Dance Studio V. Public High School

Bianca Jamerson Adv. Comp, Per. 2 9/11/12 Dance Studio v.

Public High School Dancing Millions of people in the world love to dance but for the most part it’s where they are training which determines their success. Generally when someone wants to dance they think to take classes at a studio. Studio training is usually considered the best way to learn to dance but it is not the only way. Learning to dance at a public high school is an extremely convenient option as well. There are several similarities and differences between learning at a studio and at school, both having their pros and cons.

The best part about dancing at a public high school is that it is free. Students can take dance classes as their physical education or join a school dance team, both involving little or no money. When most people take dance at school they’ve never really danced before but since they get to experience it with their peers and people at school they’re familiar with, it makes it more comfortable. Due to not all students having experience with dance, dance teachers are able to be very hands on and take their time teaching students the basics.

Normally the teachers teach at a very beginner level so students can learn the basic technique before they go on in dancing.

Some schools offer an intermediate class for their dance team and other dancers with experience so that they don’t have to start from the beginning. Since the dance team is still a part of the school, fortunately their rehearsal times rarely go past 6:00 pm. With dancing at a public school not all aspects are always positive. There is a lack of funding for many dance programs at schools.

Considering this, dance programs are without new costumes, a nice facility to dance in, and no money for performances and competitions.

Seeing that the funding is not very apparent for public school dance departments, the dance teachers and coaches tend to be unprofessional. They think that since they are working at a school they can behave in ways they usually wouldn’t be able to get away with like arriving late and carelessly running the dance program. Not only are the teachers unprofessional but the students as well.

Since a lot of the students are just taking dance to get physical education credit they don’t take dance seriously and they are often lazy and disrespectful. Dancing in an actual dance studio is very professional. The teachers and instructors in studios usually have several years of training and professional dancing under their belts.

As a result of the professional environment and teachers, classes at dance studios are to be paid for and they can get quite expensive if a dancer is taking a variety of classes at once.

Studios offer numerous amounts of classes all day for different age groups with different dancing styles. In dance studios the dancers generally start at a very young age and learn the basics of technique as young children. The training in a studio is intensely vigorous and dancers are expected to know what is asked of them immediately because they learned most of their technique while they were young. Unfortunately, in dance studios the classes can be anytime from 8:00am to even 10:00pm and it usually and it takes up a lot of a dancer’s time.

However, dancers in a studio usually don’t mind how late they’ll be in a rehearsal.

They have an exceptionally strong work ethic because they’re working to get to the top. These dancers often receive more opportunities to perform and dance with professionals because of the connections they are making in the studio. There are plenty of similarities and differences between dancers training received at school or in a professional studio. Whether the dancing is done at school or a studio, dance styles always stay the same.

Ballet is always ballet regardless of where it is taught, the same basic technique is used in dancing everywhere.

In classes at a studio dancers are quite often grouped by their ages and in high school dancers are dancing with their classmates in their grade as well. In any situation where people are being taught dance, there are almost always opportunities to perform. At a high school it may be in a small low budget dance concert while at a studio it would be a giant well put together recital but both include ways to perform.

As far as differences between the two are concerned, they are almost endless. Dancing in a school is more ideal for a working class family because everything is free and studio dancing is outrageously expensive over time.

The quality of treatment dancer receives at school is much different that in a studio mostly because of the money put into it. The students in studios have a bigger majority of dancers that take their training very seriously while at schools hard working dancers are not the majority.