ABOUT US
DANCE CONSULTANTS
HELPING YOU SOLVE ALL OF YOUR DANCE DILEMMASDance Consultants is a newly formed small business dedicated to helping dance teachers, studio owners and aspiring teachers to reach their full potential and experience fulfillment in their dance career choices. Formerly known as The Dance Network, Dance Consultants has been offering services such as studio strategies, curriculum writing and planning, course development, and teacher coaching to various people in the dance profession.
After successfully selling her dance studio in 1997, Denise Walsh, managing director of Dance Consultants, developed, an informal network of dance teachers, studio owners and aspiring teachers to help each other with the various challenges they found in their dance career choices. Today, Dance Consultants provides services to dozens of dance organizations and professionals within a 10 mile radius of the main office in Blue Bell, PA. Dance Consultants also offers services nationwide through phone, e-mail and seminars and will customize all services to meet individual preferences.
Dance Consultants is committed to helping all dance professionals achieve more satisfaction and prosperity in their careers.
ABOUT DENISE
Denise Walsh attended The University of the Arts (formerly known as Philadelphia College of Performing Arts) for 2 years before transferring to Temple University where she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance.
Her business credentials include owning and operating Unique Fitness Concepts Inc. where she created and implemented the concept of bringing quality fitness to homes, offices and schools. In 1984 she purchased
Le Roux School of Dance and went on to successfully operate this school. After 12 years, she made a life decision to spend more time with her children and husband. She successfully sold Le Roux School of Dance to one of her students who has been successful at the school for 11 years.During the ownership of both companies, Denise inspired teachers to reach their full and limitless potential and mentored young dancers who had the goal of becoming teachers.
Both businesses required an extreme amount of effort in marketing and public relations. She was responsible for building Unique Fitness concepts from 0 students to 150 at more than 15 locations with 8 instructors. She tripled her enrollment at Le Roux School of Dance during her first 2 years in business. The average length of enrollment for a dancer at Le Roux was 9 years; however many stayed from the age of 3 until they went off to college.
Much of the credit for the continued enrollment of these students was attributed to the hard work and dedication of her faculty and office staff who always did their best to make sure that each student felt to be a special part of the school family. Another important element in keeping students for such a long time was the creation and implementation of a dance curriculum. This dance curriculum insured each student received age appropriate techniques and the ability to progress to higher levels effectively with confidence and challenge.
In the years following the sale of the dance studio, she helped her husband open his own business and once again was involved in the administrative process of buying and selling a business. She also kept her feet moving while choreographing for elementary school musicals and teaching at various dance studios. She has also written yet another curriculum called Step In Time that she teaches in her home town at The Goddard School and wrote several dance programs for Sports Clubs for Kids, a national organization, featuring Mini Gymmies, Stompin Rhythms, CheerTastics and Dance T.V. Denise now knows first hand that being the employee is quite different than being the owner.
