Looking for a ballroom dance professional to teach at the new ballroom dancing school for children in Ottawa, Canada. Minimum experience in competitive ballroom dancing of 15 years (starting from a young age), as well as experience of teaching ballroom dancing to children is required.

Why does someone need 15 years of competition experience to teach children? And are you willing to pay for that kind of experience? I think you'd be better off finding someone who relates well to kids. I know of no one who has all your criteria in Ottawa. We're pretty limited when it comes to ballroom dancing and all the instructors are busy. Glad to see there is another studio opening up though.

You make great points, but this sort of experience is nessecary. I myself started ballroom dancing when I was 8 years old in Russia, and I know that to teach children at the international ballroom dancing level, not at the social level, it is necessary that the teacher has had similar type of training that he or she would be providing. The teacher must have experience in being taught as a child, experience in competing as a child, and experience in teaching children.
I came here to Ottawa when I was 12 years old, and up until I was old enough to move to the United States where this type of training was available, my family had no choice but to drive me every week to Montreal, as the training that you are talking about was unfortunately not the right one.
Now, I moved back to Ottawa and opened this studio because there are a lot of children in this city that want to dance and a lot of parents that want their children to dance. I want to do everything possible to provide these children with the best possible training, even if it means bringing an instructor from another country.
Thank you for the nice words and good luck.

The experience requirement might be a bit high, but not more than perhaps 50% beyond reasonable, if this is what it looks like - an effort to train youth for world-class comeptition.

The challenge IS more availability of such people. They are few and far between in North America, and almost anyone already there is going to insist on working for themselves and merely rent space.

Probably the only hope is to find someone in Eastern Europe who you can help with their paperwork and thus get them to work for you for however long that legally requires. But rest assured that once they are "free" to work in your country on their own, they will walk out your door to do so.

Also, thank you for your concern. It is correct that I opened this studio in order to train children for world class competition.
Anyone that has been involved in dance sport on a serious, international level, would understand that the experience requirement is in fact not unreasonable in the least bit. This is a sport that is as big in Europe, as hockey is in Canada. You would not be training world class hockey players by anyone with less experience then I have indicated.
As for your concern that my teacher would leave my studio after however many years the requirement would be: In Russia, almost every public school has a ballroom dancing school for children within it. Many thousands of children are dancing just in Moscow. I would only be happy to have this for Ottawa, for children to have a choice as to which ballroom dancing school for children to attend. Thank you.

I agree- bringing someone from Europe or Russia is probably your best bet- good luck, and I commend you for your efforts!

It will be wonderful to have a world class competition studio here in Ottawa. Do you mind telling me where you are located, are you open for business yet?