Happenings

Coming Home this Week

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For our Red, Yellow, Green, and Indigo classes, information about this spring’s Friday offerings will come home this week. In this session, we have six weeks of acrobatic dance and four weeks of ballet & jazz barre.

Included in this paperwork is also a reminder of our spring and summer offerings:

How to Make a Ballerina Bun

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Picture Day is finally here! To help our first-time bun makers, we’re reposting our ballerina bun tutorial.
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All students with long hair are required to have their hair in a bun for dance class. Boys and girls who have short hair that cannot fit into a bun must have their hair pulled away from their face.

If you’re not sure how to make a bun for your dancer, there are a couple videos below to help you. {All students who dance two or more days per week should work toward being able to make their own buns.}

What you need:

  • Hair tie
  • Hairnet
  • Hair pins: these are open and look like a V
  • Bobby pins are helpful if your dancer has little hairs that won’t reach the bun

Tips:

  • Hair pins first, then the hair net, then a few more hair pins to finish
  • Insert hair pins around the edge of the bun.
  • Hair pins should enter the bun facing away from the bun. Then, once the pins have touched the scalp just beyond the bun, they should be flipped back toward the bun. This is what keeps the bun really secure.
  • Make the bun at the crown of the head.
  • Twisting the hair at the beginning makes it easier to keep everything contained.
  • Leaving a tail before you put on the hairnet is okay. That’s what the hairnet is there for.
  • These don’t have to be perfect! They get easier the more you do them!

Picture Day is almost here!

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Picture Day paperwork went home last week. If your dancer was absent from class, their paperwork will come home this week. Please make sure to check the date and time of your dancer’s picture appointment well in advance.

2022-2023 Soloists                  Dance Pix LLC

Classes Resume Today

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Dance classes resume today, January 1!

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For dancers in the finale, please see our schedule of extra rehearsals below. This information was also included in your costume info.

Spring Mid-Week Finale Rehearsals (stay late or arrive early):

Red & Indigo: Tuesdays: 1/16, 2/20, 3/19, 4/16 @ 6:00—6:45 

Yellow & Green: Thursdays: 1/18, 2/22, 3/21, 4/18 @ 5:45—6:30

Spring Sunday Rehearsals:

Finale (Indigo, Green, Yellow, Red): 3/24 & 5/5 @ 9:00-11:00

Extra Dances (camp dances, solos, etc.): 3/24 & 5/5 @ 11:00-12:30

We’re starting the new year by celebrating our alumni who come back to dance with us! Pictured below: Chelsea Ott (’23) and Arlo Ulrich (’23) dancing with our Indigo class.