**Edited and updated on April 3 for the modified schedule in April.**
Hi everyone!
We’ve started our busiest (and most fun) part of the year! Congratulations to all of our dancers at their first competition of the year, you all looked amazing and brought out the best performances we’ve seen yet! Thank you to everyone who helped out backstage with everything, it would not have gone nearly so smoothly without you.
Good luck to all of our Competitive and Intensive dancers moving on to their competitions out of town in the next couple of weeks!
Important dates
April 4-7 – Santana Dance Festival (final times are here) – Competitive and Intensive students only
April 10-11 – Dance pictures (Schedule is here)
April 17-20 – For the Love of Dance Festival (final times are here) – Competitive and Intensive students only
April 25-28 – Elite Dance Productions (No times yet) – Senior Intensive students only
April 28 – Grade 3 ballet exams
April 30 – Grace 5 ballet exams
May 6-9 – finale rehearsal for all Technique, Performance, Competitive and Intensive students (details to follow)
May 9-12 – Standing Ovation (No times yet) – Intermediate and Senior Intensive students only
May 15 – Year end recital (details to follow)
Modified and combined schedules
As this is the busiest time of the year, we have some modified schedules coming up. Due to students and teachers being away for competitions, we will have some changes to our schedule in April. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Important dates (they are, or will be in the studio calendar in the Studio 43 app).
April 1-5:
April 1 – Regular Monday classes
April 2 – Regular Tuesday classes
April 3 – Modified/combined Wednesday schedule (scroll down for times)
April 4 – Miss Maria’s classes cancelled, Miss Amber’s Thursday Minions regular class times
April 5 – no dance classes
April 8-12:
April 8 – Regular Monday/Wednesday classes
April 9 – Regular Tuesday/Thursday classes
April 10 – Dance pictures (Wednesday classes combined to Monday, picture schedule is here)
April 11 – Dance pictures continue (Thursday classes combined to Tuesday, picture schedule is here)
April 12 – Regular Friday classes
April 15-19:
April 15-19 – Spring break – no regular classes
April 17-20 – For the Love of Dance festival (Kinder, Competition and Intensive dancers – Schedule is here)
April 22-26
April 22 – Easter Monday – regular Monday dance classes
April 23 – regular Tuesday dance classes
April 24 – regular Wednesday dance classes
April 25 – regular Thursday dance classes
April 26 – no dance classes (Grade 3 exam students – we will send out info)
April 29-May 3
April 29 – all classes combined with Wednesday classes on May 1
April 30 – all classes combined with Thursday classes on May 2
May 1 – Monday/Wednesday combined classes
May 2 – Tuesday/Thursday combined classes
May 3 – Miss Gemma’s classes cancelled, Miss Maria’s regular classes
May 6-10
Last week of classes for all dancers
May 6 – regular classes
May 7 – regular classes
May 8 – regular classes
May 9 – regular classes
May 10 – Miss Gemma’s regular classes are running, Miss Maria’s cancelled.
May 13-15
May 13 – ballet makeup from April
May 14 – adult classes if necessary
May 15 – recital at the C2 (details to be emailed)
Keep practicing everyone, we’ve got some tough competition ahead of us!
Modified dates:
April 3:
South Studio:
4:00-5:00 – Competitive Minions
North Studio:
4:00-4:30 – Kinder tap
4:30-5:00 – Kinder hip hop
5:00-5:30 – Toy Story
5:30-6:00 – Jumanji
6:00-6:30 – Motorsport
6:30-7:00 – Bruno Live!