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I am kind of confused about music licensing for dance studios and dance companies. Can anyone please explain how this works?

Is it a similar process for both studios and companies? Do most studios not actually license their music? I'm planning on opening a studio in the future and would also like to do public performances.

In my experience, most studios have teachers use streaming services for class and I don't understand the legality of that.

They've been on this situationship for almost 4 years now and their "partner" (28NB) won't commit and keeps stringing them along. For the last 9 months, it's been disappointment after disappointment. I've lost words to tell them and it's gotten to the point that my friend is so hopeless that they refuse to believe that anyone could love them.

I've tried telling them to go to therapy about this as I can no longer help but it just won't improve and I'm starting to feel drained supporting them through this.

Part of me wants to drop the friendship and it seems like this will never improve. I don't want to be rude but I don't see the point of never making an effort to change something you complain and rant about regularly for years on end.

Seeing 0 effort being made to improve their situation, makes me want to give up on them entirely.

Is there something else I can do to support them or get it through their head that this situationship will not lead anywhere? Really don't want to give up on my friend but I'm absolutely drained.

TLDR: My friend is in a situationship that is not going anywhere for the last four years. I'm getting drained on supporting them through all the negative feelings this relationship brings them. Is there a better way to support them or convince them this relationship is dead?

For the life of me I can not remember the name of the move that goes from a Battement devant, envelope into a ballonte derriere but it goes through a retire position and not sur de cou de pied position like a traditional ballonte.

I feel like there is an actual name for this step and not a string of words. I remember doing this in class back in the day but it's lost on me now.

I teach dance and am a personal trainer and I have students who reach out to me for personal training services to help them in dance classes. I have one intermediate student who wants to strength train but is 10 years old. It feels a little too young for me and they should be at least 12 to start weight training but I feel like I'm throwing around arbitrary numbers.

She's definitely focused and works hard in class. Is passionate about improving in any means possible which doesn't always mean more technique classes but the age makes me hesitant.

Most of my clients are adults or older teens. What's the youngest you'd go?

I'm interviewing for a dance teaching position. I show up 10 minutes early and wait 30 minutes for him to come out and get me. He apologized for his tardiness and asked me to tell him about myself.

I start explaining the typical interview "about me" spiel. Where I'm from, my education, my passion for education and dance — "Well you know you'll never be a good teacher coming from such a self centered perspective"

I tripped over the beginning of my next sentence, "I am a helper through and through I hope to encourage students to strive for their goals and empower them to hold true to themselves beyond the dance studio"

"There you go talking about yourself again. Selfish teachers don't teach well. We should be looking at the student's goals. What age groups do you prefer to teach?"

"I prefer students 7 and up. I like to go deeper into concepts and really explain which works better with older students. I can teach toddlers and have the energy for it but I struggle developing curriculum for their level where developing plans for older students is really fun for me."

"Teachers shouldn't doubt their ability to teach an age and if you have a preference it tells me you over complicate everything and little kids are the simplest to teach. If you can't handle little kids, you can't handle a teenager. I've been teaching for decades and used to think like you but as I gained experiences with different ages I realized I can work with all ages. Take for example when you have..."

His words no longer reached my ears. What am I doing here? He obviously doesn't like me do I leave?

He trails back in, "who you are as a teacher doesn't matter. You don't matter. Your credentials don't matter. Can you help. That's what matters. Like I have a teacher who trained her whole life at the Bolshoi and another RAD. Their credentials don't matter. They trained at amazing places and are amazing dancers and they can teach because they're not just dancers, they can help."

Did he just say credentials don't matter while bragging about the credentials of his teachers? What is going on.

"Well beyond dance, I do personal training and many have misconceptions about what that is and think it's just working out. But it is about building a relationship with your client and understanding them as a human being and their goals and motives to help them reach the stepping stones and achieving what they want from their wellness. I find I encapsulate this mindset when it comes to my teaching. It's about how do I help the student achieve their goals."

