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We reached out to Victor Smalley and Angel Armas of Stars Dance Studio when Dance Moms: Miami appeared on our TV sets.  We liked that there were 2 young men running a studio, teaching great technique and choreography, and were open to having a zillion people watch it happen.  We especially liked that they had boys at their studio.  The young male dancer that was on the show was Lucas Triana.  We ended up connecting with Lucas and his mom, Brigette, out of mutual enthusiasm on building widespread awareness that boys dance too.

As “The Dance Store for Men” approaches it’s first anniversary of being open, we look back and remember why we started in the first place.  There is no good place to buy men’s and boys’ dance clothes.  Well, we are proud to be still here as THE solution.  Boys' dancewear in particular was the most challenging.  To find a pair of ballet tights for boys might have been “simple” for some, “annoying” for others, and “impossible” for most.  Even if someone found a place for boys' dancewear, the selection was miniscule, the service was probably way under par and the environment surely screamed “no boys allowed.”  Boys' dancewear is not a luxury, it is a need; for boy dancers at least.  We found that boys' dance belts and boys' ballet tights were the most popular items in our boys' dancewear selection. 

Having fun getting your son in a boys' dance belt for the first time?  Probably not.  Well at least they have a decent name.   Dance Belt.  Better than Jock Strap in my opinion.  When you look at the dance belt you don't really see anything alarming except for the thong.  Is it really necessary to have a thong? Yeah.. I wish I could say no but, it is.  It would look like a diaper under tights, leotards or bike shorts.  I would choose the thong over the diaper if I was a 7 year old.  As I mentioned in a previous blog about boys' leotards, the thong is really not a big deal. Unless you are getting a cheap dance belt.   They are torturous.  Cheap, yes.  But torturous.  Don't do it.  It's worth the extra bucks to get a nice one like our Wear Moi dance belt for boys.  Wouldn't you pay $5 to not hear the complaints? 

BOYSDANCETOO hosted an event for NYC's Internet Week. We had a fierce conversation from a stellar group of panelists that was all about entrepreneurship in dance, today's technology in dance, and what the dance world is missing. The subject is super important because according to the bureau of labor statistics, dance jobs are expected to only grow 6% between 2006 and 2016. Oh no! What are we going to do about this? Well having a big event about it was our first step in doing something, but now we need the conversation to continue! We are going to be posting a review of what was discussed, questions for us to discuss, along with comments and videos and info on the subject. We want to hear what you have to say. Click "comments" to participate.

Internet Week New York (@internetweek, #inwny) for internet entrepreneurs is the equivalent of Fashion Week for fashion mavens.  Unofficially referred to as "Geek Week", Internet Week is a week-long celebration (June 6-13) of all things tech, social and entrepreneurial online in the New York community -- a time for the brave souls building businesses online to meet, greet and get to know each other, their supporters, members of the New York business community and the media (see video below).