There are many ways to learn about careers in dance school ownership and management. If you’re a skilled dancer, start and manage an informal dance group at your school. Putting on a short dance production for your friends, classmates, and family will give you a basic idea of what it’s like to be a dance school owner or manager.
DanceStudioOwner.com is a fee-based, membership community that offers advice on starting, owning, and growing a successful dance studio business. Although many site features are only available to paid members, a blog (https://www.dancestudioowner.com/public/blog.cfm) providers articles about common issues faced by dance school owners and managers. By reading some of these articles, you’ll get a deeper understanding of the many steps it takes to launch and operate a successful dance school. Here are a few other useful resources:
- Rhee Gold's DanceLife Blog: https://rheegold.com/dancelifeblog
- Dance Education in Practice: https://www.ndeo.org/Learn/Journals/Dance-Education-in-Practice
- Journal of Dance Education: https://www.ndeo.org/Learn/Journals/Journal-of-Dance-Education
Talk with dance school owners and managers about their careers. Perhaps a few will allow you to shadow them as they go about their work.
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