Early School

Pick Up and Drop Off

Instructor will meet dancers right outside of the Early School entrance on Chalmers Field. Please make sure your dancer is changed and ready to go to class by 2:55 p.m.

Instructor will bring dancers back to the same location, Chalmers Field, for pick up at 4:00 p.m.

Class Time

Dancers will walk into the dance room with their teacher. Parents are not permitted in the dance room during the class sessions unless the teacher has scheduled an observation day or needs assistance with costumes.

Kindergarten through Grade 5

Pick Up and Drop Off

Dance students will meet at the club meeting locations and an Instructional Assistant or Dance Instructor will escort the dancers to the appropriate dance studio. Plan to pick up your dancer in the PAC parking lot near the rock fountain by the Performing Arts Center (PAC). If you are running late your child will be escorted to Extended Day. Fees will apply.

Class Time

Dancers will change in the PAC dressing rooms or Lower School bathrooms. If your child needs assistance changing, as most dancers in Kindergarten to Grade 2 do, please practice with them how to put on their leotards and leggings. Teachers are not allowed to help dancers get dressed. Dancers will walk into the dance room with their teacher. Parents are not permitted into the dance room during the class sessions unless the teacher has scheduled an observation day or needs assistance with costumes.

YES for Early School students! Children MUST be signed out of the Early School by a parent per California Law, no exceptions.

NO for Lower School students. Children will be escorted to the dance room by a teacher or afternoon staff member.

Early School through Kindergarten

GIRLS

Black leotard, black leggings, pink ballet shoes and black tap shoes

BOYS

White T-Shirt, black fitted athletic pants, black jazz pants or black fitted athletic shorts. Black ballet shoes and black tap shoes

Grades 1 through 5

GIRLS

Black leotard, black leggings

Ballet/Lyrical - Pink ballet shoes, tan jazz shoes

Jazz/Tap - Tan jazz shoes and black tap shoes

BOYS

White T-Shirt, black fitted athletic pants, black jazz pants, black fitted athletic shorts

Ballet/Lyrical - Black ballet shoes, black jazz shoes

Jazz/Tap - Black jazz shoes and black tap shoes

Dance Uniforms can be purchased at www.discountdance.com or at Dancer’s Choice in Aliso Viejo. 

Girls - Bun for Ballet, Ponytail for Tap and Jazz

Boys - Combed back neatly for class

Saturday, April 26, 2025 or tbd - 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the Hurlbut Theater

The Spring Concert will be a fully produced dance show and will highlight students in a formal performance along with selected Middle and Upper School performers for inspiration of our younger students. Dance instructors will purchase costumes for the event and performers will dance in the Hurlbut Theater. Dance photographs will be taken for the Spring Concert, and offered online after the show.

Saturday, December 7, 2024 or tbd – 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the Hurlbut Theater

This performance will highlight students’ techniques and combinations. This gives dancers an opportunity to practice dancing in a more informal setting prior to their formal performance in the spring. Note: Students will wear their classroom uniform for this concert.