***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!