Monday, September 11, 2017

September 2017 Newsletter

Welcome to dance!  
I hope you all had a great summer.  We are so excited to get this year started.  Just a few important notes to go over, first of all we email all newsletters and any information needing to go home.  This will be the only hard copy newsletter you receive.  If you do not get this in an email from Stacey Jacobsen please email her at jacobsen.stacey@yahoo.com and let her know right away so you do not miss any information.  With that being said I have to apologize for any slow responses from me in emails especially over the last month.  We have added a new studio in the basement which wasn’t even a thought until the middle of July and we didn’t have a go ahead until August so I have been so busy getting this done as well as adding a new Marley dance floor upstairs so please forgive the chaos of the past month, also with adding the new studio it has caused for a few class time changes thank you for your patience with that, it is going to help us lower our class sizes etc and will be great if you just bear with us as we get the kinks worked out.  Just a reminder of a few rules
Tuition is due at the first lesson of the month. 

Please wear the appropriate dance attire to each class.  Do not wear jeans, or pajamas ever.  Ballet classes should wear leotard and tights, Jazz, lyrical, contemporary, musical theater and production should wear spanks or leggings and a tight fitting tank top or t-shirt (or leotards are always lovely). Hip hop you may want to make sure you have sweats or leggings to put over your spanks to slide on the floor.  Preschool students wear leotards and tights and skirts are optional.  Tumbling students the little short unitards are best, we have Tiffany dance co ones you can buy for $15 this is what they wear when they perform as well.  For shoes all competition students will wear pirouettes.  You need the capezio brand for performances.  I sell them for $25.  All non-competition students need to wear foot undeez.  You will need nude when you perform.  I also sell those they are $15.  Preschool students will need white ballet shoes when they perform and black tap shoes.  Any color or brand is fine for class just keep in mind the colors needed for performances.  I can order you tap or ballet shoes but I do not keep them on hand.  I will be placing an order next week if you would like me to get your shoes please sign up on the shoe order posted on the door at the studio.  Hair should always be pulled up in a ponytail or bun

Only students are allowed in the studio, we will have a parent’s observation in November where you can come and watch the class.  You are welcome to watch from the windows as well, but having parents and extra siblings etc is always a distraction. 

Absolutely NO food or drink (except water) is allowed in the basement studio or side B.  Please actually do not bring anything but water, if you are at dance for multiple hours and have to have a snack please only eat them in the break room or the wood side of the studio, I do not want food or Shoes on the Marley floor.

Please make sure you pick up your students on time.  Please talk to them (as will I) about not climbing on the sign outside. 

As you drop off your kids this first week, it will be a little chaotic as we are dealing with new students, shoes which room you are in etc.  We will get it all figured out so everyone knows where they should be etc this first week. 

If you are in a strictly tumbling class please send a water bottle to class with your child. 

I am finalizing the Christmas recital date and will let you know what it is asap.

If you have any questions or concerns please email Tiffany at tiffanydanceco06@gmail.com Thank you so much for allowing us the opportunity to teach your children.  I look forward to getting to know each of them!

Competition students:  There will be a parents meeting next week to go over competition dates, TDC apparel and uniforms, make up kits and hair and what is expected of you etc there will be 3 different times for this meeting and two separate times for mini team.  Come to whichever time works best for you.  The times are as follows: Monday the 11th at 8pm, Thursday the 14th at 9pm or Friday the 15th at 3:30pm.  For mini team the meeting times will be Wednesday the 13th at 2pm or Thursday the 14th at 6pm.  Sorry for the schedule changes, I think I have tried to accommodate too many different requests and schedules and I can’t do that, this is why my classes are optional so you can do what does fit into your schedule.  We may still have to make a change or two if I see a class is too big or too small, please be patient with me and know that I am just trying to do what is best for each student and that we have to make changes if we let the classes be optional.  Also if I feel a student would be better off on a different team, I do make adjustments through September. Thank you!  I am so excited for this upcoming year.  


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