Dress Code 2024-2025 Season

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Caretaker Classes

  • 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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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! 

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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

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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

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Adult Classes

  • Attire: Wear clothing that allows for appropriate movement
  • Shoes: Shoes that fit the genre. Reach out with questions

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