Busy Ballerinas!

Hello Dance Friends! We have had so much going on lately here at DCJ Dance!

We are in full swing prep for our winter recital and this weekend some of our beautiful Divas will be performing at the Miss Dallas Pageant.

 
One of our Alumni Christa Widjaja will also be performing as she gives up her Miss Teen Dallas crown from last year. Miss Jordan was also Miss Teen Dallas so the MDO holds a special place in the DCJ Family's heart!


We can't wait to be there to support Christa, but also to watch our girls be a part of the opening number and finale entertainment. What a cool experience!
 

If you are in the area please join us Saturday night at the Eisemann Theatre in Richardson. Contact the studio for more information.

Welcome Hallowrinas!

Hello little pumpkins!
Tomorrow marks one week from Halloween so you know what that means- all Hallowrinas can wear their costumes to dance! From tomorrow until next Tuesday all students may wear their costumes to class- students must be able to dance in their costume and no masks are allowed. We would recommend wearing a leotard undernieth costumes so if it becomes distracting or uncomforable to wear. We can't wait to see all of our little dancers dreassed up in their boo-tiful costumes and of course wish them a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

***On a side note WalMart is opening it's doors on Wednesday, October 23 so be aware of an extra crowded parking lot***

Fall is in the Air!

Fall is in full swing here at DCJ Dance! We had our Christmas Recital Auditions a few weeks ago; the Competition Team has started to learn chorography for the 12-13 season and all of our students are adjusting to their classes! We love this time of year! It is so fun to see our students start to excel in their classes as well as get involved outside of the studio. We have students are in sports, who play musical instruments, who cheerlead or do drill team and all other types of activities- so fall is also a time to be proud of our very well rounded kiddos at the studio!


This week is Bring A Friend Week at DCJ Dance! We would love to have you bring a friend or two and show them a little about DCJ Dance. Have them check in with Kim at the front desk upon arrival. For each friend you bring you will get your name entered in a drawing for a free spring recital costume and if your friend signs up you will get $25 off your October Tuition. We can’t wait for twice the dancing fun!

***DCJ in Lights***

Today was an exciting day here at the studio! We had our awesome videographer, Perfect Eye Productions, from recital here at the studio to shoot a behind the scenes commercial of sorts. We were able to highlight the kids dancing, stretching at the barre and putting on make-up for a performance. After completion this video will be on our website so you will all get to see it!

 

A special thank you to our video stars for helping us out today –

Olivia Lester

Sarah Johnson

Jessica Sung

Hailey Gove

Lauren Rothert

 

What a fun day – can’t wait to see the finished product!

Snow Cone Saturday was a Success!

We had so much fun during Snow Cone Saturday - were you able to stop by for a tasty treat?! We really enjoyed the yummy snow cones from Rita's Ice and shared Green Apple Goodness and Blue Raspberry Slush with over 80 of the dance studio's friends and family members!

We also gave away some pretty cool prizes - check below to see if you made the winners list!

Taryn McKinstry

Madeleine Birmingham

Katie Anker

Milam Miller

Monica Ahadi

Natalie Frizzell

Paige Freeburg

Lola Poetschke

Lauren Rothert

Cory Stepanski

Kayla Hightower

Ishana Krishnan

***Please see the front desk for your prize!***

New Year - New Classes

This year we have decided to add a few new and exciting classes to our oldies, but goodies (Jazz and Ballet). One of the new classes is Strength, Stretch and Conditioning and the kids really seem to love it so far. SS&C is a mix between boot camp, training for the Olympics and doing whatever you can do to make yourself a better dancer. Only kidding J

But really, in this class the kids will take stretching to a whole new level, fine-tuning their flexibility and reaching to excel. They will also being using arm and leg weights to tone and build strength in muscles they didn’t even know they had – and they do all this while balancing heart-rate boosting exercises for the entire length of the class. Wow! I’m feelin’ the burn just talking about it! All three of these components are an important part building core strength and improving a dancers overall health and well being! We thought this would be a great addition to our class schedule this year and we offer it for Levels 1-5!

 Please let us know at the front desk if you would like to add or try the SS&C class – we can’t promise it will be easy, but it will be well worth it!  

                     Some of the Level 1-3 girls working it out in class! Looking good ladies!

What's Up Wednesday?

See what we were up to this past Wednesday night during class. We welcomed friendly faces that were both new and familiar and had a blast kicking off our first week of class!

Combo 2/3 learning how to stand at the barre!

Miss Sarah with Creative Movement!

Across the floor in Leaps & Turns!

Miss Rebecca making some noise with Tiny Tappers!

Miss Jordan and Combo 2/3

WE ARE HAVING AN AWESOME FIRST WEEK! THANKS FOR BEING A PART OF IT!!!

We Need A Little Christmas...

Some of you may remember our holiday extravaganza “The Night Before Christmas,” from years past - I grew up looking forward to it every year and performed in it from age 8 to 20-somthing! Well over the past three years we haven't had it - we moved studios over the weekend it was normally held, SOMEBODY ;) got married, etc. Well this year we decided we needed a little more Christmas in our lives and have decided to do an interpretation on our show combined with the entire studio for a Christmas Recital. Check out the details below - I for one am very excited! We will have some feature rolls doing excerpts from our show and all the classes doing a Christmas themed dance they will learn in class. Please see Kim at the front desk for more info!

