Studio Switch? Need help!?

Question:I have been going to this dance studio for 8 years now, and I just got an award there and a job offer. There is this other studio waaay across town and it is twice (if not triple) more expensive than the one I am going to now, but I feel like I get learn more from that other studio. My problems are I feel so loyal to this studio I couldn't even think about switching, and my mother isn't so thirlled about the price and place. What should I do?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have been going to this dance studio for 8 years now, and I just got an award there and a job offer. There is this other studio waaay across town and it is twice (if not triple) more expensive than the one I am going to now, but I feel like I get learn more from that other studio. My problems are I feel so loyal to this studio I couldn't even think about switching, and my mother isn't so thirlled about the price and place. What should I do?

Always remember the saying "the grass is always greener on the other side". It is important for you as a dancer to always expand your knowledge and never stop learning. But- loyalty is important too. There is a reason why you have stayed at your studio for eight years and gotten as far as to get an award and receive a job offer. You have clearly learned something where you're at. If you don't change studios, use every resource possible to teach yourself more about dance. You are old enough to take it upon yourself to make yourself stronger.

personally i think if they really want you at the other dance studio they will go out of their way to get you there, stay with your old one for now. you shouldn't just give the new one the cold shoulder though, you should tell them that your old studio has the better conditions and that you want to go to theirs but you dont know if you can. overall try to make them bend to you

btw idk how dance studio's work, competitivly and all im just talking business

Yea, i say stay at your one your i now. They may not let you in for the job at the other studio since they wouldn't really know you. I just say stick with your studio and stay with all your friends you know.

Im going through a similar problem. I want to stay loyal to my current studio and teachers but I know it isnt going to help my dancing long term. My dance partner and I made the decision yesterday that we will leave, we are VERY sad to leave our close friends and teachers at the studio who we have been very close to. It is emotionally hard to leave but I think you should, in a dancers career there needs to be progess, if you dont feel like you are making enough progress at your current studio than if you were at this other studio then I think you should leave. Even though its sad and hard to begin with it gets easier trust me :o)

i think it depends on what you want to do with your dancing. if the other more expensive studio offers better training towards a professional career, and that's what you want, then you should at least take some classes there. you don't have to leave your current studio completely, just cut back on the time there, and pick up a couple classes at the other one. does the job offer at your current studio include some kind of pay, or at least comp classes? if so, then that will help reduce your expenses there so you might be able to afford the more expensive classes. also, is the management of your current studio aware of the other place? if the other place is more geared toward a pro career, then your current studio should encourage you to take those classes also. kind of like if you lived near new york city, your present dance studio wouldn't mind if you went into the city for classes in addtion to your regular ones.

Stick with what you have, and when time and finances allow, you can pop in at the other place on occasion. Why torture yourself on "what-if's" when you have an obvious and solid alternative?