As I am travelling, today’s post will be short. We need to talk about responsibility when we teach. For most dance students, their teacher is the primary role model when it comes to dance (and sometimes life in general). Sadly, a lot of people take this too lightly. You shape your students understanding of technique, […]
It is easier to sell to returning customers than to new ones. Someone who already took one of your classes, visited a show or bought one of your DVDs is much more likely to come back to you again. Given that your work did not suck, of course. But as we know it doesn’t, we […]
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Out of the many possibilities to start a freestyle, I find “micro-structuring” to be one of the easiest and at the same time most versatile. The concept is straightforward and similar to last week’s “Structure through Timing and Topics“. Here is “how to freestyle with micro-structures”. You take a short timeframe (I recommend anything between […]
When you want to kickstart your dance career or any endeavour in the dance industry, you will need some marketing. Marketing is a term that is often misinterpreted and misunderstood. I love the simple definition from Seth Godin’s blog: If you need to persuade someone to take action, you’re doing marketing. Seth Godin It means […]
Starting now, we will take a closer look at our primary work fields of dance. I begin with teaching as it is one that applies to most of us, and I consider it to be the most reliable one. A good teacher should bring the following: A gameplan, being the things you teach, aka the […]
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Today we will answer two more questions before we move into the nitty-gritty and details of our dance business. Question #1 is: “Are you an artisan or an originator”? Question #2 is: “Are you a maker or a supporter”?Most people tend to answer these questions with Originator and Maker. That is what we want to […]
This week we will look into two important questions that help us to make our dance business a thriving one, instead of an exhausting but unsatisfying hustle. Today it is about “The Bigger Picture”. Usually, the bigger picture comes up when somebody tells us to think again, think about the future or don’t think so […]
In the last weeks, we took an in-depth look at our own skillset and calculated the numbers that we need to survive while following our passion, either as a full-time job or side-hustle. Side-hustle makes the whole thing sound more doable, which is great, but it will still be a major hustle. To set us […]
Yesterday I posted an article about how to plan your business when we only talk about the numbers. It was all about mapping out the road in front of you considering the financial side of things. We need to think about these points to estimate how we price our shows, products or dance classes. Mike, […]
The next step in being successful with our dance career is having a game plan. It is about knowing what to do to reach our goals money-wise and also from a satisfaction perspective. Today it is about the numbers. You need to evaluate your situation with brutal honesty and set a goal. From there we […]
Today’s topic is how to make your moves more sophisticated by adding decorations to the body parts that are not having an active role in the movement you are doing. What do I mean by active role? A leg that you are standing on has the job to support your body weight. Therefore you can […]
Another idea that helps you explore new possibilities and transform your freestyles or choreographies is to work with imaginary attributes of the floor. What this means is you style your movement with the goal to create the illusion of dancing on a certain kind of underground. It can be defined through simple adjectives like: sticky […]
Most people who are into dance, flirt with the idea of becoming a professional dancer from time to time. While this is not the right thing for everybody, it is not too hard to pull off for someone who really wants it. With discipline, dedication and honesty about what oneself can do, it is doable, […]
Four Corners is a concept that helps us to break free of a static front and helps us to explore different directions and rotations within a step or a freestyle round. Here is how it works: We envision ourselves standing inside a square or rectangle. When dancing, we try to hit the corners of the […]
Let’s talk about attitude, more specific the attitude people bring to competitions. For the sake of my post I will refer to battle attitude as the character and manners that we display in the battle when interacting with our opponent. Everyone has his own battle attitude, that is defined by who he or she is […]
The 8-ball is a concept to create new patterns of steps based on figure eight. I heard about this idea the first time from b-boy Alieness who taught an 8-ball six step at Circle Prince Croatia. I can not remember the exact year, to be honest. While there are multiple different 8-ball steps (like the […]
In my early days of blogging I was known for sarcastic rants about every topic I disliked. I stopped this because I did not do any good. Today I have a relapse because I need to get something out. There is one thing that gets more and more uncommon in our society which leads to […]
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