their purpose: support, balance, and propulsion. This is all the more true for a dancer, thus making proper foot […]
12 Traits the Elite Dancer Exhibits
Elite dancers rise above others with the quality of their skills and gracefulness on the floor. There are also some traits that establish dancers as elite by exhibiting their manners and consideration for their fellow students and their instructors. These elite dancers have “class.” They are well on the road to embodying lifelong character building […]
12 Good Habits for Your Dancers to Develop
Becoming a dancer means something special. Dancing isn’t a sport, but more of an art form that commands the respect and commitment of those who embody it. Dancers, in turn, earn a unique respect and admiration for their ability to exhibit the grace and skill that it takes to dance. There are good habits that […]
20 Etiquette Basics for Young Dancers
My lifelong relationship with dance helped me to develop a constant interest in the industry – especially in teaching children to dance. From a young age, I took dance, helped to teach classes of younger children as I grew up, studied with some amazing people and now have the privilege of working with technology that […]
Promoting Healthy Body Image in the Studio
A dancer’s positive body image isn’t merely thinking they look good in this season’s costumes. It goes much deeper than that. In fact, their body image impacts almost everything a dancer does in the art and outside of it. Something that important must be defined. So what exactly is body image? How you see or […]