Studio Policies

Holidays

Vestavia Dance will be closed on the following dates:

Labor Day
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving Holiday
Christmas/ Winter Holidays
MLK Day
Presidents Day
Spring Break

Dance classes follow the Vestavia Hills City Schools (VHCS) calendar and closings on inclement weather days. If Vestavia schools are not in session, Vestavia Dance will not have class.

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Courtesy Code

To ensure a safe and respectful environment for all, we ask that students and parents follow these studio policies:
1. Please do not enter a dance studio while a class is in session without knocking first.
2. If you need to change clothes, use the downstairs restrooms.
3. Upstairs classrooms may not be used for homework, TV, or breaks.
4. No food or drinks are allowed inside the dance studios or on the stage.
5. Students ages 2 through 3rd grade must be dropped off and picked up at the studio by a parent or guardian. For safety, no student younger than 3rd grade will be dismissed without a parent or guardian present.

Dress Code

We want every dancer to feel comfortable and confident in class! Please have your dancer wear their hair up and secured neatly so it stays out of their face while dancing. For safety, we ask that no jewelry, watches, or phones be brought into class.
Dancers should wear form-fitting dancewear that allows teachers to see alignment and movement clearly. Large shirts and long pants can make dancing more difficult, so we recommend options like jazz pants, leggings, dance shorts, skirts, or dance dresses.

  • BALLET
    • Leotard – pink for pre-ballet students and black for everyone else, pink tights and pink ballet shoes (not slippers).
  • JAZZ
    • Leotard and tights any color and tan jazz shoes (any tan jazz shoe with a rubber heel will give us greater safety).
  • TAP
    • Leotard and tights any color with black tap shoes with staccato taps.
  • CLOGGING
    • Leotard and tights any color with white clogging shoes. Applause is a great local business for clogging shoes.
  • VDPC
    • Solid color dance attire for class and all black for choreography.
  • COMBO
    • Ballet & Jazz combo students need pink ballet shoes and tan jazz shoes. Ballet & Tap combo students need pink ballet shoes and black tap shoes. Ballet & Lyrical combo students need pink ballet shoes and tan lyrical shoes. All shoes should be labeled with name or initials written inside the shoes.
  • LYRICAL
    • Leotard and tights any color with tan lyrical shoes.
  • HIP HOP
    • Street clothes and tennis shoes. Your teacher may ask for a certain tennis shoe for the recital.