robinb
DIS veteran
- Joined
- Aug 29, 1999
Oh, please . That seems more about control than respect. Do you also chain the audience to their seats? Lock the doors when the lights go down? I have to tell you I am eternally grateful that my daughter doesn't go to YOUR dance school ... and given my personality I am sure the feeling are mutual .Not really. It's just about offering respect to those who are performing.
When students (or anyone else) are coming and going from an auditorium, those on stage aren't being respected for the hard work that they have put into the dance that they are performing. It is distracting for the audience, it is distracting for the dancers on stage.
There are some schools who will let the students come into the auditorium at intermission as long as they aren't in the second act, which I don't have a problem with.