Anyone recognize this Dancin' Doll? - It's Miss Jordan!

A message from DCJ:

This year the studio will hold a Winter Recital for all students on Sunday afternoon, December 16.  All classes will perform a dance in the show.  There will be no dress rehearsal, recital fee, and costumes will be very minimal and low cost.  Of course, the winter recital is optional, as is the spring recital.

In addition to classes performing we will incorporate featured roles from our show “The Night Before Christmas” that was performed for over 15 years.  Auditions for featured roles will be held on Saturday, Sept. 8.

   Requirements for audition and featured roles:

· age 6 and older, with a minimum of one full year of dance training

· $100 rehearsal and costume rental fee

· Rehearsals will take place on various Friday evenings, Saturdays,   possible Sundays and during the week.

· Dancers must commit to performing in role cast when auditioning and attending all rehearsals.

· Featured roles will have dress rehearsal on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 15 and perform in 2 shows on Sunday, Dec. 16.

· Featured roles include ballet, pointe, jazz, modern, and tap.

Please see dvd in lobby of our last show and photo album of pictures from show.  Check with any of the teachers for more information or questions.

Back to Dance!!!

Hello again! Welcome back to another year of dance! We are so excited to celebrate our 36th year of dance with you! We have so many exciting and new things happening this year and we can not wait to share them all with you! Make sure you get enrolled asap as some classes are filling up quickly! Stay tuned this week for more info each day and we can't wait to see you in class!

Easter Weekend and Monday (bad weather day)

Hey Dancers! Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

It was a nice weekend off of dance to spend with family! We also have today - April 9th off as well. As many of you know we follow the LISD calender and they are closed for a bad weather day today. Crazy to think that a year ago we used up all of our bad weather days and then some and this year we have barely had enough cold days to go though a bushel of fire. Today is also Ms. Rebecca's birthday so send her some good bday vibes!

Even though the studio is closed we will have 5 hours, yes 5 (ekk), of rehearsal for the recital opening number - 35 Seasons of Love - wish us luck as we travel through the decades and go on a wild ride of music from then to now!

Until next time!!!

Competition Season is in FULL SWING!!!

Hey Guys!

Competition season is in full swing around here which is why we have been so MIA lately. The good news is - we have totally been winning! SO it was worth missing us!

We have competitied in two competitions so far and have another one this weekend!

Here are the results from this past weekend!

Petites:

I Won’t Grow Up—Platnium, 1st Overall sm grp

3, 6, 9—Platinum, 1st Overall large grp

March of the Toys—Platinum, 3rd Overall lg grp

Marigny Williams—Platinum, Showmanship Award, 1st Overall Solo

Samantha Scott—Platinum, 2nd Overall

Isabell Amell—Platinum, 5th Overall

Katie Kelley—Platinum

Juniors:

It’s Tricky—Platinum, 1st Overall sm grp

Stars & Stripes—Platinum, Precision Award, 1st Overall lg. group 

Hymn—Platinum, Choreography Award, 2nd Overall lg. group

Ay Carumba, Platinum, 3rd Overall Lg. Grp

Newsies—Platinum, entertainment Award, Technical Excellence Award (highest score of competition, 1st Overall Production

Lauren Rothert—Platinum, 1st Overall

Sarah Johnson—Platinum, 3rd overall

Emily McAfee—Platinum, 4th Overall

Madie Terrerri—Platinum, 5th Overall

Hailey Gove—Platinum—8th Overall

Jessica Sung—High Gold

Teens

Face—Platinum, 4th Overall

On the Floor—Platinum—6th Overall

Time to say Goodbye—Platinum

If I Were a Boy—High Gold

Reagan Demaree & Baylee Hodson (duet) -   Platinum, Showmanship Award, 4th Overall

Megan McDonald—Platinum, Entertainment Award

Payton Millis—Platinum

Monica Fernandez—High Gold

Seniors

I Put a spell on You—Platinum, Technical Excellence Award, 1st Overall Award, 1st Overall

Cold Hearted Snake—Platinum, 2nd Overall

Skinny Love—Platinum, Precision Award, 4th Overall

Jessica Powell—Platinum, Technical Excellence Award, 1st Overall

McKenzie Bishop, Platinum, 3rd Overall

Not too shabby if you ask me! Keep up the great work divas!

Calling all Alums!

Hey Friends!

We are in a New Year and are beginning to gear up for our End of Year Recital. This year we will be celebrating 35 years of business and in honor of that our show will be called "35 Seasons of Love."

As an added bonus we wanted to add an alumni dance welcome to all former students who have graduated from high school. No matter if you took from us year one or five years ago we want you to come back and dance with us again.

So please help us spread the word and if you want more information feel free to contact us at dcjdancestudio@yahoo.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF DANCE!

Happy New Year Dancers!

We wanted to remind you that dance starts back today! We hope you enjoyed your holiday break and are ready to start back in full swing. January is the last month to enroll in new classes or for new students to join in time for the recital. Spring semester always flys by so be ready!!! We will have a list of important Spring dates later this week so check back to match up your calender later!

Let's make 2012 even better than last year! Welcome back!