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 or tight ligaments can find themselves at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to mastering en pointe work and choreography. [...]
Top 20 Inspirational Dance Quotes
Everyone hits rough patches from time to time. Hearing inspirational words can be a moving and effective way to get refocused and re-motivated. In other cases, the words of iconic and legendary dancers and choreographers can broaden our horizons, spark our creativity, or just remind us that everyone has their [...]
4 Features Every Dance Studio Software Should Include
Every dance studio owner can reduce costs and increase revenue when using well-designed dance studio management software. If you’re unsure whether your business will see a return on expenditures that justifies the cost of your monthly subscription, check out this detailed discussion of the hidden costs of not using software [...]
Free Dance Studio Software – Bargain or Burden?
Every new dance studio owner is looking for ways to keep operating costs down. The plethora of free online software can seem like a blessing. Using free tools to put together your own dance management studio software system helps you avoid one more expense. But does it? Or are you [...]
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 [...]
9 Tips for a Successful Dance Recital
Dance recitals are hectic. The whole enterprise is the classic swan act — all graceful glissés on stage, while everyone is dashing to get ready backstage. There are countless moving parts to preparing for a dance recital (wrangling your dancers and their parents to name just one). To help you [...]
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? [...]
6 Questions That Will Help You Make Your Recital Amazing
We know your recital is planned. Your theme was chosen and your venue booked long ago. Sizes were taken and costumes ordered long before the drop-dead deadlines. Music is chosen, dances choreographed, and classes know them flat. Recital fees have long-been explained, charged, and many have been collected. You think [...]
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 [...]
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