Yes, dancing is very niche. Mind if I vent some of my own thoughts on attempts to promote dance?

I have a hard time promoting it for my own work as a dance instructor. It always pains me when a studio, director, or club asks me to not promote dances and classes from other studios and teachers, because they think it means they will lose customers and business will drop. More opportunities and more people participating, learning, practicing, and talking about dance is always good for the community growth.

There are many sharks out there presenting themselves as celebrity dance teachers for only the cool people or rich people to learn from, and I try to warn people of the true quality of their character, methods, and experience. The are vile ones who create division and slander others to selfishly build a short-lived empire on lies and empty promises, and then run when reality catches up. In rare cases, there are dancers I prefer not to ever support, besides basic human respect all people deserve.

There is very little dance related articles here on steemit, and it disappears so quickly. I find very few people interested in dance in real life, especially men. For something like dance, which is a single event, single moment type of artform, it really suffers from its inability for people to view it. A photograph or painting can be looked at every day. A dance video on steemit disappears in 7 seven days from our feeds unless searched for directly. Videos are sometimes harder to view on the go than a simple image or article. Often times I can't watch a dance video with the audio on, because the record label removed it for copyright reasons, or I am in a place where I cannot turn the audio on or use headphones. Sadly, what is left is dance pantomime. I can review a photo article in a few minutes, but a video I often skip because I do not know how long it will take me to view. The artform fails to reach most people in the same impact as a live event.

Whatever interests people choose to support on steemit, it is up to them to decide. Lately, I have been most interested in bonsai and gardening for my own gratification and development, so those are the posts I tend to view. I keep an eye out for partner dance videos, but it is very rare that I find any new content to follow for new posts on a regular basis. People with more money attached to their voting power, I believe are more interested in wealth building formulas than spreading their money to less popular niche hobbiests. Even I do that that to a small extent (maybe 5 to 10%).

When authors start resteeming unrelated articles, I generally stop following them. I am glad you don't do that very often @donatello and stick to your primary interest to spearhead the dance community here.

Sorry, I got carried away. It weighs heavy on my heart too, having invested so much time and wealth into a dance career, and the returns are sometimes so limited. There is no way I could build a fickle dance business on something so much more fickle as steemit. I am the like the poor instructor who teaches in jeans and old clothes, but my students feel like a million bucks after practicing with me.

Anyway, I agree with you, and I hope you can get over the funk. Let off some steam, and get back on the horse. That's what I do when business is down, because every little bit helps.