It happens to us all, we teach so many classes and set so much choreography, that our material starts to become stale. As a master class teacher traveling around the country, this is the number one complaint I hear from the dance teachers and studio owners. What really surprises me, and has become the main impetus for this article, is that most think they are alone with this problem, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I have become so accustom to these setbacks that I am constantly coming up with solutions to motivate and inspire, step one is 'borrowing'. Borrowing is not stealing. Being a tap dancer, I am very aware of the practice that might be called "stealing steps". This is basically an historical form of "borrowing" that helped pass the art form along. During tap challenges it is common practice to take someone's steps and rearrange them to make a whole new musical phrase. Is this really stealing? Of course not. This is a way of exchanging ideas, of using competition to promote innovation, and most importantly sparking our own creativity to take us to new places. The same can be said for all other forms of dance, choreography, music and theme choices. Now that we have license