Dance Studios Editing and Proofreading Services

A parent signs up in September for forty pounds a month. By the following June they have paid a registration fee, two exam entries, a costume for each of two routines, tights, shoes, a recital ticket for each grandparent, a photograph package and a DVD — and the total is three times what they budgeted. Nobody deceived them. Nobody told them either.

We edit what dance studios produce — fee schedules and annual cost information, recital and performance communications, costume and uniform requirements, class descriptions and level placement information, term dates and attendance policies, registration and medical forms, competition team commitments, and the letters that manage a studio full of families. Our editors work on documents that a parent budgets from.

The annual cost disclosure is the document that determines whether a studio keeps families for a decade, and its failure is a monthly fee presented as the cost of dancing. The tuition is rarely the largest number in the year. We work through these so the full year is shown as a calendar of what is due and when — tuition, registration, examination entries, costumes, shoes, tights, tickets, photographs — since a parent needs the shape of the year rather than a price per class; so the compulsory items are separated from the optional ones honestly, because a photograph package that everybody buys is optional only in a technical sense and parents notice; so the costume cost is given as a range before the routine is chosen, given that it is announced in March when the child is committed and the parent has no choice; so the ticket policy states how many each family may buy, at what price, and whether the child dances in one act or two; so any competition team is costed separately and completely, with travel, entry fees and the number of weekends, as this is where the real money and the real family strain sit; so the point at which a family can withdraw without further cost is named; so a hardship or payment plan route exists and is stated without requiring anybody to explain themselves; and so nothing is announced later that could have been announced now. Disclosures written this way keep families for years.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including fee schedules, family information and studio documents. We are editors rather than studio owners or dance teachers, and we offer no view on fees, syllabus or teaching. What we can do is show a parent the whole year in September.