Choreography Is Too Expensive

The title of this piece is a phrase often heard and read across the country among coaches and owners.

A choreographer is like the director and the screenwriter of a film, all rolled into one, but for cheerleaders and routines instead of actors on screen. They create and plan the routines for athletes to perform and compete, usually to music and to match the image and style of a program

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To do this, you’ll need a high level of dancing ability, creativity, the patience to teach it to other people, scoresheet knowledge, and the ability to know what looks good to a wider audience, as well as the communication skills needed to make sure that your point is coming across clearly to your cheerleaders.

The best choreographers run whole sections by themselves, playing out a vision through meticulous planning of dances, concepts, music, and visuals, to engage an audience completely. Choreographers often travel year round, which also involves balancing their own accounts and managing costs.

Since their services can be extremely expensive we wanted to provide a solution that can be a win-win situation for a choreographer and a program….

In House Choreo – Hire an in-house choreographer!
Reach out to someone professional and talented. Someone who:
– Choreographs full year routines at a 25% discount and half year routines at a 50% discount.
– Assists teams weekly throughout the year at 2 team practices per week (allows time for travel work)
– Distributes pay for routines in a year-long salary.
– Adds Coaching to salary at a low rate of 15$ per hour.
Hiring your help in this way can save money in multiple ways!
– Gym saves a large amount of money by insourcing and having choreographer available for upgrades/adjustments year round, knowledge, and perspective. (No Travel/Hotel Costs)
– Choreographer benefits from having constant flexible hours and freedom to travel as long as two practice minimum is met weekly and work is high quality.

Try the numbers for yourself. Calculate billable hours for a minimum of 4 full year teams worth of choreography (1 upgrade each throughout the year), 2 half year teams, and year round coaching. You’ll end up with a cost of around 20,000 before you even look at travel (industry rate charged). The gym will only pay the choreographer around 13,500. So you could save a minimum of 7,500 to use in your company!

Don’t forget about the benefits of intellectual property gained by the choreographer working with other gyms. When they come back to your gym and improve your program you’ll benefit even more! Many conventional problems from outsourcing choreography disappear when you seek out a professional and talented choreographer to work for your company! Ensure your protecting yourself locally by drawing up a non-compete that ranges 50 miles! Guarantee a prorated pay for work completed in the case that a season isn’t finished.

Here are more common complaints that could be eliminated! Causing you a less stressful life!

• Being given choreo that is too hard and not being able to adjust it.
• Choreographers not finishing routines.
• Getting routines that are too long.
• Paying hefty travel costs.
• Hiring unscreened & unsafe individuals to work with your kids.
• No show choreographers.
• Over promising and under delivering then leaving.
• Scheduling that doesn’t work best for your program.
• Having to fix illegal choreo on your own

If you liked this idea, keep the conversation going below in our comments or on ASGA’s Facebook Group

Till next time!