Betty is a member of Dance Masters of America, Inc., an international organization of dance teachers founded in 1884. Members must pass entrance examinations in each subject they teach, and must follow a code of strict professional ethics. Through this DMA membership, Betty and her older students are able to take advantage of seminars and workshops held throughout the country that are conducted by well-known, nationally acclaimed dance teachers and choreographers.

Classes at the studio are small with a element of personalized instruction geared to the needs of the individual. Instruction is keyed to the individual student's progress. He or she is never advanced before completely mastering the fine points of elementary techniques.

Advanced students act as assistants in classes when they are deemed ready by Miss Tillotson. This is an "on the job" training that can be invaluable in later years. Like learning to drive a car, experience in actually helping teach a class is absolutely necessary to be a competent and dedicated dancing teacher.

Betty Tillotson founded The Kansas City Tap and Musical Comedy Dance Company in 1977. There is a special niche in her heart for the sometimes-disregarded dance form, tap, and the objectives of the tap company are to preserve and improve this uniquely American dance form — tap. Like the United States, tap is a melting pot created from a blend of European and African dances. With the sound of tapping feet from Irish jigs and English clogging and body movements from African tribal dances, tap was born in America about the middle of the nineteenth century, and can be considered an American folk dance.