At Elite Dance Academy, honesty and loyalty are more than words; they’re values we embody every day to create a dance community rooted in trust and growth. As the owner, I’m dedicated to fostering an environment where every dancer and family feels valued, and where our shared values elevate both individual and team success. Honesty with Our Students and Families …
The Value of Compassion: Building Stronger Connections at Elite Dance Academy
At Elite Dance Academy, we are passionate about educating and inspiring children to become confident, happy, and strong individuals through dance. Central to this mission is fostering compassion—not just between our dancers and their teachers, but also among the dancers themselves. Compassion helps create an environment where everyone can thrive, and it’s something we intentionally cultivate at Elite. However, we …
WHAT I WISH I KNEW AT 25 THAT I KNOW NOW AT 52….
When I first dreamed of opening my dance studio, I was coming off of a high from dancing professionally. Dance brought me so much joy and I attributed that to competing and performing. I LOVED everything about dance and I thought opening a dance studio and helping children to feel that same joy would be amazing. When I first opened …
Commitment Leads The Way
Over 18 years ago, I sat in my Grandmother’s house with a purple spiral notebook jotting down every idea I had about creating what is now called Elite Dance Academy. I wrote down all of my dreams and shared them with my Dad for him to help me iron out those dreams down to the smallest detail. As I look …
Communication is Key and Other Lessons From a Coffee Chat
Last month, we hosted a “Meet the Leaders” coffee chat for our families to come and learn a little more about Elite. We wanted to extend our reach to parents directly to really get a pulse on what they need to know and how they are feeling about how we are doing as a business serving them and their children. …
Integrity Matters
It seems a crime. There are no licensing requirements for people who want to open and operate a dance studio. I find it odd that in an industry where the main focus is working with children that there aren’t more regulations. We, at Elite take our jobs very seriously knowing that we are helping families to raise great human beings, …
5 Benefits of Dance
Five Benefits of Dance At Elite Dance Academy, we believe that learning how to dance should be an encouraging and positive experience for children at any age! And while the dance steps themselves are an important element to every class, the benefits of dance go far beyond pliés and pirouettes. Here are our five favorite benefits of dance: 1) …
Respect First
It Takes A Village I take what we do at Elite very seriously. I think our staff has a huge responsibility in working with children to help them navigate life, not just the dance rooms that they are in with us. I think that the world is currently full of a lot of “not so great” examples in mentorship in …
Quality Counts
At the beginning of a dance season, I always like to open the curtain on the reasoning behind some of the things we do inside of our dance rooms that parents may or may not understand. This stems from years of people in our lobbies asking things like, “Why are they sitting down?” “Why are they stretching for so long?” …