Don't mean to be rude but you're reasoning runs short. Low income people should also have just as much of an opportunity to dance at a competitive level and asking for the chance to make it a little more affordable for them by offering scholarship programs is not an act of entitlement. Maybe it would help for you to know that many dance studios offer some form of a scholarship program to select students. Offering scholarship opportunities for select dancers does not mean the instructors are going to be financially hurt or affected by this esp if the studio is successful in its business.

Why do you think a reputable and highly successful studio that offers scholarship program would incrue financial hardship or that the instructor will take the hit, where is the reasoning behind this logic? I'm not asking 'charity' from a small studio but of a highly successful one that has been in business for over a decade with world class instructors. This particular studio can afford to help its community by offering select students scholarship opportunities; there is no reason why it can't.

Hip hop studios (also another street dance) offer scholarship programs to students and do well. Many are successful studios and have top notch instructors and pay them competitive industry rates.

Dance is a respectable art form and should not be elevated only to include rich people who can pay up. I didn't have money growing up and am now a working student paying for my own education. There are people in similar positions who don't have the means to shit $200 a month for membership to a studio, and I don't think asking for scholarship opportunities for need based people qualifies as an act of entitlement. Some people want more than anything to pursue their passion but don't have the resources. I don't see why it is so wrong for a successful business to help some of these people and its community out.