Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class by Abby Lee Miller

Author:Abby Lee Miller [Miller, Abby Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

DON’T OVERSTEP YOUR BOUNDARIES

A good example of overstepping boundaries would be if I were to ask one of the moms at my studio to order rhinestones for the girls’ costumes using my account with a wholesaler, and then at a later date she calls using my name to order rhinestones at wholesale prices for herself to use on her kid’s dance bags, leotards, and costumes. That’s overstepping the boundary—especially when she easily could have called one of my two stores and purchased rhinestones the retail way. I have a mercantile license and I pay sales tax, insurance and telephone bills, and credit card fees.

And it’s not always the moms who overstep boundaries. One time a photographer who has a kid who dances at my studio needed a headshot of another student quickly, so I let him come in and get the shot. The kid’s mother paid the photographer for his services. The next thing I know this photographer is taking more kids’ headshots in my studio because he used that one kid’s headshot as an advertisement. He was claiming to be Abby Lee Miller’s official photographer. By the time I figured this out, he had already taken a hundred headshots, and a hundred kids’ families had spent a fortune. I’ve got nothing to do with this photographer, and if it hadn’t been for my allowing him to take that one headshot, he never would have had the opportunity to photograph all my students, resulting in all that money. That’s overstepping your boundaries.

Here’s another example. When students have been dancing with me from a very young age, once they turn eleven or twelve I have them help the younger students as class demonstrators. Then when they’re around fifteen or sixteen, they become more like assistant teachers. When they’re eighteen, and it’s their senior year, I give them the opportunity to teach my curriculum. Every month they get a paycheck and they get a lesson plan from me for their next month of classes. A teenager is overstepping her boundaries when she starts teaching dance lessons to neighborhood kids in her basement, or she has a dance room in her house above the garage and she’s charging money for youngsters in the area to come take dance lessons using my curriculum, my lesson plans, and my accumulated knowledge. That’s overstepping your boundaries. Don’t do it!

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