Happy New Year

Last post was in September, and that shows you what a busy and happy semester it has been at the studio. Our dancers at the Holiday Bowl had a wonderful time. I've got new songs, great dances and can't wait to get started on our spring performance "iDance".

Here we go again!

Getting ready for season 37 at Vivette's Dance Studio!

Saying good by to 8 graduating seniors this year will be bittersweet, but watching them on their journey from Bitties to beautiful, accomplished young ladies has been sweet!

Some new little ones are starting down that path this year, have met most of them, can't wait to meet the rest!

New paint in Miss V's room will be worth some oooh's and ahh's, and will the new look of the old sofa soon, no more slipcovers!

8 more days, can hardly wait!

What a year!

It was a fabulous year, a little crazy, well okay....a lot crazy; but all in all it was great!

Turns and Leaps, etc

Turns and Leaps class is for anyone! It's a drop in class Thursdays 4-5. This week we had a 17 yr old, a 15 yr old and an 8 yr old. It was a great class!

Schedule is up on the website, take a look, let's hear some feed back. Love it, hate it, change it?

Beach Baby Mini Camp starts this week. It should be quite fun! Need to finish up my planning and to do's for this today. Got the snacks, just have to package. Got the crafts, just have to make sample, etc. Got the beach balls, all blown up! Got the pool! Got the song, need to tweak the choreography since all dancers enrolled are 3 yr olds.

A few Photos

I'm Back!

After nearly a year of neglecting this blog, I'm back to try again to keep it current!

June classes are going with Primary 1 Combo, Primary 2 Combo, Tech, Pre-Pointe, Turns and Leaps, Miss Michelle's Pom, Miss Michelle's Intro to Drawing and Belly Dance. Lots of Fun!

I'm continuing to work on the "Costume Closet Project" trying to organize, catagorize and clean out the closet.

Chelle and I are meeting tonight to try to put together the 2010-11 schedule, hope we have your forms!

Almost ready!

It's almost that time! Time for the studio to re-open. Since I couldn't go to Teacher Training I've been working my way through the new ballet syllibus (syllibi?) on DVD. My shoulder lets me do most things, just reminds me now and then.

Getting some great ideas for songs/dances...so much music to choose from, Broadway is "huge".

Benefits of Dance Pt 1

Among the individual benefits of studying dance are Confidence and Self-Esteem, Listening Skills, Self-Discipline, Sense of Accomplishment, Persistance, Accuracy, and being open to new ideas.

You can easily see how these skills can translate over to "real life" situations like school and work.

performance pics

We performed at Drury Place and Sterling House Kirwin after recital.

Dancing Dancers and a non dancing teacher

I'm the non-dancing teacher because I'm on crutches again due to vertical tear in my left knee. Not sure entirely what that means but seeing a new ortho tomorrow so will find out soon.

My dancers are so wonderful! We performed our winter dances at Drury Place on Jan 3. The bitties, prek,beginner,and primary 1 dancers were joined by a few Starfeet Dancers.

Starfeet Dancers performed at Holiday Resort on Jan. 25 in costume. Senior Stars were missing two dancers from Fashionista and that kind of threw them off but everyone did their dances well. It was good to have a dress rehearsal. Anna Stanley took photo's of each group so I'll post when I have a computer back. CompuDoc is repairing mine at the moment.

Getting closer

Opening day is getting closer and closer. I've been choreographing fun dances for us all and working on our across the floor passes in jazz, lots of new stuff to learn.

Open house and dancewear sale this Sat 1-5pm. See ya!

2 more weeks!

Only 2 more weeks until the studio opens again for our 34th season! Yesterday I choreographed a fun dance to "Fabulous" for our beginner dancers, and I can't wait to start teaching my MiniStars and RisingStars their new dances!

Painting the studio

We had a good time painting Studio A. Starting masking at 9:00, finished cleaning tools and eating lunch at 1:00...record time! The Studio looks so nice and fresh! Floor has a little paint on it, but tap shoes should take care of that!

A big thank you to Katie, Abby, Sarah, Lara, Jessie, Michelle, Lisette and Erin for all the help.

Last week of summer classes!

This is the last week of summer classes. We have had a lot of fun this summer! We've learned some new dances and improved our technique. New pointe shoes are being broken in each week in our summer pre-pointe/pointe class. Exciting!

I'll be painting studio A on Monday, Aug. 4th. I plan to get started around 9am. Any help is appreciated during the day. The studio will be open by appointment during August, so please call to see if I'm there before driving over.

Dancewear sales are Saturday, August 9, 23 and 30 from 1pm-5pm. Please try to come in during these times to order shoes so that the 1st week of classes are devoted to dancing not shoe buying.

Photo's

Photo's are in, emails have been sent out, still have quite a few photo's and trophies to be picked up. Summer hours are Mon & Wed 4pm-7pm, Tue and Thur 4pm-9pm

Check out www.salinafyi.com click on arts and entertainment, dance and there we are!

Fire dancing

I saw lots of our dancers at the Festival. I forgot to take my camera home from studio or I'd post pictures.

I loved the firedancers! They were so graceful and made the fire seem an extenstion of their bodies. If you didn't stay until 9:45 Friday and Saturday, you missed a real treat!

Recital update

Recital was fantastic! All the dancers had a great time, showed off their dances and the audience seemed to love both shows. Above are backstage photo's of the Thur P1 dancers in "Clouds" and the Monday P2 dancers in "Noches de San Miquel". On Wed, May 29th, we had a party from 5:00-7:00 at the studio, dancers watched the DVD of the 1:00 and part of the 4:00 recital, enjoyed some refreshments and picked up their trophies. We will send out postcards when the photo's are in.

Summer classes begin June 2nd.

Last week!

I can't believe it's the last week of 2007-8, and that recital is only 7 days away. What a year!

New office staff, new teachers, Nutcracker, 4 competitions, Dancers for Cancer ($4000 raised!). It's been hectic but great!

Oklahoma City and new Teacher

We have a new teacher at VDS! Miss Jennifer has had to resign due to pregnancy complications and Miss Rachel Bouza is stepping in to take over her classes. Miss Rachel is a sophmore at Bethany College, and a member of the dance team.

Starfeet and I are off to Oklahoma City for our 1st competition of the season! We looked pretty good at Drury Place so I'm confident all will dance well on the big stage at Rose State College.