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The new season of So You Think You Can Dance starts tonight…in case you didn’t know. What’s really great about this show is that it gets so many people excited about dancing. It seems to get more of a younger segment of people excited. Yes, most of them unrealistic expectations about how talented they are when they walk into your studio. BUT, if you can keep the excitement up for this student, you can change their lives.

Maybe we can learn from the show and take that into the studio and mix it up a bit? For example, it seems what happens on the show is that they see a bunch of bad dancers come out and audition. Then, they cut to a brilliant dancer that seems to light up the room & helps everyone fall in love with dance again. Think about what it’s like for a new student and what you’re doing with them? Are you just getting them into a lesson right away? Yeah, maybe you can’t show them your studio’s best dancer(s) right before each new student lesson, but wouldn’t it help to show the new student an awesome dancer at some point when they’re still new? 

It can’t hurt.

What about using a technique like this for increasing student retention? When a student is in the inevitable trough of their studies, perk their life up with a command performance or two.

I don’t know about you but when I get to feeling a little burned out or un-inspired, I got get inspired. I know enough to do that for myself. But, can you assume your new student does? Dance is your life…not theirs.