The philosophy of our staff at The Ballet Studio is to provide our dancers with a positive, stress-free environment where they will learn how to dance while having FUN. Our goal is to instruct students of all ages in classes that incorporate technique, skill, physical exercise and nutrition tips while focusing on the dancer's character developement. We strive to assist our students in developing not only as dancers, but as individuals possessing the qualities needed to succeed in all areas of life. ABOUT THE CLASS . . .

Each dance class consists of a center floor or barre warm up, skills, drills, technique across the floor and choreographed "just-for-fun" combinations. A curriculum devised for the school enables the staff to teach students the appropriate skills for their dance level. Our staff continually attends classes and workshops to provide students with the latest dance styles and trends. We also offer classical ballet and hip hop workshops taught by professional instructors at the TBS studio.

ATTIRE and SHOES...

Dancers in beginner and intermediate/advanced level classes are to wear any color leotard, tights, or dance pants [short or long] each week.

Dancers in advanced level classes will need to wear dark colored leotards, dance pants or dance shorts. Students may wear suntan tights.

** Please do not wear baggy shorts, sweat pants or sweat shirts . The hair must be pulled back off of the face. No jewelry may be worn (except for small post earrings). Dancers may not chew gum during class!!!

Boys may wear a t-shirt and shorts or sweat pants. Boys may also wear black ballet slippers in beginner level and intermediate level classes. Boys in advanced level classes may wear black ballet slippers and black jazz oxfords. Boys attending the hip-hop class may wear the black jazz sneaker.

DANCERS ARE ASKED TO PLEASE LEAVE THEIR CELL PHONES IN THE WAITING ROOM DURING CLASS. THEY MUST BE TURNED OFF OR PUT ON SILENT. DANCERS MAY NOT CHECK THEIR PHONES FOR CALLS OR TEXT MESSAGES DURING THEIR CLASS SINCE THIS CAUSES A DISTRACTION AND TAKES THE DANCERS FOCUS AWAY FROM THE CLASS. ANY DANCER NEEDING TO USE THE PHONE MAY DO SO BY USING THE TBS PHONE IN THE STUDIO.

DANCE SHOES...

Dancers are to wear the proper shoes each week for class. All students in the BEGINNER level classes need to wear pink ballet slippers.

Dancers in the INTERMEDIATE and INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED level classes need to wear pink ballet slippers and tan jazz slip ons.

Dancers in all other ADVANCED level classes are to wear tan lyrical shoes and tan jazz slip ons.

All COMPETITION students will need to wear the tan jazz slip on and tan lyrical shoe.

Pointe dancers will need to wear pink pointe shoes.

Dancers in the Friday advanced Hip Hop 2 are to wear the black jazz sneaker.

*Instructors will notify students on the exact style names of each shoe that will need to be worn for the season. This information will be given out the first week of August each year. It will also be posted on this web page by the first week of August.

Each week, please check the bulletin board in the waiting room for the shoes that will be worn during the class that day.

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