Today is a departure from our regular format. Today I am answering your questions. See how I apply thought work to some of the common issues that are coming up for all of us at this time.

Q1: How are you mitigating injury via Zoom, especially with 12 year olds who don’t know their placement or good vs bad pain as thoroughly yet???

Q2: How can we help our students manage disappointment during this time? For my studio in particular, quarantine started exactly one week before our first competition, so they didn’t get to compete even once. I’m especially struggling with my 11th and 12th graders. They are working hard but I think they are struggling to get past the hump of missing out on some of their final moments of dance with their team.

Q3: Chris do you have any suggestions on how to prepare girls for college? Interview, auditions, how to know what direction of dance etc?

Q4: Why is collecting tuition and creating a profitable and sustaining dance studio so difficult? I notice that one of the biggest complaints from myself and other studio owners is having issues with parents not paying. It seems like they don’t value our service and would rather pay for other things like vacations but claim not to be able to afford to pay for dance class.