Online Dance Classes for Teachers and Studios

Studio training happens in the room, with a teacher watching. Online classes do something different: they keep dancers moving when the studio is closed, open up styles your timetable cannot fit, and give teachers somewhere to keep learning. Here is how teachers actually use a library like DancePlug, and what a membership does and does not cover.

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Where online classes fit a studio year

No online library replaces a teacher in the room. Corrections, spacing, partnering, the feel of a class moving together: those live in the studio. What a library does well is cover the gaps around your timetable, when the doors are shut or a dancer wants more than one class a week gives them.

The gaps are predictable. Summer and holidays, a week of closures, a dancer sidelined by a sprain who can still work upper body and musicality, a competition team that needs a style you do not teach. Those are the moments where assigning a tutorial keeps momentum instead of losing it.

Teachers use it for themselves too. Watching how another professional breaks down a phrase is cheap professional development compared with travelling to a convention, and you can do it after class with a coffee.

At a glance

Library: 900+ classes across 10 styles, plus health and fitness
Levels: basic, beginner, intermediate and advanced
Biggest styles: hip-hop, jazz, contemporary, jazz funk, lyrical
Free to check: every class has a public preview
Membership: individual, with a 7-day free trial

Six moments teachers reach for it

Summer and holidays

Keep dancers in shape between terms with a short assigned warm-up and one combo a week.

Closures and snow days

A cancelled class does not have to be a lost week when there is something to work on at home.

Styles you do not teach

Give a jazz dancer some house grounding, or a ballet dancer their first hip-hop bounce, without adding to the timetable.

Competition and convention prep

Practise picking up choreography quickly from an unfamiliar teacher, which is exactly what a convention weekend asks for.

Dancers who miss class

Injury, exams, family trips: assign related material so they come back with something rather than nothing.

Your own training

Watch how other professionals break down a phrase, then borrow what works for your own teaching.

Start every assignment with a warm-up

The biggest risk in home training is a dancer pressing play on a combo cold, in a hallway, on tile. Make a warm-up the non-negotiable first half of anything you assign, the same way you would open a class.

Warm-ups in the library run from short and general to style-specific. Pick one that matches the material you are assigning, so the body is prepared for that style's demands rather than warmed up in the abstract.

Previews are public, so dancers can see what they are getting before anyone signs up.

Check the space before you assign anything

Floor

Wood or a dance mat is ideal. Concrete is unsafe for jumps, and anything slippery is unsafe for turns.

Clear room

Arms and legs extended in every direction, with furniture, rugs and anything breakable moved out of the way.

Footwear

Match shoes to the surface. High-friction floors and pivoting feet are how knees get hurt.

Lighting

Enough light to see both the screen and the surroundings clearly.

Screen position

Propped up and angled so dancers are not craning down at a phone on the floor mid-phrase.

Say what to skip

Tell dancers which travelling steps, jumps or floor work to modify at home, and that skipping is the right call in a tight space.

An assignment loop that works

Watching a video is passive. The loop below is what turns it into training you can assess, and it is the part most studios skip.

Assign with a reason. Pick the class yourself and tell dancers why: the hip drop they keep rushing, the balance that falls out on the left side.
Set a deadline. One warm-up and one combo a week is realistic. More gets abandoned.
Ask for film. A phone video of the full combo, front-on, whole body in frame.
Ask for three takeaways. A few sentences on what the teacher emphasised. This is where the learning sticks.
Give feedback. Two specifics and one thing to fix next time, in class or in writing.
Bring it back to the room. Revisit the same material in person so dancers feel the difference.

Pick on their behalf

Match the level, not the ambition

Levels run basic, beginner, intermediate and advanced. Dancers routinely pick something too hard, get frustrated, and decide online training is not for them. Choosing on their behalf avoids that.

Across-the-floor and technique material is useful here: it isolates one skill rather than asking a dancer to hold a whole routine in their head, which makes your feedback specific.

Balances Across the Floor with Ben Bigler

Explosive Across the Floor with Annie Gratton

What a membership covers

DancePlug memberships are individual. Each dancer signs up with their own account, on their own device, wherever they are. There is no studio or classroom licence, so a single membership is not a way to screen classes to a room full of students or to share a login across a team.

The choreography in each tutorial remains the intellectual property of the instructor who created it, and the videos remain DancePlug's. Use them for training, not for re-recording, re-posting or teaching on as your own.

If you want to give dancers access rather than asking families to subscribe, gift access is available as a one-off purchase from the pricing page.

Practical

One account per dancer, on any device
7-day free trial on recurring plans
Gift access for a fixed period, no subscription
Previews are public, so parents can look first

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Tell us what you need

We are building course plans next

Multi-week plans built from the library, so a dancer or a team can follow a structured block instead of picking classes at random.

Before we build it, we want to hear from the people who would use it. Tell us what would actually help, and we will come back to you as it takes shape.