In a previous post, I stated I would post an article on the dance studio which offers free dance lessons. My apologies, I should have already done this.
As I was straightening the house last December, I picked up the local free newspaper which is delivered to our home every Tuesday. My father always reads it, but I read it only occasionally. As I was busy, I had intended to just put the paper in the recycle bin. For some strange reason, I set down the things in my hand and opened the paper directly to an article entitled, Every Child Can Dance as Yet Praise Offers Free Classes in the New Year.
Free dance classes? Really? Oh this is wonderful! Kyla loves to dance! She dances to everything, even the music her stuffed animals play!
In the newspaper article, Racheal (the studio owner) states, “I don’t want families to put activities on the back burner because they can’t afford them,...[classes are] 100 percent free,” Frazier said. “And it will be permanently unless the Lord says differently.” (Read the full story here: https://www.101highlandlakes.com/news/yet-praise-dance-company-in-kingsland-offers-free-dance-classes. This is exactly how it was worded in the print version I came across.)
I told my daughter as soon as she returned home from work. “What's the catch?” she asked. I have to admit, I also thought a 'catch' would be lurking.
I asked my daughter, “What's the harm in calling and asking?” She called them...and before she was off the phone with them, she had made an appointment to admit Kyla the next week.
The “catch” is that parents are required to help the studio fund the lessons by purchasing dance attire through the studio (which we would likely be required to do at most places), selling tickets to recitals, selling ad space in the studio's newsletter, and participate in other fund-raisers as they come.
We can do that.
Here is a link to the Yet Praise Dance Company website, http://www.yetpraisedancecompany.com/free-classes-only, and to their YouTube site where snippets of classes are located, as well as some of the performances: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmVU0AvgnBzWAw3G35VZrsQ.
I am touched by the leap of faith Racheal is taking with such an innovative business model; one that places services (giving) before payment (receiving). Oh, how I think the world would be such a better place if that was the norm, rather than the exception.
But wait, maybe that is becoming the norm...
Steemit places the giving (voting) before receiving (payout). Hmmm..
Oh, and ¡VIVA! Many of you don't know of ¡VIVA! yet. ¡VIVA! thrives as a 'giving' business model. (More info here: http://bitcoin42.com/vivacoin/)
Free dance lessons and a 'giving before receiving' business model may be a great leap of faith for Rachael, but people like Rachael and the developers of Steemit and ¡VIVA! may just happen to have pioneered the very first of the businesses of the future.
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