Point your toes... PLEASE!

Have you ever heard the phrase, practice makes perfect? Do you get annoyed when someone constantly corrects you for your mistakes? Lately my dance studio has been struggling with some issues, as in not PRACTICING!!! Falling out of pirouette turns, not pointing their toes, forgetting the dances, stopping in the middle of the dance to fix their hair, the list goes on and on! Recently everyone has been let’s just say not working as hard as they should be!

Two weeks ago, we had our first competition of the year and we got exactly five weeks from today until our next competition. Everyone has been slacking off, not giving it their all every time they step into the classroom. At the competition, all of the dances scored really well. Every dance got high golds or platinums! (The highest you could score was platinum then high gold, gold, silver, the lowest a bronze) So our studio did really great! Now with one competition over with and (how many more to go?) all the dancers including some parents are becoming very arrogant (cocky) which is hurting the team. The corrections the judges made we need to take into consideration and fix them. So when the next competition comes we can score all platinums and take home special awards, etc.

Being a teacher, you want to watch your dancers you have taught, to be successful on the stage. It is SO frustrating when you put so much time and effort into the dances you choreographed and all they give you back is…nothing! My sis and I have been teaching dance for a couple of years now, we know by now all the little “tricks” kids will try to pull on you. It just shows pure laziness. We know the ones who practice and who don’t. If you want to succeed at something, whether it may be dance, football, school, etc. you have to go for it and not give up! Practice may not make perfect, nobody is perfect, but practicing can get you pretty far and only make you STRONGER in doing what you love! (That is usually one of the speeches; we use to try to encourage our dancers to give it their all and to practice!)

It may seem a little "crazy" now; hopefully everyone will just get back with it! My dance teacher just told the whole studio she is pregnant and she is in the stage that everything makes her irritated, so I don’t know if that is a major factor! All I know is if I had a penny for every time I said to the dancers, “point your toes” I would be extremely rich!!!