I have a dancer studio in my house how can be modest about it?

Question

Hey guys I have a hard question for evry1.
Here it goes
I am 15 I am n have been a dancer for about 11 years dancing is my life and my passion. I am fortunate enough that I live in the biggest house in my community, it is 4500 sq ft with a pool n everything, recently my parents made a portion of our basement into a dance studio for me. The dance studio is about 25 by 30 feet it has mirrored walls and ballet barres. I have been very conscious about it for a few weeks now. All the people in our area were already jelous of us n our house n now all my friends think I am a show off. I always try to be as down to earth as possible but they always find a way. I don't want to be known as a bar dancer or in any other negative way. But I can't ignore the fact that I am more fortunate than the people I know n I don't want any1 to say somthing to my parents because the dance studio cost them about 15000 bucks. I feel indebted to them already so I don't know how to convince people to stop calling me a spoiled brat and to stop taking advantage of me. Thx

Answer 1

In your basement? Hope you have a sprung floor put in with marley over it. If not you will be bragging about your painful joints and nothing more than that. Dancing on solid wood over cement will kill your knees. If they did put in a sprung floor, your ceiling will be to low most likely so you wont be able to do any jumping.

If dancing is your passion, you only get better by being in class not in your own studio by yourself. Dance improvement is all about corrections and you need a teacher for that.

Your friends may be jealous about your house and your pool, but if they are real dancers, not likely about a home studio, unless it comes with high ceilings, sprung or floating floor with marely on top and David Howard.

Answer 2

People only take advantage of you IF YOU LET THEM. Learn to say "no."

You can be polite, and say, "I'm sorry. No." But practice saying it.

As for calling you a spoiled brat, say, "I didn't have any choice in who my parents were. I'm fortunate that they love me enough to spend their money on me."



And then forget about it. What, your parents are supposed to make you dress in rags so you don't look like you have a wealthy family? Puhleez!



If you grow up to be a worthless table top dancer, and don't bother to learn anything in school and refuse to get a job, THEN you are a spoiled brat. Right now, you're just a VERY fortunate young lady, who should stop worrying about the jealous idiots you are stuck going to school with, and focus on YOU. Your dancing, your education.

You will NOT be around those fools when you get a few years older. There is a BIG WIDE WORLD that you will go into. The poor people will be stuck with poor people jobs. You were lucky enough to be born to a better class than that. Don't rub their noses in it, but certainly don't let their jealous little comments make you feel bad because you were born lucky.



Just smile and don't say anything to the snarky ones. Don't try to "buy" your friends, and don't gloat about what you do have. You don't need to. Just enjoy it, and thank your parents for loving you.



I hope you become a successful and popular dancer when you grow up!

~Moz

Answer 3

Then don't tell them. If you want to use the space with them offer to have the practise at your house, then just use your studio space. They should be more than happy to come over.



You just have to stop telling people who are not going to use the space.



What is a "bar dancer" by the way? Do you mean like ballet barre? And what's a "dancer studio?" My god and you've been dancing for 11 years?!



And who is going to complain to your parents? Why would they say it is unfair that YOUR parents gave this to you?!



You're 15 I think you can figure this out....