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 following the guidelines and helping us 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. Keep children home when they are sick. We appreciate your enhanced awareness and efforts in keeping our students and faculty healthy.
Tis the season! We have placed a stocking for each of our staff in our lobbies. If you and your child would like to give a card or gift to their teacher, or our office staff they are welcome to put it in their stocking!
If you've forgotten your teacher's name, CLICK HERE and select the tab for the program in which your child is enrolled in.
Thanks in advance for thinking of our team and for your continued support!! Happy Holidays!
GIFT OF DANCE CERTIFICATES: Every student is receiving an envelope with a $25 gift certificate for tuition to gift to a friend who is not a current student at the studio. We hope this helps you check a gift off your list, and we look forward to having them join our dance family. You will also get a referral credit for $20 when they bring in their gift of dance certificate! If you need any additional certificates, just let us know! Thank you for your continued support and for playing an important role in making Expressions Dance and Preschool a wonderful place to be!
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Your feedback is of the utmost importance to Expressions Dance & 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@dancetoexpress.com. Thank you!
DEC 7: IN-STUDIO HOLIDAY PERFORMANCE @ Centerville Studio
VIEW FINAL DETAILS AND PERFORMANCE TIMES HERE
We are working hard in classes getting ready for this year’s Holiday Performances! Our students are so excited to shine in front of their family and friends as they show off the results their dedication and progress so far this year. Please see below for your child’s arrival and performance time.
The performance will give each class 15-20 minutes of demonstration time. They will arrive 20 minutes before their performance to stretch and warm up. Each group will have time to demonstrate together as a class some of their favorite skills and songs and each class will get to showcase a fun holiday routine! At the conclusion of their class demonstration, dancers will receive a cookie and can take pictures with their teachers and supporters.
Bring your pajama and book donations to the performance! This will be the final day for donations so we can get them to Utah Foster Care to go in holiday care packages.
Not sure if you’ve signed up? It’s not too late! VIEW FINAL DETAILS AND PERFORMANCE TIMES HERE
If you want to get some last-minute practicing in, head to the practice folder HERE!
Barely Threes: Snowflakes, Snowflakes + I Saw Mommy
Preschool Dance/ACPS Insect classes: Is That You Santa Clause?
Pre-K Dance/ACPS Critters & Bears classes: Here Comes Santa Clause
Kinderstars: Up on the Housetop
All Stars: Let It Snow
Rising Stars: Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
Mega Stars: Nutcracker-Chinese Tea & Run Run Rudolph
Super Stars: Nutcracker-Spanish Chocolate & Santa Cool Cat
Hip Hop K1: Holiday
Hip Hop 2/3: Jingle Bells
Hip Hop Tween/Teen: This Christmas
DEC 16-20: STUDIO SPIRIT WEEK- WEAR HOLIDAY PAJAMAS
We are excited to celebrate our last week of 2024 classes with a studio-wide spirit week! Students can wear holiday pajamas to classes! Make sure you are able to move and participate safely in your classes- no footie pajamas!
DEC 20: PARENTS NIGHT OUT- DROP AND SHOP!
PARENT’S NIGHT OUT IS BACK! Send your kids in pajamas to have a great time while you squeeze in some last-minute Christmas shopping on Friday, December 20th from 6-10 pm at our Centerville location! We will wear them out just in time for bed! Cost is $20 per child and includes pizza for dinner! Ages 3+ and must be potty trained. You do not need to be a current student to come! Register by email or in your parent portal under special events HERE.
DEC 23-JAN 3: NO CLASSES FOR WINTER BREAK
We hope you all have a wonderful December! Our schedule stays the same when we return on January 6. The classes you are currently registered for will continue through May 2025. (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.)
JAN 4: FROZEN FRIENDS CAMP!
Who has a little one who 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! Only a few spots left!
When: January 4, 2025
Where: Expressions Dance, Bountiful location
To sign up, head here
RECITAL UPDATES:
Can you believe it, we are already preparing for our next big show! The Tumble Exhibition is May 16 & 17, 2025 and the year-end recital is May 31, 2025. Costumes must be ordered months in advance, so we’ve already started sizing dancers in classes and will be getting costumes ordered this month.
When starting class this season, you submitted the waiver that included details about our Recital. All students are automatically enrolled to participate in the year-end recital and/or the tumble exhibition.
The automatic performance deposit processed on Oct 15.
Installment amounts will be processed with tuition from November-MAY.
To see your child’s participation schedule, go to your parent portal HERE.
Select "View All My Classes" in the top left navigation.
Your child’s registration for events in which they are participating will show there.
If you have not submitted your form, you can do that here: https://app.hellosign.com/s/beLmPihu
If you need to review the information, the Parent Guide includes all performance details.
NOT SURE WHAT RECITAL IS ALL ABOUT? New knowledge and skills abound when it comes to preparing for the recital … and we’re not just talking about learning dance steps! There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to all of the advantages of recital participation. Check out some of the unique benefits your child will acquire that go beyond the performance itself HERE.
WINTER PROJECT: PAJAMAS AND BOOKS DUE BE DEC 7
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 8. We hope you will join us in this cause!
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!
