The 2023 Dance Studio Industry Benchmark Report
Each year, Jackrabbit Dance gathers data from dance studios around the world to bring you the annual Dance Studio Industry Benchmark Report. Key metrics like class size, discount percentages, and month-to-month income growth are all integral to the success of your dance studio. But without context, these numbers may leave you with more questions than answers. Do I have the right class size to maximize tuition revenue? Am I offering too many family and [...]
Top Fundraising Ideas for Dance Studios
Traditional fundraisers aren’t what the used to be. In order to give your dancers the best experience for the upcoming year, however, you need to raise money for costumes, travel and the like. The truth is, you (and your students and their parents, for that matter) would rather not resort [...]
How Play and Structure Work Together in Teaching Dance to Tots
Play makes learning more fun especially for your youngest learners. Movement is usually a huge component of play. Children move naturally to do almost everything from achieving mobility to expressing thoughts and feelings. Movement driven by curiosity and necessity soon quite naturally becomes play. It makes sense that these movements [...]
Funny Quotes and Questions from Dance Parents
We all have our moments - I mean, who hasn't looked for their sunglasses for 15 minutes and realized they're on their head? It's what we do. When you work with people on a daily basis, you hear some crazy things. Before you read any farther, we want you to [...]
Setting Boundaries Helps When Managing Parents
The positive energy in your studio is an amazing asset and can help your employees perform better, your students learn better and your studio parents show you more support. This delicate balance can quickly be thrown off by parental negativity. They say one bad apply can spoil the whole bunch. [...]
Are Foot Stretchers Safe?
We found two Dance industry experts who have expressed thoughts on this topic. We’re happy to share the info with you. Please use the links (provided within the post) and read the original information from both. Susan Farrell Ballet Dancer Amy Brandt regularly answers questions in her column “Ask Amy” [...]
How To Choreograph a Dance Solo
Dance solos are challenging to choreograph, remember, and perform. Being the only one on stage is a much different feeling than being with several other people. Here are some things to think about when you're choreographing a solo for yourself or a student. 1. Plan - Before starting choreographing, learn as [...]
How Dance Studios Can Use Skills Feature
Have you heard about Jackrabbit's feature in the Staff Portal - Skill Tracking? If you haven't, check out our blog here for directions on how to use it. If you're wondering how you can use this for your dance studio, keep reading. This feature was built for you to keep [...]
The Joy of Working with Recitals and Costumes in the Fall
With arrival of fall, many of you are already hard at work on planning your recitals for the year. Some of you may have Winter Recitals and are deep in the trenches right now, some of you are working ahead on Spring Recitals, and some of you are doing both. [...]
We’ve Customized a Yeti Just for Dance Folks! And Awarded It to a Free Trial Registrant!
What could be better than a blinged-out Jackrabbit Dance Yeti? Wouldn’t FREE make that Yeti even better? We’re making it happen! We had a Yeti customized with our Jackrabbit Dance bunny and some beautiful blue bling and we need to find a home for it. We’ve decided to give it [...]
Time-Savings Synonymous With Online Registration
Turning Pointe Academy of Dance Has the Stats to Prove Their Time-Savings One of the main reasons for automating anything is time-savings. Whether it’s through software, machinery or appliances, we love putting automation in place to give us time back for things we love to do or need to do. [...]
