Attire: All dancers should wear clothes that they can easily move in. No jeans or long dresses.
Footwear: No street shoes. Acceptable footwear: barefeet, ballet shoes of any color, jazz shoes. For adults, socks are ok. For children, socks with grippers only, plain socks can be slippery.
Mini Bop & Hip Hop
Hair:
Students identifying as male: If falls long, secured away from the face.
Students identifying as female: Pulled back away from the face, either in a ponytail, half ponytail, bun, or braid.
No jewelry, except for small pierced ears studs
Attire: All dancers should wear clothes that they can easily move in. No jeans or long dresses.
Shoes: Clean Sneakers or High Tops. Shoes should not be used outside the dance studio once they’ve been cleaned.
Intro to Musical Theatre/Song
Shoes: No street shoes allowed on the studio floor.
Clothing, hair, and accessories should not be a distraction from the lesson. Consider no jewelry on class days, and keeping hair pulled away from the face.
Tap - Ages 7+
Hair:
Students identifying as male: If falls long, secured away from the face.
Students identifying as female: Pulled back away from the face, either in a ponytail, half ponytail, bun, or braid.
No jewelry, except for small pierced ears studs
Attire: All dancers should wear clothes that they can easily move in. No long dresses. Pants should allow for visible ankles.
Footwear: Tap shoes- any!
Students Identifying as Female - all other genres
Ages 3-6
Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Tumbling:
Hair: Cleanly pulled back in either a bun, pony tail, or braid. There should be no strands falling into the face.
No jewelry, except for small pierced ears studs
Attire: Option of Dance leotard, dance dresses, dance shorts/tops sets or leotards, unitards. Jazz pants, jazz leggings, jazz shorts, or tights are optional. Tutus and dance skirts are acceptable for ballet and tap.
Footwear: With shoes- Either tights, thin socks, or nothing.
Ballet: ballet slippers (if buying new: any shades of pink or nude, no laces).
Jazz: jazz shoes (if buying new: black, no laces)
Tap: tap shoes (if buying new: black no laces)
Tumbling: jazz shoes or bare feet
Ages 7+
Ballet:
Hair: A clean, slick, ballet bun.
No jewelry, except for small pierced ears studs
Attire: leotard required (any color/style). Tights required (pink, nude, or white). Ballet skirts are acceptable, in any color.
Footwear: any shade of pink or nude ballet slippers, with tights.
Jazz, Musical Theatre Levels 1+, Modern all Levels, Acro all Levels:
Hair: Cleanly pulled back in either a bun, pony tail, or braid. There should be no strands falling into the face.
No jewelry, except for small pierced ears studs
Attire: Option of leotard, dance dress, dance shorts/tops or unitards, no tights or convertible (aka able to roll up for bare feet)
Footwear: With shoes- Either tights, thin socks, or nothing.
Jazz: Jazz shoes any style (if buying new, black).
Musical Theatre Levels 1+: Jazz shoes any style (if buying new, black)
Modern all levels: bare feet
Acro all levels: bare feet
Students Identifying as Male for all other genres
Ages 3-6
Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Tumbling:
Hair: If falls long, secured away from the face.
No jewelry, except for small pierced ears studs.
Attire: some text
Option of Black jazz tights (leggings), black dance pants, or black dance shorts
T-shirt
Footwear: With shoes- Either tights, thin socks, or nothing.
Ballet: ballet slippers (if buying new: white, no laces).
Jazz: jazz shoes, (if buying new, black, no laces)
Tap: tap shoes (if buying new, black no laces)
Ages 7+
Ballet:
Hair: If falls long, secured away from the face.
No jewelry, except for small pierced ears studs.
Black dance tights (leggings), dance belt for Levels 1+
White t-shirt
Socks: Thin white crew-length dance socks (no tube socks).
White Ballet Slippers
Jazz, Musical Theatre Levels 1+, Modern all Levels, Acro all Levels:
Hair: If falls long, secured away from the face.
No jewelry, except for small pierced ears studs.
Option of Black jazz tights (leggings), black dance pants, or black dance shorts
T-shirt
Footwear: With shoes- Either tights, thin socks, or nothing.
Jazz: Jazz shoes any style (if buying new, black).
Musical Theater Levels 1+: Jazz shoes any style (if buying new, black)
Modern all levels: bare feet
Acro all levels: bare feet
Adult Classes
Attire: Wear clothing that allows for appropriate movement
Shoes: Shoes that fit the genre. Reach out with questions