Make Dance Fun
Welcome to Make Dance Fun: The podcast from Confetti on the Dance Floor that’s all about adding fun, festiveness and a little fancy to all the ins and outs of running your dance studio! In each episode, hosts Becca Moore and Dani Rosenberg share tips, tricks and tools that have helped them run a successful business for over 3 decades! They opened their studio Rhythm Dance Center in 1993, and it has always been known for its fun atmosphere. They created Confetti on the Dance Floor in 2016 to inspire dance studios to grow their business by adding more fun to their dance classes! Through their fun products and ideas for dance class in the Confetti Shop, and now this podcast, they’re here to help you Make Dance Fun!
Make Dance Fun
Follow The Yellow Brick Road to our Year-End Show: 7 Months of Planning!
In episode 79, we're taking you behind the scenes of our 7-month journey from our October Year-End Show Retreat all the way through dress rehearsal week! We’re sharing how we plan, what gets done when, and how our team brings it all together to create a magical show experience.
Here’s a month-by-month breakdown of our show planning timeline:
November:
- Met with full staff to recap retreat plans
- Saw Wicked (three times!) for creative inspiration
- Sent show day/time and costume info to families
- Master spreadsheet begins!
December:
- Ordered costumes
- Continued editing music for every class
January:
- Delivered music to staff
- Launched costume lookbooks and theme reveals
- Started choreography and prop planning
- Costumes began arriving and were sorted into garment bags
February:
- Finalized music (voiceovers, sound effects, etc.)
- Continued choreography and prop building
- Began building our personalized show app
- Started early logistics planning with DRT (ticketing partner)
March:
- Choreography goal: complete by month’s end
- Uploaded practice videos for dancers
- Preschool show leaders began working directly with classes
- Started planning backstage team
April:
- Routines finalized and shared with characters
- Set pieces in full creation mode
- Began building show program
- Ordered merch + goody bag items
- Released full show info packet to families
May:
- PURE MADNESS (and lots of magic!)
- Final staff meeting before the big week
- Tickets and merch sales go smoothly
- Hosted our character photo shoot
- Dress rehearsal week! Rehearse, group photo, photo ops, and more
- Finished and printed the program – a fan favorite!
- Created fun new photo ops and custom merch experiences
- Filmed our Welcome Video – 15 years strong!
- Set the finale and wrapped up with final rehearsals
- Packed up every last thing needed for the theater
Final Curveball:
Just days before the show, we were hit with a last-minute venue construction notice! We had to pivot quickly, reconfigure logistics, and communicate new plans—all during a major storm! But with quick thinking and teamwork, everything came together.
Challenges:
- Delays due to waiting on music tied to the Wicked movie
- Balancing a busy comp/convention season with show planning
- Last-minute venue access change
Wins:
- Incredible production value and theme
- More creative and fun merch options
- Our custom app made info easy to access
- Our rockstar team made it all happen!
Every season is a new adventure—and we’re always learning and improving. Stay tuned for our next episode, where we’ll dive into everything that happens at the theater—from load-in to load-out!
Thanks for listening! Have a tip or trick that works for your studio? We’d love to hear it.
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