{"id":5029,"date":"2018-06-04T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2018-06-04T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T10:00:37","slug":"dance-teachers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/fred-astaire-fads-history\/dance-teachers-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Have All the Dance Teachers Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Without dance teachers, there is no dance.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/dance-instructors-job-opening.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/dance-instructors-job-opening-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"284\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5030\" \/><\/a>Our business depends on finding good teachers. This whole industry exists only because we have talented instructors leading our students step-by-step through the art and sport of dance.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The biggest challenge to business growth is finding and keeping good teachers.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So where do we find them?<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Either we bring in competitive dancers who are also great instructors from overseas and attune them to American culture, or we find eager folks here and teach them the intricacies of dancing and teaching dance.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Neither one is a perfect scenario.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I\u2019d love to find American dance teachers who are already skilled in the art of dance and love to teach it. I don\u2019t want to have to compromise or bend to fit people into position. Our teachers earn $25-35 an hour, and they\u2019re busy, having fun with their work and their students. This is a good career for people who truly want to be kept on their toes and challenged with new opportunities every step of the way.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without dance teachers, there is no dance.\u00a0 Our business depends on finding good teachers. This whole industry exists only because we have talented instructors leading our students step-by-step through the art and sport of dance.\u00a0 The biggest challenge to business growth is finding and keeping good teachers.\u00a0 So where do we find them?\u00a0 Either we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29],"tags":[133,108,134],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-growth","category-fred-astaire-fads-history","tag-dance-career","tag-dance-instructors","tag-job-opening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}