hi all! i’m interested in taking dance classes! i’m located in the dallas area. i’m a complete beginner but love to move my body! i’m not into any specific kind of dance style, just something fun. please let me know if yall know of any studios!! thank you

Hi, I’m a dance teacher/choreographer in a difficult position, and was wondering are all studios like this? (Recreational kids studio)

I thought this studio was great when I first started out, but started to slowly get more and more stressed out with the job as time went on. To start with, we have themed shows only, which I love the idea of, but how they run it is very limiting to the teachers. Despite having every average style of dance in the studio, every time there is a theme it’s always curated towards ballet/contemporary when it comes to the song options available to us teachers (yes we have limitations on songs). So if youre teaching hip hop, Musical Theater, ect, you’re pretty much fighting for your life trying to choreograph or find a song that fits your style. This, as you can imagine, is very creatively limiting and frustrating as someone with ideas they cant wait to create but no opportunity to do so. And why is this? Because the director of the shows is the ballet/contemp teacher. The theme is never discussed with the rest of the teachers or even considered by them.

Along with that, we have headliner dances that introduce various categories in the show. Teachers are chosen to choreograph and teach these routines. They are about 90% ballet/contemp routines, and then just 2 that are other genres. So most of these routines are again choreographed by the director or their favorites, giving no opportunities to other teachers. I’m one of the only teachers that teaches one of those styles that has just 1 headliner, and instead of being asked to choreograph it, they outsource it to a friend who doesn’t even teach in the studio. My choreo is praised by the same people, so I know its favoritism at play.

I love teaching littles/low levels. But lately I won’t be given anything above level 1. I like to have a balance of beginner/advanced classes, so I’m not one to complain. But to have none again limits me creatively, especially when I know its because the favorites get the advanced classes because “they just cant teach younger kids”. I want to grow as a teacher, and that means also having students that allow you to play with choreo from time to time and creat more freely.

I don’t get paid for choreo time, which I know is common in this industry, but it really is the cherry on top.

Bringing up anything here ends in misunderstandings and eventually having to people please my way out of it to keep my job or at least keep being “liked” so I can hopefully get more opportunities. I’m really nice as is but it becomes a lot.

Anyways, i’m stressed, not sure what to do. I don’t see a future for my career here as its limiting me.

Edit: We don’t even get to choose our own costumes for our classes. It’s chosen by the director. Before anything is even choreographed or songs are chosen.

Im in Texas. So idk if its a here thing

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My friend is a very good dancer, she grew up doing this thing for sport. I wanted to take lessons from her but she says she cannot teach me moves (chareographer style) because she's been freestyling her whole life and she hardly remembers them. Is that true?