Sparkly Dance Costumes: How to Keep Glitter on Costumes

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Sparkly dance costumes look fantastic on stage! But it’s not so fantastic when you start noticing glitter anywhere and everywhere the costume has been. If your dancer has a particularly sparkly dance costume for recital or competition, how can you keep that glitter where it belongs: on the costume? Check out this quick solution to […]

Should You Keep Used Dance Shoes?

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When a dancer grows out of a pair of dance shoes, it’s time to ask an essential question: “What do we do with these shoes?” Dance parents, let’s talk about the various options for handling these “extra” shoes. Saving Dance Shoes for Younger Siblings If your dancer has a younger sibling or siblings, you can […]

Dance Recital Shoes: Making Sure Your Students Are Prepared

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This year, in order to make sure everyone is fully prepared for recital, we are taking a proactive approach to dance recital shoes and checking shoes in class. That way, we can directly communicate with parents that may need to purchase or borrow a new pair or clean up their current shoes. The details really […]

Dance Recital Prep: It’s The Final Countdown

Dance Recital Prep: It's the Final Countdown

It’s biggest day of the year for your families. If your students are like mine, they are raring to go! And it’s easy to see why when you consider all of the hard work they have put in over the past year preparing for recitals: 30+ weeks of lessons 2-3 minutes of choreography for each […]

Self-Confidence and Dance Costume Choices

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Last year, we featured a post titled “10 Appearance Related Distractions for Competitive Dancers.” While these 10 distractions are all accurate, it is also important to consider the dancers’ self-confidence, self-image, and self-esteem when you are making your costume selections. It is imperative that we costume our dancers in an appropriate way that makes them feel […]

How to Add Rhinestone Designs to Dance Costumes

How to Add Rhinestone Designs to Dance Costumes

Everyone knows how important a great dance costume is. All of the hard work and practice put into routines by dancers deserves to be highlighted in a special and beautiful way, and a costume can do just that! If you’re like any of the studio owners I know, you put in TONS of time and […]

Halloween Decorations for Dance Studios: 5 Easy and Fun Projects

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This Halloween, get yourself and your dancers into the spooky spirit with these costume ideas and Halloween decorations for dance studios! 6 Easy DIY Halloween Costumes for Dance These six costume ideas are great for a dress-up dance class day, and can even let dancers leave the studio and head straight out to trick-or-treat! [wpsm_video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roJXergDnh0[/wpsm_video] […]

What’s Trending for Dance Costumes 2017?

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We’re fresh off our UDMA experience, and can’t get over how many amazing costume options are in style this year. Are you ready to make the move and start choosing recital costumes for next year? Check out this list of trending styles and costume ordering strategies for Dance Costumes 2017.     We heard from […]

10 Appearance-Related Distractions for Competitive Dancers

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Costumes and appearance issues can cause distractions for competitive dancers. Take the time to make your appearance a great part of your performance! 1. Costumes that fit inappropriately. Pulling, tugging, or adjusting a costume during a dance can be very distracting. The costume should fit comfortably and functionally for the entirety of a routine. 2. Costumes that […]

Try It On! Dance Costumes Need to Fit, and Fit Well

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Since our industry is in the midst of its show and performance season, it seems like a good time to reiterate the importance of requiring every students to have their costume and any apparel-based item, and try it on prior to leaving the studio. The benefits include: (1) It allows an opportunity for you to […]

3 Tips for Adding Rhinestones to Costumes

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It is the season of stoning- rhinestones! Use the following tips to expedite the application process for adding rhinestones to dance costumes. Use a tool to pick up your stones! There are some commercially available devices for picking up rhinestones, but parrafin wax is effective…and inexpensive. Canning wax is available at most grocery stores. Cut a block […]

Profitable Recital Costumes Start Now

Profitable Dance Recital Costumes Start Now

No one in our industry would question that producing a recital takes the TOP spot for biggest project of the year. Coming in at a close second, however, is the process of ordering recital costumes. From concept to selection, from measuring to ordering, from try-ons to exchanges and alterations, recital costumes can be almost as […]

Dance Recital Ideas: 7 Ways to Produce a Dance Recital that Pays

Dance Recital Ideas: 7 Tips for a Recital That Pays

Can you imagine the following? A house builder works for nine months with clients to build a beautiful family home. The builder communicates and plans; hiring subcontractors, building walls, insuring the project, financing the materials and making the finishing touches just right. The builder takes draws from the clients for expenses along the way, but […]