The Cost of Circus Classes:  What are you Paying For?

Most of you know I used to be (still am?) a professional dancer and choreographer.  Before that I was a really high level gymnast.  I grew up in the gym and the studio.  Some of my fondest memories are with the friends I made there.

One of my dancer friends recently sent this to me and said “this absolutely applies to your circus gym, even more than my dance studio…you should share it!”

The original post traveled around the dance circles a while back and I had forgotten all about it until my friend sent it to me.  And she’s right; everything in this little article applies to our students at the circus gym.

Every. Single. Thing.

And because I believe in what this is saying (and I also like to keep my word)…here ya go!

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Original author S.Martin

The other night someone asked me “Why do you pay so much money for your girls to dance?”

Well I have a confession to make, I don’t pay for dance. I grew up in a family of 4 boys and no girls. Up until the day I met my wife if I were asked to go to Swan Lake I would have asked if we were water skiing or fishing.
So if I am not paying for dance what am I paying for?
I pay for those moments when my daughters become so tired they want to quit but don’t.
I pay for those days when my daughters come home from school and are “too tired” to go but go anyway.
I pay for my daughters to learn to be graceful.
I pay for my daughters to learn to take care of their body.
I pay for my daughters to learn to work with others and to be good teammates.
I pay for my daughters to learn to deal with disappointment, when they don’t get that part they hoped for, but still have to work hard at the part that they received.
I pay for my daughters to learn to make and accomplish goals.
I pay for my daughters to learn that it takes hours and hours and hours and hours of hard work and practice to create something beautiful, and that success does not happen overnight.
I pay for the opportunity my daughters have and will have to make life long friendships.
I pay so that my daughters can be on stage instead of in front of a screen…

I could go on but to be short, I don’t pay for dance, I pay for the opportunities that dance provides my daughters to develop attributes that will serve them well throughout their lives and give them the opportunity to bless the lives of others. From what I have seen so far I think it is a great investment!

I am sure that other parents get similar questions. “Why do you pay for competitive baseball?” “Why do you pay for Quarterback training?” “Why do you pay for club soccer?” “Why does your kid swim year round?”…. I just think it is important to realize what we are really paying for.

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So … all that.  Yup.

That’s what we do here at Akrosphere.

Smiles,
Jen MacQueen
Owner of Akrosphere & Watched the movie Amadeus 128 times
Akrosphere Aerial & Circus Arts

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