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Byron Dance Dynamics celebrates 20 years: How values and purpose go hand in hand

Byron Dance Dynamics is a premiere school in the Far-North Coast of Australia located in Byron Bay. It provides excellence in dance and performing...

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For the love, or money? Can it be both?

It’s almost the end of another year, and dance studio owners just like me are putting their finishing touches on our end-of-year...

A teacher using the VAL student evaluation program.

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VAL: The value of evaluations in the dance studio

If you have ever considered providing written evaluations to your dance students but felt overwhelmed with the complexity of the task, you...

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Studio Owners: How To Deal With Difficult People!

All businesses have customers. Many have staff and business associates that you will have to work with. Sooner or later you will...

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Studio Owners: Learn your music licence rights from OneMusic

If you run a dance studio, it’s likely you will have subscriptions and memberships galore. Naturally, there are costs in running a...

Dancers performing at Victorian Dance Festival. Photo by Belinda Strodder

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Creative Concert Ideas: How to make the most of your end of year concert

At your concert, or any performance by your studio, you have a captive audience. So why not make the most of their...

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Dance teachers: Expanding your choreographic horizons

In writing this article, I was motivated by the fact that as I travel around the U.S. judging competitions and doing master...

Grosh Backdrops and Drapery's 'Winter Small Town' backdrop.

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Studio owners: Enhance your dance in 2019

Directing and creating performances year after year can be an artistic challenge! Themes or stories must be chosen, music selected, costumes considered....

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The dance floor: Your forgotten dance partner

If you own a dance studio, run a dance school or performance space, then it’s likely that the single biggest financial outlay...

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Are your students overripe bananas or delicious mangoes?

Today, we’re asking a very important question: Are your students overripe bananas or mangoes? Now, before you think I’ve totally lost it, let...

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Studio Owners: Share Your Vision!

Over the years of coaching studio owners and talking to countless others at conferences and seminars, I have heard that one of...

Claire O'Shea. Photo courtesy of O'Shea.

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The Business of Dance: How mindset and systems can be game changers

What is your superpower? If you asked Claire O’Shea, the founder of the Business of Dance (BOD) Podcast, she’d probably say something about...

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A vision, a dream and a strong mind to work: Kelly Aykers Full Time Dance

Kelly Aykers has had a long career as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She has danced for multiple mainstage productions with David...

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Dance floor care: Scuff marks to ‘dye’ for

There are three nasty floor problems that plague studio owners, taking up their time and money, with very little results to show...

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Dance Studio Owner Wellbeing: Dealing with failure

In our Dance Studio Owner Wellbeing series, Dance Informa offers strategies to manage positive wellbeing whilst also navigating the demands of running a dance...

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Dance Studio Owner Wellbeing: Take a ‘Pause’

Over the coming months, Dance Informa will offer some strategies to manage positive wellbeing whilst also navigating the demands of running a dance...