Viewing and Doing Week

To give you an opportunity to share in your child’s dance journey we invite you into class twice a year for Juniors and once a year for Seniors. We love inviting our parents in to watch a class ‘in action’, take lots of photos and kick your shoes off to join in. Due to space we do limit visitors to 2 people per student.

Between our Viewing and Doing Weeks we don’t want you to miss out on your dancers progress so our Teaching team post photos and videos of class onto our Parent Portal so you can see the skills your dancer is learning.

Community Performances

As a Centre who prides itself on supporting the community, opportunities will arise over the course of the year for our students to participate in performances within the community including nursing homes and fete’s. These performances are not compulsory, however are a great opportunity for your child to bring the joy of dance to others in our community. Notice of these performances will be given out to specific classes involved in these performances.

Annual Performance

Our students in Petit Dance up to Senior classes are offered the opportunity to perform in our Annual performances. This is not a compulsory performance, however it provides your child with an event to develop Performance skills and share their enjoyment of dance with family and friends.

The Junior Performances for Petit Dance up to Lavender (Grade 1) is a local, low key event in Term 4 where the commitments of the children and families is kept minimal. Students in the Junior Performances are NOT required to attend rehearsals before the performance and their performance is held locally in a well lit school hall. We feel added pressure on young children to sit quietly through rehearsals at such a young age can cause undue stress and does not benefit the children. All rehearsals for these students is during normal class time, this provides the children with enough rehearsal time to be able to present their dances with confidence. For this reason it is very important children are at as many classes in the rehearsal period as possible.

Students from Lilac level (Grade 2) will be given the opportunity to perform on a local theatre stage and will be required for a studio rehearsal and Theatre Technical rehearsal. Rehearsal schedules are issued in Term 1 with the Senior Performance taking place in Term 3.

Costumes for the Annual Performance are sourced as cheaply as possible and are yours to keep after the performance. Notice of costume costs and performance dates will be provided to Senior families in Term 1 and Junior families in Term 2.

Performance Feedback:

 

“Such a fantastic concert. Loved every minute of it. Well done to all the dancers.” 

– Belinda

“Wonderful performance today. So many extra details with the stalls, ribbons and flowers. Greatly appreciate you hard work!” 

– Erica

“Thank you Miss Kelly for teaching our Grand daughter Ava. Wonderful concert” 

– Pat

“Well done Kelly, the concert was fantastic. Loved seeing all the moves my little Mermaids have learnt this year.” 

– Jeanette