March news and recital info
(this newsletter was emailed to everyone on March 9th)
DanceStation: March 2026 Newsletter
Recital Prep Time!!!!
Attendance. Now that recital time is here, it is very important to have excellent attendance. Please try your best to attend every class possible in these upcoming weeks that the dancers are learning their choreography. As stated earlier in the year, the week before the recital has several mandatory rehearsals that need to be attended, so mark your calendars now to be home the week before the performances!!!
The DanceStation App. If you are a new family since January, make sure you have our DS app. Its free on the Apple app store or on Google play. Just download the app and make sure you allow notifications. Also you can go into settings, apps, and change the notification banners to persistent. The app has all of our newsletters, calendar for the studio, and you can also log in to the parent portal and pay through the app as well. We do lots of reminders and notifications through the app leading up to recitals, so if you don’t have the app you will be missing important reminders!
Each year we offer Broadway classes (after Cecchetti exams are finished) as an extra performing opportunity in our recitals for those dancers in Ballet 2 and up.
Int/Adv Bway for Ballet Int/Adv dancers starts this Wed from 6:30-8pm. We are doing music videos this year and we start learning Rhythm Nation this week! This class is $30 per month, March- June. Dancers have already signed up for this class last month.
Broadway for Ballet 5-7 will start on Thursdays, April 9th from 8:30-9:15pm, the cost is $25 per month April- June. We are dancing to Bye Bye Bye! and Single Ladies (they are part of the music video medley this year for the Adv Bway performance). There will be a costume rental for this class. Sign up sheet is in the lobby.
Broadway Jr is available for ballet levels 2-5 and will start Tuesday, April 7th from 4-5pm. It is a 9 week class/workshop and is $95 total, due on the first day of class. This includes a $30 costume rental for the recital. Our theme is One Hit Wonders! So Bway jr is doing ‘Puttin on the Ritz’ and ‘Jump in the Line’ (Shake Senora from Beetlejuice). Sign up sheet is in the lobby.
Spring Break is Tues March 31st – Mon April 6th (Tues – Easter Monday). The studio calendar is located on the app if you are ever unsure.
A Costume deposit of $55 was due at the end of January, and the remaining balance owed will be added to your parent portal account at the end of March to be due with April tuition. To access your balance, just log into your parent portal on April 1st and it will show your costume balance. We try really hard to keep costume costs low, but costume prices have been rising in the last 3-4 years, mostly due to supply. Many costume companies have gone out of business in the past few years, so we don’t have as many options as we used to. That said, I really try and save everyone money by combining tap/jazz costumes when they are younger, or doing costume rentals for Broadway, modern, and some older tap classes wherever we can. Many studios charge $90-100 per costume for every dance.
***Even if you are enrolled in Auto-pay, you will still have to manually log in and pay your balance. Auto-pay only pulls tuition every month.***
Recital Picture Day is always the Sunday before the recital. This year that is Sunday, May 31st. Times for each class will be posted in early May, so please tell us of any huge conflicts before then (once the times are posted the schedule cannot change).
The week leading up to the recitals will have extra rehearsals/dress rehearsals here at the studio and at the Hett. There are no regular classes that week, just the larger full-cast rehearsals to work on our 2 different story ballets. We require a larger rehearsal in the big studio to put the ballets in order before we head to the Hett (the auditorium we perform in). It makes things much easier when we get to the Dress Rehearsals on stage. Exact days/times will be in the April newsletter. We also included the mandatory rehearsal week in your recital contract you signed back in January, so that there would be no surprises.
Recitals:
Sat. June 6th afternoon -The Fairy Garden/Around the World – Mon 6:45pm Combo Flowers, Wed 5/6yr 6:30pm Unicorns, Thur 3/4 yr 5:15pm Bees, Thur 5/6 yr 6pm Butterflies, Thur Combo 7pm Fairies
Sat June 6th evening – La Sylphide/One Hit Wonders! (all Ballet levels 2 through Adv, then after intermission is jazz/tap levels 2-5, Modern 1-2, Boys Hip Hop, and Bway Jr)
Sun. June 7th afternoon – The Fairy Garden/Around the World – Mon 3/4 yr 5pm unicorns, Mon 5/6yr 5:45pm Flowers, Tues 5/6 yr 5pm Butterflies, Wed 3/4 yr 4:30pm Bees, Wed 5:15pm Combo Fairies
Sun. June 7th evening – La Sylphide/Then and Now: Celebrating 20 years of Dancing! (Ballet levels 5 and up and Jazz/Tap 5-Adv, Modern Int and Adv, Bway 5-7, Bway Int and Adv)
Thanks! Happy Spring and enjoy this lovely weather!!!!
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