Positive Imaging

From One Who Knows

Pointe Work Requirements

The Value of Instilling Confidence

Improving Your Sales Pitch

The Top Ten Marketing Ideas

Marketing is the key to building your business. You know that and so does every other business. The question is how do you cut through all of the clutter to reach your target audience? Below is our top ten list …

To Be At Your Best, Go Away!

Running a small business is hard and demanding work. If you are not careful you can and will burn yourself out. It is also important to not become jaded or pessimistic in your views. This will only hamper the progress …

Assessing Your Students Strengths and Weaknesses

This time of year it is important to assess your students progress so that you can a). Make them look good in any choreography for the year end show and b). Help direct them to the right classes for next …

Introduction to Improvisation 101

How To Make Every Day Your Best Day!

'Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on how we see them' Leo Tolstoy

Focus on Musicality

So often, dancers focus with such concentration on mastering technique that they tend to forget the essence of what dance is and why they are participating in it and consequently the result is mechanical looking dancers who are unable to …

Ten Tips for Costuming Sanity

Costumes can make or break your recital or competition piece. But, does ordering the costumes have to drive you crazy?

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 …

Success Basics Everyone Needs to Know - Part 3: Enthusiasm

What is enthusiasm? For the most part it is one of those things you know when you see it, and other people know when you have it. In other words, it is what people see, and react to about you. …

Assessing Your Students

Many of us we are going in to the second half of our semester and this is a great time to take another look at our lesson plans, make adjustments when needed and incorporate any new ideas that we may …