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PAJAMA AND BOOK DRIVE HERE
DRESS CODE STICKER CHARTS
We are excited for our dress code incentive program! All students have received a sticker chart at their first class this week. This will need to stay in their bag and brought to dance each day. Every day they come to class in proper dress code including hair and all required shoes, they will receive a sticker! When they fill up their sticker chart, they will receive a dress to impress pin they can put on their dance bag! We hope this program will help make kids excited and motivated to follow the dress code and help be responsible at home with packing their bag.
FOR PARENTS OF SCHOOL AGED TUMBLING/ACRO STUDENTS
December Stretch of the Month- Straddle | Strength Challenge- Superman
We are so excited this year to have a “stretch of the month” and a “strength challenge” in our acro/tumbling classes! Encourage your child to work on these skills at home to help them improve even faster! Be more involved by printing off the at home practice tracker HERE.
HIP HOP CLASSES- SHOE POLICY: With winter weather approaching, we need to remind you that we CANNOT have wet, salty, muddy shoes stepping onto 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://www.dancetoexpress.com/parent-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 any time. https://www.dancetoexpress.com/parent-portal
STUDIO FACEBOOK GROUP: Join our studio Facebook group and be a part of our community HERE! Stay up to date on current events and connect with us!
BALLET WEST NUTCRACKER: It is a studio tradition to go to Ballet West's Nutcracker every year! This year we have five dancers cast in the Nutcracker! We will be attending as a studio on December 6 @ 7pm and/or @ Saturday, December 21 @ 2pm to support them! Tickets can be purchased HERE.
Congratulations to Gwenyth T, Sophee M, Kate B, and Camille C for being cast as soldiers! They will be performing 11/29-12/01 in Ogden, 12/6-12/8 at Capitol Theater.
Congratulations to Lily W for being cast as the Party Princess! She will be performing 12/17-22 at Capital Theater.
ODYSSEY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR: We are so thrilled to have Odyssey Dance Theater back in the community and to be joining them on the stage for their Holiday show on December 19th at 7:30pm GET TICKETS HERE
DEC 4: RHYTHM NATION TAP “JAZZY NUTCRACKER:” Our company dancers have been invited to participate in Utah’s Rhythm Nation Tap Company’s production of “A Very Jazzy Nutcracker” this year! This is an amazing honor for our studio. Extreme, Excite and Express get to perform in shows Wednesday, December 4 at 6pm and 8pm at the Valentine Theatre in American Fork. Buy tickets HERE.
2024-25 IMPORTANT ACADEMY PROGRAM DATES:
Dec 2-Dec 7: Last week to drop off pajama and book donations
Dec 7: Holiday Performance @ Centerville Studio FINAL DETAILS
Dec 16-20: Studio Spirit Week: Wear Holiday Pajamas
Dec 20: Parent’s Night Out! 6-10pm @ Centerville
Dec 23-Jan 4: Winter Break, no classes
Jan 4: Frozen Friends Dance Party (special event)
Jan 13-17: Studio Spirit Week: Wear Crazy Socks
Jan 13: Registration opens for Academic Preschool fall classes
Jan 20: MLK Day, no classes
Jan 27-Feb 14: Hearts for Hunger- Food & Sock Drive
Jan 27-31: Bring a Friend week (Academy Program)
Feb 3-7: Tiny Tots Transition to Independent Class
Feb 7: Parent’s Night Out- Valentine Party
Feb 8: Valentine Ball (special event)
Feb 10-14: Studio Spirit Week: Wear Pink to class
Feb 14: Hearts for Hunger- Food & Sock Drive ends
Feb 17: Presidents’ Day, no classes
Feb 21: Skipping Pass Off Party (for PS/PK dancers)
Feb 24-28: Bring a Teddy Bear to Dance Week (for Academy & ACPS PS/PK Dancers)
Mar 1: Registration opens for summer programs
Mar 11: Studio Spirit Week: Summer Dreamin’ (wear summer themed dress for class)
Mar 14: Academy Program: Glow Party (for school-aged students)
Mar 24-28: Ballerina Visits (in school aged classes)
Mar 28: Mom & Me Paint Night @ Ctvl
Mar 31-April 4: Spring Break, no classes
Apr 7: Rollover Rally Begins
Apr 7-11: Progress Reports go home (Academy Programs)
Apr 7-18: Parent Participation & Appreciation Week (Academy Programs)
Apr 12: Dad Practice for Recital
Apr 14: Pathways for Dancers Meeting
Apr 18: Rollover Rally Ends
Apr 19: Dad Practice for Recital
Apr 20: Rollover Membership is Processed
May 1: Recital Tickets on sale online, 9am
May 1-3: Costume Pick Up
May 2: Pre-K Skills Testing (celebrating accomplishments for our pre-k dancers)
May 3: Dad Practice for Recital
May 5-9: Teacher Appreciation Week
May 16 & 17: Tumbling Exhibition
May 19-23: Bring a Stuffie Week (Academy & Company)
May 23: Last day of classes
May 24: Dad Practice for Recital
May 26: Memorial Day, no classes
May 27-29: Picture Day & Dress Rehearsals @ Ctvl
May 29: Banana Split Party (special event)
May 30: Company Showcase @ Weber State
May 31: Recitals @ Weber State
June 2: Company Audition Parent Meeting, 6pm
June 2: Family Appreciation Pool Party, 7pm
June 3-5: Company Auditions for 2025-26