What are your likes or dis-likes about Dance School's,lesson's or the industry.?

Question

I am Doing some research this year to further my business,
I am wondering if anyone would like to share there opinions,comments,suggestions and so on about this topic.

Please let me know
Are you a Teacher,Princible,Performer,Student,Choreographer,etc
How long you have danced,
What style you Dance or study.
Are you dancing for fun or looking at it as a career.
And if you like (optional) Where your main studies have been (Dance School,Home,School,Club) etc

Answer 1

I am a ballet student and teacher, and I've found that one of the worst problems I've faced as a student is that I would get pushed to the side and ignored b/c I didn't have special outstanding talent, while I watched my talented friends get so many more opportunities simply because they were better dancers when they first came to the school. As a teacher I've found it can be difficult to keep rowdy kids under control, even when I love them with all my heart. As a student I love getting encouragement and corrections from the teacher, and as a teacher I like knowing that my students are enjoying the class and that they understand what I'm teaching.

Answer 2

"Industry" in application to dance sort of lashes out at me as unappropiate. That's what's wrong with dance industry - it should be less of an industry somehow and more of an art. At least, in the ideal world.

I'm an amateur Ballroom dancer with 5 years of competitive experience.

In Ballroom (US), I see it as a problem that definition of a professional is exremely vague and confusing. Technically, a professional is an individual who charges money to teach ballroom. NB: skills and qualifications are not even mentioned! Some studios hire random people off the street, give them a few months of training and - whala - you got a new ballroom instructor! These studios are often very sticky, they try to sell you packades of lessons and offer "good deals" on them - well how else would they market poor service. But most of what they achieve is pump some money out of the customers while averting a lot of them to ballroom dancing alltogether in the long run. Better studios don't have those kind of teachers. They rent the floor to highly-ranked professionals who charge their fees to students on an hourly basis.