How many lessons will you take getting ready for your "first dance"?
After the first 2 thirty minute lessons, at lest 5 - 10 - 45 minute lessons. Depending on the couple. Some will look great with 10, some couples may...
I don't know If this has been done before, but what are some performances you have seen that left you impacted. Prefferably good, but I guess...
Danceam & dtas, I couldn't agree more. tasche, I see your point. I remind you that I WAS at a studio like that. That ratio doesn't apply with my...
So now anyone dancing and not getting a bulk discount is getting gouged. You hear that Chris? You're gettin gouged dude!! Rates, environment and...
Well Elizabeth I have many, and I am really trying to work them all out. Thanks for your concern. :P :lol: Can you name a corporation that...
If we are going to discuss it then bring it out. What do you pay on a per lesson basis? Also, how are you the aware of the mindset of EVERY STUDIO...
"Really. Nick and Lena must have been pretty awesome to unseat the Champions. It is much harder to knock someone off the pedistal once they are on...
Yes Chris, but not being independently wealthy and wise to the ways of the dance world as you obviously are, some people like to save 10% (Unless you...
How would daddy have reacted if one of his competitiors was standing in his parking lot trying to entice customers who had responded to his ad in the...
I've mentioned this before, but I think it bears repeating. WHen I left the last studio I was an employee at, ALL of my student stayed at that...
Curious to know who determines the state of mind of the student. The studio or the instructor. My guess is they would have differing opinions...
Wow, what a bummer. That sounds like the studios when I first started in 1985. I haven't worked at a studio like that since 1990. Well You are in a...
Sorry Chris, But at NDCA events the videographers will not, in my experiance, do whole floors, so sorry, no check will be forth coming. If you...
LauraB, I am curious. Are you required to be there even when you are not teaching? If you are, then they are breaking, I believe, federal, if not...
Semantics. A showcase is called different things at different studios. I understand that some call a type of competition a showcase. In my post I was...
The no videoing rule at NDCA comps is to protect the artistic license of the performers. Be they pro, am or pro-am, people pay a lot for their...
I would be really surprised if there are franchises still using that system. There is something in the FTC rulings regarding dance studios that...
A combination of workaholism, I was young and single and liked making money, and making money in other ways than lessons like going to competitions...
In my 19 years, it has been more the first 2 than the latter. Either the lack of sales ability, or the lack of teaching ability, but a large factor...
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