Amateur status & teaching

[danceislove]

Ok I tried searching for an answer in previous threads, but they either quickly disintegrated or were addressing the pro/am-teaching dilemma instead.
The NDCA rulebook has changed and now seems very vague. It no longer says anything about financial gain being a determining factor that I can see? I would love some help with interpretation!


So here it is:
Can you compete as an amateur and still teach?

 

[etp777]

NDCA = Yes
USADance = Not sure

 

[NielsenE]

NDCA: Yes if you are competing Am-Am, no if you are competing Pro-am

 

[atk]

NDCA: Yes if you are competing Am-Am, no if you are competing Pro-am

Clarification (as I understand it): NDCA: Yes if you are competing Am-Am, no if you are competing as the am in Pro-am


(edit: See mamboqueen's comment below - I originally, incorrectly wrote pro, in the bolded text)

 

[mamboqueen]

I think you meant "am"?

 

[Chris Stratton]

Both organizations now have comparable criteria for competing in their amateur events:

- you can't call yourself a professional
- you can't compete in a professional event
- you can't compete as the pro half of a pro/am pair

(NDCA has a few other unclear conditions about various other employment in the dance industry.)

The general answer is that yes, you can now teach and compete in amateur events sanctioned by both organizations.

Pro/am student dancers are now seperately defined as their own category with their own eligibility rules, which strongly prohibit teaching.

 

[Laura]

You got it, Chris.

 

[Egoist]

To be clear, can you make as much money as you want out of teaching?

 

[njdancegirl]

Pro/am student dancers are now seperately defined as their own category with their own eligibility rules, which strongly prohibit teaching.

I am currently the am in a pro/am couple, but in the past was an am in an am/am couple. I have no aspirations of teaching - I'll leave that to the professionals - but why are pro/am am's being discriminated against? I'm the same dancer just with a different partner.

 

[mamboqueen]

oh boy. there are more threads on that subject than there are stones on my latin dress.

 

[danceislove]

Woah wait here people. This is what happened in the other threads, it rapidly descended into discussion of how pro/am am's can't teach.

Ok so to clarify. An AM can teach and be paid for it as much as they want as long as they do not:
1. call themselves a pro
2. compete pro/am on either side

Is that correct?

 

[Laura]

Yes danceislove.

 

[danceislove]

Thanks Laura
(and everyone else!)

Ok here is another "what if" monkey wrench....
"What if" the am owns a studio? Does that make any difference?

 

[atk]

I think you meant "am"?

Oops! You're right. I guess I ddint' clarify very well... I've edited my post to fix that.

 

[njdancegirl]

oh boy. there are more threads on that subject than there are stones on my latin dress.

Sorry...didn't mean to open up a can of already open worms! I knew pros obviously could teach and now ams could teach under USA Dance, didn't realize that ams in pro/am couple couldn't...will do a search for those previous discussions!