Happy Holidays! Wishing you and your family the very best this season. We enjoy the opportunity to work with your family and love teaching your children!
SAFER STUDIO GUIDELINES: Thank you for continuing to follow the guidelines and helping us to remain a Safer Studio. Parents, thank you for keeping kids home if they are not well, and for your enhanced efforts to practice good hygiene. As we are going into regular cold and flu season, it is important that we continue our combined efforts to follow these guidelines. Please continue to monitor your children and do not send them to class if they have a fever, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, runny nose, etc. Sending a child with symptoms to class in a mask is not an acceptable solution. Please keep children home when they are sick. We appreciate your enhanced awareness and efforts in keeping our students and faculty healthy.
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Your feedback is of the utmost importance to Studio 56 Dance Center & Little Learners Preschool. We are constantly striving to provide the ideal experience for our studio families, and your input helps us to define that experience. If you ever have any concerns or suggestions, please email us @ info@studio56dance.com. Thank you!
JAN 16 FROZEN FRIEND DANCE CAMP
Who has a kiddo that loves Frozen? Register to attend our Frozen Friends Camp and we will give you an elegantly wrapped box with an ice blue tutu and special invitation to put under the tree this Christmas
HERE ARE THE DETAILS:
- When: January 16th, 10:30-12:00
- Where: Studio 56 Dance Center, West Murray location
- To purchase tickets: https://forms.gle/eDwsJsXYgqMKW9SVA
- *Space is limited; availability will be a 1st come 1st serve, no refunds or exchanges.
- Gift boxes will be available for pick up Dec 12-16 @ West Murray
CLICK HERE to register your dancer for our Frozen Camp!
Dec 17: CHRISTMAS COOKIE SOCIAL
Our in-studio Christmas Cookie Social offers students a low-key, fun, and simple performance that allows them to get time in front of an audience to help them become more comfortable performing! Participation includes a cookie (of course), and a simple costume accessory rental (skirt, tutu, hat, etc.) given to dancers when they arrive. Stars dancers will wear their class uniform as their base costume. Preschool/Pre-K dancers need a black leotard for their base costume.
- Participation is $30 and families will sign up online for a show time.
- Free admission for up to 2 spectators per participant.
- Tumbling classes, Tiny Tots, and Diaper Dancers do not participate in the Holiday Performance.
- CLICK HERE to see if your child is registered to attend.
- CLICK HERE to practice your choreography at home.
Register today by logging into the parent portal selecting enroll in a class, picking the Workshop/Special Event season, clicking forward to December 17th, and selecting a time slot for your child’s age and genre. From there follow the prompts and make sure to continue all the way through the checkout page to finalize your event registration.
DEC 9 – LAST DAY TO TURN IN PAJAMAS AND BOOKS FOR OUR WINTER SERVICE PROJECT
Our annual pajama and book drive is going on now! Our project will help support Utah Foster Care and several other local Utah charities. We are collecting new pajamas and books at both studios until December 10th. We hope you will join us in this cause!
So many of us have grown up with the tradition of opening up a new pair of pajamas every Christmas Eve. Kids love pajamas! We felt like giving pajamas to other children was a way to help even our youngest dancers grasp the concept of giving. We have been collecting pajamas and books for the Utah Foster Care Foundation and several other local charities every year since. They are always so excited to see us and so grateful for new jammies right in time for the holidays! This event has been a wonderful way to create more holiday spirit in our students and share a little dancing joy at the same time!
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
- Donate new books and pajamas size preemie to adult. Drop donations off at the studio. Items can be handed to any teacher at pick up or drop off next time you are at the studio.
- We are also collecting monetary donations which will go towards more jammies and books! Bring in cash or Venmo donations to @danceforlife and include the dancers name so the amount can go toward their service society recognition!
- Invite others to donate! We want to involve as many people in our community as we can. Share this letter with families and friends this holiday.
What is Service Society? The pajama and book drive is our “Winter Project” and an opportunity for dancers to qualify to become a member of the “Studio 56 Dance Service Society.” To meet the qualifications for Service Society, a dancer needs to donate 10 pairs of pajamas, or 20 books, or $50 in cash donations. We will also accept a combination of the three donations (ex. 5 pjs and 10 books). We want to encourage students to put their hearts into this by asking friends and family to get involved and donate towards our project. Students who meet the donation requirements will be recognized for their service with a certificate. These credentials will acknowledge their involvement in a good cause and will look amazing on future college scholarship applications and resumes! We are so excited to have a program within our studio to help teach our students the importance of service and community involvement! To get credit for your donations be sure to fill out the form on the clipboard next to the donation box!
DEC 12-16: HOLIDAY SPIRIT WEEK!
Let’s have some fun and get into the Christmas spirit! December 12-16 will be Christmas spirit week for our development and Company classes! See below for our fun dress-up themes and activities this week! Prizes will be given for creativity and stand-out outfits throughout the week.
DEC 2 PARENTS NIGHT OUT – DROP AND SHOP
We have SO MUCH fun at our event called Parent’s Night Out! Mark your calendar for your DECEMBER DATE NIGHT and we will take the kids…Friday, December 2nd from 6-10 pm!! We have lots of fun activities planned for the kids and you can enjoy a night out child-free! Only $25 per child ages 3 and up (must be potty trained). We will be serving Pizza @ 6:30 pm.
Sign up in your parent portal or use our quick form on our website.
DEC 20 – JAN 2: STUDIO CLOSED FOR WINTER BREAK
We hope you all have a wonderful December! Our schedule stays the same when we return on January 3rd. The classes you are currently registered for will continue through June 2023. NOTE: We charge the same amount every month for convenience and consistency to our families. Holidays and studio closures are factored into the season’s tuition amount and is then broken into even monthly payments.
We are starting to plan for our year-end Concert (June 17) and Tumbling Exhibition (June 7). Please make sure you’ve filled out the consent form to participate.
Concert costumes must be ordered months in advance, so we’re moving forward to continue using the end-of-year performance as a tool to build confidence and provide a sense of accomplishment to our students- even if that still has to look a little differently than we would like it to. We hope you’ll join us in this celebration of a successful year of hard work!
We’ve already been busy this past month getting dancers sized for costumes and now we’re getting ready to place orders over the next few weeks!
If you have not submitted your form, you can do that here: https://app.hellosign.com/s/4JWOHLlX
If you need to review the information, the parent guide includes all performance details.
Not sure if you have registered for the concert? You can see your concert registration by logging into your online account.
- Click account login
- Click the drop down menu (hamburger icon) in the top left corner
- View all my classes
- There you will see the enrollment for concert pay in full or 7 installments
- First installment payments for the concert process on December 1st or upon consent if after the 1st.
Not sure what Concert is all about? Click here to see our highlight video!
FOR PARENTS OF SCHOOL AGED TUMBLING STUDENTS | Superman – Straddle
We want you to join us in our monthly strength and stretch challenge! Each month we have a new challenge we are working on. You can print it out and track your progress at home. In the last week of the month, we will “test” our students in class and see if they can meet the goals for their age!
CLICK HERE for this Month’s Challenge
FOR PARENTS OF PRESCHOOL DANCERS
We are excited to have a new theme each month just for preschool dancers! This month our theme is “From My Heart to Yours“ We will be singing and dancing to holiday tunes while working on our routine for the holiday show. We encourage you to get involved and have them practice their skills at home! This month we are focusing on gallops, head isolations, 6th position, shoulder isolations, toe touches, and sharing.
HOLIDAY GIFTS
We can help you out this time of year! Great stocking stuffers could be new tights or dance shoes! We have limited studio beanies, hoodies, and water bottles available on our ONLINE STORE!
Shop online and pick it up at the studio the next time you are in!
HIP HOP CLASSES- SHOE POLICY
With winter weather approaching, we must remind you that we CANNOT have wet, salty, muddy shoes on our dance floor. Please carry your hip-hop shoes into the studio and change into them before you enter the classroom. You will be asked to dance with no shoes if you don’t have a dry pair! Thank you!
ONLINE CALENDAR!
We have a calendar on the website! Please refer to it for Holiday closures and studio events. If you use Google Calendar, you can copy studio events directly into your calendar by clicking on the “add google calendar” in the bottom right corner of the calendar. https://studio56dance.com/portal/
TEXT REMINDERS
Stay up to date on current events! Reminder texts are sent out for closures and special events. Please make sure the primary phone number listed on your account is one that can receive texts.
ONLINE PARENT PORTAL
The account you created online can be updated at any time. Log in on the website to update contact and billing information, register for new classes, and make payments. You can also reset your password at any time. https://studio56dance.com/portal/
