In the world of competitive dance-biased scoring, skimpy costumes, and toxicrivalries are the additional line items of a bill that exceeds thousands of dollars.Time and money are at stake for parents, but reputation is also at risk for studentsand studios. With no regulation, this third-party industry leaves you askingyourself the same question after every competition: Is it worth it? For ChastaHamilton, six years of sending dancers to competition was six years too many. Sheswore off competitive dance and rewrote her curriculum to focus on the whole personwithin each dancer. In Trash the Trophies, Chasta shows you how she challengedpreconceived notions of success in the dance industry and embraced camaraderie,effective leadership, and philanthropic initiative to transform her studio. With thefour pillars of her intensive training program-technique, performance, community,and character-you''ll learn how to increase ROI for everyone involved. Dance is acommitment to principles; an art form beyond rankings and judgment. This book willshow you how to put meaning back into movement, and joy back into the dancestudio.