Our rehearsal schedule is NOT organized according to which performance a given class is in; it is organized more by age groupings from youngest to oldest classes, so look carefully to see when your class is rehearsing (some students will need to be at 2 of the 3 rehearsals).  Our goal is to begin all rehearsals on time, so if your dancer is late, she/he might miss the rehearsal of one or more of her/his dances.  For the first rehearsal specifically for the youngest classes, parents should remain on site because their dancer might be finished within 30 minutes or even less.  NO DANCER IN THE 2^nd OR 3rd REHEARSALS IS TO GO IN THE DRESSING AREAS UNTIL THE PRECEDING REHEARSAL IS COMPLETED; INSTEAD, SIT IN THE AUDIENCE AND QUIETLY WATCH THE PRECEDING REHEARSAL UNTIL IT IS OVER.  ABSOLUTELY NO FOOD OR DRINKS IN THE AUDITORIUM OR DRESSING AREAS EXCEPT WATER (Kirksville Public Schools policy) – if we see food or drink in the auditorium, you will be asked to remove it, thank you.  Again, being in the first rehearsal does not necessarily mean you are in the 1st performance, or in the second rehearsal in the 2nd performance, and so forth.  This rehearsal schedule will also be prominently posted at the Studio and on our web site.   

8:45 -10:00 a.m. Rehearsal Classes

Tuesday 5:15 “Pink” Class

Wednesday 3:15 “Pink” Class

Wednesday 5:00 “Pink” Class

Wednesday 5:40 “White” Class

PIM 1 Class

TAP CATS 1 Class

Adult Class

9:45 -11:00 a.m. Rehearsal Classes

PIM 2 Class            TAP CATS 2 Class

PIM 3 Class            TAP CATS 3 Class

PIM 4 Class            Hippity Hop Class

PIM 5 Class            Youth Hip Hop Class

Jr. Lyrical Class      Junior Hip Hop Class

Youth Ballet Class

11:00 -11:20 a.m. Rehearsal Classes

All Dancers Performing the Halftime Routine at the EDGE Competition

11:20 a.m. –12:50 p.m. Rehearsal Classes

PIM 6 Class                 TAP CATS 4 Class

PIM 7 Class                 Senior Lyrical Class

Adv. Hip Hop Class    4 Senior Solos

Adv. Ballet Class         Intermediate Ballet Class

Boys Class

1. “What Do You Like To Do In Summer?” (ballet shoes)– Tuesday 5:15 Crea. Move. Class; 9:00 Macon Campers
2. “River Flows In You”- Thursday 6:30 Intermediate Ballet Class
3. “Supercalifragilistic”- Peyton Cordray Solo
4. “America”- Thursday 8:15 Senior Lyrical/Contemporary
5. “Rockin’ Robin” (tap shoes)– Tuesday 4:30 Intro. To TAP CATS
6. “For Good”- Mikaela Schlueter Solo
7. “Footloose” (jazz shoes)– Tuesday 6:50 PIM 4/5 Class
8. “Twist Your Frown Upside Down”- Delaney Banner Solo
9. “Sugar Plum Fairy”- Thursday 7:20 Advanced Ballet/Pointe Class
10. “Let’s Get Loud”- Allie Yoder Solo
11. “Walking On Sunshine”- Lily Partin Solo
12. “If You’re Happy and You Know It” (ballet shoes)– Monday 5:05, Tuesday 5:15 and Thursday 5:15 Creative Movement/Pre-Dance Classes
13. “Vacation”- Tuesday 4:15 Youth Hip Hop Class
14. “What a Feeling”- Tuesday 7:40 PIM 6/7 Class students who were PIM 6’s in the Spring
15. “Don Quixote”- Kate Marshall Solo
16. “Music, Music, Music” (tap shoes)– Monday 5:45 Int.-Adv. Creative Movement/Pre-Dance Class
17. “Hold My Hand”- Emma Stanley Solo
18. “Knocking On Heaven’s Door” (jazz shoes)– Kirksville 5:30 and Kirksville 7:30 Dance Intensive Students
19. “Blessing” (ballet shoes)– Monday 6:30 PIM 2/3 Class students who were PIM 2’s in the Spring Showcase; Eva Sterup & Kirksville 1:15 Dance Intensive Students who were PIM 2’s in the Spring
20. “Surfin’ in the USA” (tap shoes)– Thursday 4:35 TAP CATS ¾ Class
21. “Home”- Millie Scruggs Solo
22. “Pocket Full of Sunshine” (tap shoes)– TAP CATS 1/2
23. “Classic Ballet”- Monday 4:00 Youth Ballet Class
24. “Take It to the Floor”- