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.

Jan 2008

Our studio after 7 inches of snow. Took Sid, Lisette and I 2 hours to shovel that parking lot with 2 shovels and a snow blower!

1st annual alumni reunion. From Right: Rhyanna, Miranda, Lisette, Paula, Bethany... not pictured Jenni Watts.





Up dates:
All costumes have been ordered for our spring recital.


New winter/spring term classes are starting 3rd week of Jan.


Competition kids are getting excited about our 1st competition of this season.


We will be performing our Holiday dances and our Starfeet dances at Drury Place on Jan. 12th.

Open House and Dancewear Sale

Open House and Dancewear Sale
Friday August 10 5-8pm
Sat August 11 12-5pm
Sun Aug 12 12-3pm
Sat Aug 18 1-5pm
Sun Aug 19 1-3pm

See you there!

Fall Registration

I've mail all the registration forms out to previously enrolled students and to those on the mailing list. I'm noticing some trends in the requests, with lots of people requesting the same time slot, so if it's important to you to be in a particular time slot....MAIL IN YOUR FORM! First recieved gets the space.

I'm having fun choreographing our new songs! I'm sure you'll like them too.

Here are our summer bitties dancing with our "Grand Old Flag"

Summer classes

Summer classes begin with Monday's Princess and the Pea Monday Funday class. Reg classes begin on Tues. Looking forward to it! See you all soon

Let's Try this again...

Okay, so it's a great idea to have a studio blog, but you actually have to have time to write it...which I haven't since I decided to start it. I'm going to try to be better at this!

Studio news:
1) Dancers for Cancer raised $2500.00 for the Tammy Walker Cancer Center
2) 1st day of photo's went well, 2nd day had to be cancelled due to storms, flooding etc. Rescheduled for Friday May 11th 5:30pm-9pm.
3) Show at Drury Place on Sat May 12th at 4pm.
4) Jr's and Sr's rehearse at 7pm at Central on May 21st
5) All other dancers rehearse Friday May 25
6) Recital is Sat May 26th at 1pm and 4pm.

Starfeet Photos

December 16th we performed at Bethany College's Half-time with Jr Star's "Hero" and Claire performing "Bop to the Top". The audience loved both dances!

Good news and Bad

Good news! Adult student Cindy Cox tells me that their case has gone through the courts successfully and she and her husband are officially the parents of triplet boys! They leave for Eithiopia on the 15th to pick them up! Congrats x three! If anyone wants to contribute diapers bring them to the studio and we'll get them to her.


Bad News: Our Miss Taylor must leave us for a while as her fiance has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and she must move to Nevada to care for him through surgeries. Apprentice teacher Miss Diedre will take over her classes under my direction. Our prayers and wishes are with Miss Taylor and her fiance for a successful recovery.







Thanks to MidAmerica Awards my van now sports our studio logo. Sharp looking, isn't it!

Sun Nov 5

Okay, so I'm not doing much with this blog yet, but I intend to....right after I'm back on both feet!

Today's Nutcracker rehearsals are cancelled as I simply am not up to it yet. My leg is still wrapped up like a mummy, and every little bump hurts like crazy. But, this morning I was able to move around enough to make my own oatmeal and tea, take a spongebath and get to the computer. I can rest it on the ground for seconds with out pain, so I think when the wrap comes off tomorrow, I'll make great progress every day.

Friday the 13th!

Uncle Jerry's Fundraiser due in by 5pm tonight! Miss Jackie and I will be there at 3:30.

Nutcrackrer rehearsals tonight and Sat morning.

Nutcracker!

Nutcracker rehearsals start tomorrow! See the Moscow Ballet page on the website for rehearsal information.