He proceeds to tell me a story about driving from Idaho to Texas without a map. I was so in and out of what was happening that I could not deduce what he was saying. He proceeded to talk for what felt like 20 minutes about this story and how I need to help students and I shouldn't have preferences and I'm selfish.

I wasn't sure how to just stop this and leave. He then proceeded to ask me if I would cry if I got yelled at and I wish I responded "well I'm really pissed off right now, can you tell?" I said no and can hold my composure.

Proceed to leave and withdraw my application. Like they would care anyways.

I am a dancer, trying to get into personal training. I have been diagnosed with ARFID and have been in intensive care and in treatment for many years.

As I am taking these personal training courses, there is a huge proponent on nutrition and helping clients track and maintain nutrition according to their goal. Well...it's not exactly phrased like that.

However, seeing this material on nutrition from the personal training perspective is making me uncomfortable. It feels very opposite of what I learned in my ED treatment throughout the years.

My plan is to work with dancers, gymnasts, runners, athletes to help increase performance and prevent injury. I understand eating is important to maintain performance especially at that level and can see why, to a certain extent, these courses are recommending tracking certain things.

However, I worry about implementing some of the tracking and skills this course is teaching me with potential future clients. I realize that my clientele could be at a higher risk for EDs and I don't want to teach this method.

My question to you, if you were to enroll in a personal training program, how would you want nutrition to play a role in it? How would you feel supported by a coach in maintaining adequate nutrition to meet your goals?

Would it be a question during intake if you want support in this area? Would it be just marking that you had a meal to inform the coach you've had nutrition before/after movement? Would it be tracking how you feel after movement?

My role as a personal trainer with nutrition would not be ED treatment but supporting fuel for movement. If someone had a dietitian or doctor that gave them guidelines then I would want to help support those. If I noticed something beyond my scope I would want to recommend intervention beyond what I can offer.

I'm also debating getting a medical release on intake from doctor (MD/GP/PCP) approving them for my program but I'm not sure this the best idea but is practiced in the field when working with more vulnerable or currently inactive populations for liability reasons.

I just want to approach this from the start as if many of the people coming to me may have an unhealthy relationship with food, not necessarily an ED, and I do not want to enforce potential bad habits on them or make the relationship with food worse.

TIA

I work as an HR associate in an HR department of 3. I've been ready to quit for months now and I'm struggling to continue on.

Any simple mistake, and the CHRO goes into crisis mode and insults us. There's no use explaining or asking questions when she gets like this because it just makes the reprimand worse.

Yesterday, I missed an email in a long chain and because I didn't respond it turned into "you're just unreliable and it's super concerning you can't follow directions" "You're making the HR department constantly look bad and I have to handle everything" meanwhile she never lets a deadline or looks at the deliverables I turn in.

I was planning on just quitting but I had a meeting with the other person in the HR department today and she is expressing the same feelings of being unsupported, not having clear expectations, feeling like everything I do is wrong, tip toeing around how not to get in trouble for completing the work she told us to focus on.

We've tried so many solutions in the past to increase communication and understanding but the CHRO never even looks or follows through on those for more than a couple of weeks. She also always cancels our full team meetings.

This has been an ongoing issue for the last 2 years. Do I approach the CEO? That's the only person above her. What else can I do?

I have dyscalculia and constantly teachers would give up on me and just say I don't have the genetics to understand music. I am a dance educator and have been trying to teach myself music for years in my adult life after being given up on in childhood.

I recently connected my struggle with music to be related to my dyscalculia. When I try to research this subject, all I'm finding is information on awareness of dyscalculia affecting musical ability and strategies for people with dyslexia in understanding music.

The articles I have found that are specific to teaching strategies for teaching people with dyscalculia music are behind a paywall.

I figured I would reach out to the community and see if anyone else has accommodated strategies, different ways of explaining concepts, tools they use, etc for this issue.

Dyscalculia is not uncommon so I don't know why information on this subject is. Understanding music and being able to teach these in my dance classes is extremely important. It affects me mostly by greatly extending my lesson planning and occasional mess ups in class. I want to do better to help my students.

Do you have any information? Thanks in advance!