Dance studio

• 2.2.1 Pros and Cons

• 2.3.1 Pros and Cons

• 3.1 Beginner-/Anfängertanzkurse
• 3.2 dance lessons for advanced
• 3.3 Dancing for amateur dancers
• 3.4 Private Lessons
• 3.5 workshops
• 3.6 Single - dance classes
• 3.7 events
• 3.8 seminars

• 4.1 Classical Dance Schools
• 4.2 Special Dance Schools

Dance school

A dance school is one of the most commercially operated device which is used to convey individual dance students, dance pairs or groups dances, movements and dance figures and connected to the dancing skills and abilities. The focus here is usually the ballroom dancing as well as individual special dances such as Disco Fox, salsa, etc. as a leisure activity, while the dance sports clubs rather cover the field of dance sport.

Learning systems in dance schools

In addition to the classic " dance class " there are a whole lot of other systems to learn dancing. The variety is great, because each dance school tries depending on size, human resources, customer base, customer frequency and penetration to find the right system.

Dance Classes

Dance classes in the proper sense consist of a pre- defined number of sessions specified duration. The course starts for all participants on the same date and has predominantly homogeneous groups in which the participants have a similar level. Mostly a dance class is booked and paid for in advance.

Dance courses are generally offered in hierarchical systems. The price levels build on each other, for example to participate in a dance class Level / Level 3 is the visit of the lower two levels 1 and 2 requirement.

Colloquially usually " dance class " generally used for attending a lesson in a dance school, even if the learning system does not match this pattern.

Pros and Cons

A dance class has clearly defined start and end dates and (usually) predetermined and published teaching content. The budget control is facilitated because it is a " cash transaction " and 160 euros to be paid, for example, for 8 units. Because a dance class a certain period per week claimed must be kept for a few weeks a certain date. Great dance schools offer many courses running in parallel, so that the course attendance per week can be chosen freely. Multiple course attendance per week is possible in many dance schools. A self-paced learning is sometimes difficult, because at the end of the course, it goes with the next higher level on, regardless of whether the dance students ( subjective and objective ) dominated the program of the last course. Furthermore, the dance class may also contain dances that do not suit the dance students.

Club system

Here are the lessons offered usually are completed, a hierarchy is usually limited to a single dance or on a topic. For example, each dance is offered for at different levels for beginners and advanced. The dance students looking out from a timetable suitable or interesting for them units. In contrast to the dance class and the burnishing system ends the customer makes here - often based on a previously released monthly or seasonal plan - selecting what would he learn dances and movements. Payment is usually in the form of a monthly flat ( "flat rate " or "subscription " ) or with pre-paid cards (eg 10 cards).

Pros and Cons

The dance students can set their own priorities and make the timetable free. For more dance lessons can be flexibly adapted to their own calendar and the dance student shall fix its own pace of learning.

Depending on the specific system of education is often one-sided, since usually only a dance is taught per hour. The size of the groups is not predictable in general and can vary greatly. An independent selection of the dances and levels can overwhelm the dance students.

Rolling Systems

A hybrid of the course and club system offer some dance schools in the form of rolling systems. Here the learning content blocks are put together ( for example, " Latino dances " or "Wedding Dances" ). For some time, these dances focus of instruction, when moving to the next block, it is often possible as a beginner to get into the course. Since the classes are continuous, it is usually the decision of the dance student when he wants to switch to the next stage. Payment is in the form of a monthly flat ( "flat rate " or "subscription ").

Pros and Cons

The dance students have a very high degree of flexibility, as they can decide freely usually within a week, which of the dates offered their level they wish to pursue. Dance students find relatively frequent and regular investment opportunities. The pace of learning is very individual, since the dance students decide when they go to the next level. Since the participants often spontaneously decide which events they perceive is the group size is not predictable. The thematic block contains any dances that do not suit one.

Offers

Beginner-/Anfängertanzkurse

To attend are beginner or beginner dance lessons, based on the expected in the curriculum dances, no previous experience necessary. Educators go therefore assumes that the dance students in this dance do not have any experience at the time of commencement of the dance course. Depending on the learning system an entry is sometimes possible in every lesson, which can be equally challenging for dance teachers and dance students.

In the field of ballroom dancing most dance schools start with dances of the world dance program.

Dance classes for advanced students

If a dance student brings along knowledge by teaching completed either beginners or his knowledge has acquired in other ways, it can participate in advanced classes. Within the educational systems of the dance schools of the upstream, lower level content is usually provided.

In ballroom dancing there in the ( ADTV ) Dance Schools widespread the division of the German Dance badge, also called medal courses:

• Bronze
• Silver
• Gold
• Goldstar
• Super Gold Star

The presentation often found, the contents of the courses in ADTV dance schools were identical or were actually required by the association is not true. Each dance school chooses from the vast wealth of dances and characters from those who best fits the dance school and the clientele. Most dance schools is a clear demarcation of the competition dance important to align why they aware of their program so that several hours of weekly "training" as in ballroom dancing is not necessary.

Dancing for amateur dancers

Dance students who regularly take dance lessons and consolidate their knowledge and continue to build want to visit often continuous education. The terms of this are, for example, dance group or hobby club.

Private Lessons

Dance students who have either little time, special requirements or the desire for more privacy, book private lessons. Here paid for the dance student for a specified period (usually 45 or 60 min. ) For a fixed amount, but it is a dance teacher or dance instructor exclusively available.

Workshops

All levels are offered by many dance schools in the form of a workshop. Here, several hours are usually held on a day or courses that take place usually over several weeks together, for example on a weekend.

Single - dance classes

In some dance schools also register without dance partners is possible. There are different offers in which either such as a dance partner is provided with which one dances throughout the dance lessons as a couple or find it pure single- dancing classes held in which all are registered without a partner and in the then common the partners are changed.

Events

Accompanying the dance classes offer many dance schools with regular dance parties also exercise opportunities outside of the course time. The offering is rounded often by seasonal events ( carnival, dance in the May Day, Halloween, etc.), theme parties ( 70, Bad Taste, Cocktail Party, Black & White, etc.) and Gala, Closing or Premiere balls.

Seminars

Many dance schools offer dance instruction in addition to the core business of seminars on various topics:

• Manners
• Table manners
• Rhetoric

Types of dance schools

Dancing lessons

The largest group are the dance schools where one learns in a variety of culturally or regionally important dances in Germany and Austria.

Most traditional dance schools in Germany are run by members of the General German Dance Teachers' Association ( ADTV ) and therefore make their curriculum based on the world dance program from the year 1961. Currently there are about 800 dance schools in the ADTV organized. In addition, many dance schools are organized in the BDT, but beyond that there are also a number of free dance schools.

In Austria most dance schools are connected to the VTÖ, in Switzerland the Swiss Association of Dance.

Special Dance Schools

There are a large number of dance schools that exclusively one (rarely two) dance form devote such as ballet, hip-hop, salsa, Argentine tango, tap dance, flamenco, capoeira, samba, swing or Gogodance. Boogie woogie and rock and roll are therefore taught in Germany mainly in clubs, non-commercial.

Again, dance classes and workshops take place in the curriculum, on the one hand less wide -ranging through specialization, on the other hand but also a competent and can be intense. Often the curriculum is complemented by content that are thematically closely related to the specialty, such as percussion in salsa dance.