Indiegogo: Phusia and Dance Teacher Conferences

OK, so I know and you know that dance teachers are super busy during the year.  We all are, but in particular dance teachers are focused on teaching, rehearsing, competing and performing leaving no room for anything new to enter into the studio.  This is why it's important for Phusia to get to DanceLife Teacher Conference, Dance Teacher Web Conference and The Dance Teacher Summit this summer.  I've been to two before, different summers but really in order for the word to get out, it needs to make an impression and I need to hit all three at once.   The goal is to inspire, educate and recruit Phusia instructors to help me bring women back to dance.  I've put this project up on Indiegogo (a crowd funding platform) to raise money to send Phusia.   I had approached Kickstarter (another crowd funding platform) but they denied my request stating it was a "fund my life" project.  My appeal to them was short and sweet simply stating Phusia is a part of my life, like any dance company is the part of a director's life and I'm not asking to "fund it".   These conferences are no different than the performances dance companies pitch on Kickstarter to gain an audience and support, mine happens to be over 13 days.  It landed on deaf ears, but that's ok.  I had already moved on and over to Indiegogo and had $640 in contributions before receiving Kickstarter's second denial.

A quick class format update, I've gone back to my original class format from a two years ago and the ladies are bringing their friends, sweating it up and dancing their butts off.  Do I miss choreographing the more intricate combinations, a little.  But really what is the most important thing and always has been - get women to dance again and my original format is how to do this.   Pride and ego are powerful and a little ugly - luckily I could recognize this and wise up.  To those taking my class, thanks for your patience.  To those who used to take my class and have come back, thank you!   For those of you, who are still discovering Phusia, welcome aboard.  You are in for a fun ride!  Thanks for joining me.