• Come prepared. This includes the appropriate dress, shoes, and grooming for participating in your class. Please have your hair tied away from your face.

• Please leave food and drinks out of the dance space. Water bottles are OK.

• Don’t chew gum in the dance space. It’s can bother those around you and is unsafe to do while you’re dancing.

• Keep studio shoes for in the studio. Never wear dance shoes outside the studio or wear street shoes inside the studio.

• Turn off and stow your cell phone. You have no use for your device during class. Completely silence it by turning it off – not simply setting it to vibrate – so that it will not disrupt class from your bag.

• Our motto is early is on time, on time is late. Please don’t arrive late. If this cannot be avoided, enter the class very quietly.

• Don’t leave class early. If you cannot avoid making an early exit, talk to the teacher before class. If your exit is an emergency, do so as quickly and discreetly as possible.

• While the teacher is talking, no talking – not even a whisper. Thank you!

• Be attentive at all times. Help class move along for everyone by staying attentive in line as you wait your turn.

• Use good posture. Don’t slouch or hang on the barre (or anywhere else) and be aware of negative body language (like folded arms). After all, dance is about using your body to express a beautiful art form.

• Pay attention, participate and follow your teacher’s directions. Listen before asking questions. When you do ask questions, make sure that they are necessary and relevant.

• Be respectful of others. Allow them the same opportunity you have to learn and participate and space to do it in. The best way to achieve this is to exhibit the Golden Rule at all times.

• Pick up after yourself – trash that you generate or that you see. Respect the dance studio/space by keeping it clean and neat. Make sure your clothes and other personal items are neat and in the appropriate place when you’re in class and when you’re not.