Quick Facts And FAQs

Quick Facts

Dance Advantage…

Supports dance teachers, students, and parents.
Helps those pursuing dance or educating dancers make new discoveries and solidify concepts.
Provides supplementary guidance for students refining technique and connects this group to dance resources, dancewear, and other products.
Assists teachers dealing with behavior issues in class, provides tools and info to enhance teaching methods and classes, and locates additional support materials for dance on the web.
Gives recommendations for finding quality dance instruction, encourages ways to help children/teens get the most from their dance experience, and points parents to dance-related gear and gifts.
Spotlights inspiring stories, delves into historical figures in dance, discusses the dance community online, and more.

Dance Advantage is a dance blog for and about dance students, teachers, studio owners, and parents. As a resource for those involved in dance education, articles focus primarily on the study of and training in concert forms like ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance. Dance Advantage provides high quality information that will supplement students’ in-class learning, inspire and support teachers in their work, and prepare parents for their role as advocates and sponsors of their child’s dance experience.

How I hope you’ll use this site:

Dance Educators/Teachers-

Utilize resources to refresh and refine your classes, teaching methods, or your dance school.
Send students or parents to the site as a supplement to your teaching.
Get new ideas for choreography, performances, or just be inspired!

Students-

Use resources to dig deeper and plant seeds in the foundation of your dance education. You are responsible for your own learning experience – this doesn’t mean you should teach yourself, it means that to grow as a dancer you must take an active roll.
Discover new dance products, fun websites and tools, and ways to improve your dancing.
To gain inspiration from what you read in the articles and apply this to your study.

Parents-

Visit the site to educate yourself in the art and study of dance so that you are knowledgeable when talking with your student or their dance teachers.
Discover ways that you can expand and improve your child’s dance experience.
Appreciate and understand the difficult work that your dancer and their teachers undergo in the pursuit of dance.

FAQ’s

Who Is Behind Dance Advantage?

For the most part, Dance Advantage is a one-woman show. With the exception of our gracious columnists who currently contribute 6-12 posts a year and occasional guest spots, everything you see here is the work of me… Nichelle. I manage the site, write a lot of articles, answer a ton of email, brainstorm, compile, organize, and do my best to maintain a “real life” offline.

How Can I Appear on Dance Advantage?

How To Submit A Guest Post
Ways To Promote on Dance Advantage (i.e. Will you write about me or my ______?)
Advertising and Reach

How Do I Keep Up With New Articles?

There are THREE ways to subscribe to the blog. All of them are FREE.
In addition, you can follow online via Twitter and on Facebook.
You may also want to check out YouTube and dance photographers will want to have a look at our Flickr pool to get your work featured on the site.

Can You Help Me With ________?

I like to help. That’s why I’m here. However, you’ll have to exercise some patience with me as I wish to maintain a “real life” and once in a while surface from behind this computer to spend time with my family.

Cool Stuff I Recommend – There’s nothing but awesomeness here and some of these links actually help support the free content I provide. It’s a personal mission to avoid putting products, links, or even words on this blog that I can’t stand behind. It’s not a guarantee but a pinky swear that, in the end, I have your best interests at heart. I’m not interested in selling you on anything you don’t want, rather I’d like to provide you with items and information that are of use to you as you pursue dance.

If you are looking for something in particular, please search for answers on the blog first.

Enter keywords in the search box (navigation bar, on the right, under the ballet slipper) to search for related content on the blog.
If you are looking for content related to a post you’ve already found, click on the post categories found under the title of each article.
Choose categories from the drop-down menus in the navigation bars.