How to increase mid-year revenue with summer dance camp planning
Dancers don't need wings to fly. But dance studios certainly need a successful dance camp program to stay afloat in the summer season. Even though summer is still a few months away, parents are already starting to look into creative ways to keep their children busy and active once schools close. Summer dance camps rank high on their list of possibilities so it’s a great idea to start planning your dance summer camps [...]
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 [...]
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. See detailed images of foot anatomy. Besides its structure, feet are quite complex when you consider their purpose: support, balance and propulsion. This is all [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last Minute Ideas for Shining During National Dance Week – April 20-28
How are your event preparations for National Dance Celebration Week going? Got a big dance recital planned? Wait – you don’t have any events set up yet? No worries. Even though the week is coming up fast (starts Friday, April 20, 2018), you still have time to make sure your [...]
Dancers and Growth Spurts: Can You Help Them Through Them?
Did you know that dancers often get injuries during growth spurts? There is a shift in a dancer’s flexibility during growth spurts yet training continues as if this hasn’t happened. And the continued, unaltered training can cause overuse that results in injuries such as tendinitis. During growth spurts, a dancer [...]
5 Ways to Make Your Dance Instructors’ Lives Easier
We have great relationships with some very knowledgeable people in our marketplace. You've probably seen instances where we've mentioned Tututix before and you're very likely to see it more as we share some of their valuable dance studio-related content with us. What would your studio be without your awesome dance instructors? [...]
What is Being Sore and What Can You Do About It?
You are constantly using – and probably often overworking – your body. Almost every class or rehearsal has you using it in a new way or pushing yourself especially hard when moves focus on one particular body area: pliés, for example. After one of these sessions, you may say “I’m [...]
