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Class etiquette

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• No Street shoes on the studio floor.  No exceptions!  Remove your shoes at the door, and bring them IN with you.  Place them just inside the door in the shoe cubby.  When leaving, take your shoes out with you.
• All personal items should be placed inside a cubby shelf, or hung on a coat-hook.  Anything left out will be placed inside a cubby shelf or coat hook.
• If making up a class, do not ask questions or clarification that will slow the class down.  The class must not be held back because you missed the information presented in former classes.

• No observers allowed in the class.  This includes your partner/spouse, parent, photographer or best friend visiting from out-of-town.  If you are in the class, you should be dancing (or babysitting).  If you are sitting out because you are feeling tired, that is acceptable.  Or if you are a couple minutes early, and a class is before you, that is acceptable.  Just no outside observers.
• Please don't bring your dinner to class.  Chocolates at the END of class are quite welcome, but let's try to save snacks for AFTER we dance.  FYI, you will have a better experience if don't eat within an hour of dancing.
• No Gum-chewing while dancing.
• If you want to participate in a performance, you need to be at the rehearsals before the performance. Participation in a performance requires that you know all of the steps and are able to accurately execute those movements in time with the music without following other classmates or the instructor at least one week before the time of the show.  Enrollment in a performance series does not guaruntee participation in the show if the above requirements are not met.

• Students are asked NOT to correct other students in movement.  If you see someone doing a movement differently what is being instructed for a performance piece, you may address it to the teacher, but not to the class member.  If someone is the wrong place in line, please do not physically pull them into place.

It is important to have a supportive, safe, non-competitive, environment where dancers can express all that they are.  We are interested in pushing our own boundaries and daring to do things in a new and different way.  For this reason, it is very important that we keep negative comments to ourselves.  I ask that you do not participate in gossip or criticism of other dancers.  We can always find something wrong or something to pick on, but doing so only brings more negativity into your own experience. I challenge you to actively search for things you love in the other dancers.   The place that you come to dance, to nurture your body, to take time for SELF should be kept sacred.  it is vital that we don't find ourselves creating cliques that exclude others, or building a negative perspective of our experience.  I believe we are all here for different reasons, and we are all doing our very best. Let us choose to invest our positive energy and love and honor into this experience.  Let's take care of each other by showing support. 

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With Love,
Sera Solstice

Founder and Director

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