Family policies

We ask your written permission before we share any photo of your child, on this site, in newsletters or on social media, and you can change your answer at any time. We never put a child's name with a photo, and the photos on this site are examples until we replace them with our own.

The sixth week of every session is a watch week: families sit along the studio wall and watch a class. On other days the hall has a window onto the tap room, and we keep the door closed so dancers can hear their teacher. Recital seating is open, and photos and video of your own dancer from your seat are welcome, without flash.

Wear anything you can move in: leggings or shorts and a plain top, with the hair off the face. Clean sneakers or socks are fine for the first weeks, and we will tell you when tap or jazz shoes are needed. Tap shoes stay in a bag until the studio door, so the boards stay clean. We take costume sizes in person, in the winter.

Please keep your dancer home with a fever, vomiting or diarrhea, and until they have been well for a full day. Text or call the studio, and we will tell you how a missed class can be made up.

A grown-up brings and collects every dancer under 10, and the teacher hands each child to the person who came with them. For older dancers, the door opens ten minutes before class, and we ask you to tell us who is collecting. We ask for ID from anyone we haven't met.

Text or call the studio when your dancer will miss a class. A missed class can be made up in another class of the same level, or the level just below it, within the same session. A dancer who arrives after the warm-up joins quietly, and if class is well under way we will ask you to come back next week.

We close the week of Thanksgiving, for the winter holidays and for one week in spring that follows the area schools. When the area schools close for snow, we close, and we text every family that morning. A missed week because of weather is made up with a class later in the session.

Phones stay in bags during class. We don't photograph or film class, apart from watch weeks and the recital, when you are welcome to film your own dancer. Please keep other children out of your shots.