Idance.net, website Options

[Dennis]

Anyone familiar with the website idance.net? The site description indicates that you can sign up as an "instructor" and post your dance moves that can then be previewed and downloaded for a small fee. They primarily appear geared towards Bal-Swing, Lindy Hop, and Charleston, and East Coast Swing.

[Kevin]

Anyone familiar with the website idance.net? The site description indicates that you can sign up as an "instructor" and post your dance moves that can then be previewed and downloaded for a small fee. They primarily appear geared towards Bal-Swing, Lindy Hop, and Charleston, and East Coast Swing.

Given the responses to this thread, I think this should give you an indication of how many people have paid a "fee" for those dance clips..

[Dennis]

Anyone familiar with the website idance.net?  The site description indicates that you can sign up as an "instructor" and post your dance moves that can then be previewed and downloaded for a small fee.  They primarily appear geared towards Bal-Swing, Lindy Hop, and Charleston, and East Coast Swing.

Given the responses to this thread, I think this should give you an indication of how many people have paid a "fee" for those dance clips..

You're right Kevin, not much interest in the topic here for sure. I wasn't thinking about it as a great way for anyone to learn moves on the cheap but thought that if they - the website administrators- do anything to promote their site to new dancers, that having an identity on their website as an "instructor" might be one of the many avenues of marketing a dance studio and staff of instructors, such as you have at Viscount Dance Studios. Since I'm not an instructor, I didn't check into the details of how they market and if there is a fee for listing or if they merely get compensated on the back end as a percentage of download fees.

-Dennis

[Joshua]

Looks pretty good to me.

I especially like how they offer free previews of every move. It's nice not having to buy something that you already know. The previews have no audio, only last about five seconds, and have pretty degraded video, but they're definitely good enough to judge if you both like the move and like it enough to get the long version.

[idance.net]

Hello, I am the owner of iDance.net . Thanks for posting about my website. Just to clear up a few things.

All the teachers on iDance are requested by myself and my team to be there. There is no posting of clips from teachers. All the filming, editing and maintaince of the clips and the website are done in house. That keeps all the video quality high and consistant, since we use professional quality videography equipment.

This is why I decided to charge a fee. All this takes much time and money and $.99 for a video clip I thought was very reasonable. Since it includes a full instructional breakdown, you get a lot for the money.

One last thing. Currently we are geared toward Lindy Hop, Balboa, Charleston and Vernacular Jazz, but its called iDance, not iSwing, for a reason. We have started to branch out to Hip Hop, and Salsa is on its way. I started with Swing because I have been Lindy Hopping for about 3 years, and its what I know, but the idea is to have many forms of dance at some point in the future.

If you have any other questions/comments about the site please feel free to contant me or post here on this site.

Thanks and I hope people take a moment to check out the site!