Any level dancer can benefit from private coaching!

While in-person coaching is always the best option, tap dancers can receive benefits from virtual coaching as well. Virtual coaching is best suited for tap dancers who have a tap board or other similar hard surface to practice on. Virtual coaching is excellent to work on rudiments, musicality, and timing.

Industry standard is to pay for private instruction or coaching in advance with enough time for the payment to clear. We are understanding of emergencies and a need to cancel at the last minute. Since the time has been reserved, there are no refunds, but a credit is offered for rebooking a new session within 21 days of the cancelled session.

Many dancers who have been competing for several years often engage outside choreographers as a way to expand their movement style and show growth in their technique. According to Dance Spirit magazine, “these professionals introduce new techniques, unique movement, and objective feedback that the dancer may not receive at their home studio”. Performing a piece that is different than their known showmanship style shows growth and development as a dancer. RHYTHM ON THE ROAD choreography will focus on storytelling, performance, musicality and timing and help dancers reach out of their comfort zone while still enabling the dancer to perform at their best and most confident.

Yes - all choreography has a payment schedule with the total being paid in full at the last session. Additional rehearsals can also be booked separately for additional fees which are beneficial to the dancers being confident in their piece and accommodating to budgets.

Setting a piece on dancers that have become comfortable with their home studio choreography can be rewarding for the dancers and staff by providing new challenges from an unbiased perspective. The dancers who are always front and center may not be working as hard as others, so dancers who are enjoying being challenged may be featured instead. It's easier for the staff when an outside choreographer makes casting decisions. Having a choreographer that judges for several different competition companies will bring an insider view of what judges look for when critiquing and scoring a routine. RHYTHM ON THE ROAD brings experience from having grown up through the competition and convention world and values and stresses teamwork and dancing within the group, not as a group of individual solos. Unique music choices are selected and edited so that the judges are hearing something new, not the same song repeatedly, by other groups, throughout the season. Musicality, timing, dancers showing personality and connection are taught while the choreography is being set and rehearsed.

The sooner the better so there is more time to make any adjustments and rehearse as much as possible before the first competition. July is currently our least busy month and an ideal time to start choreography if the studio schedule works with this time frame.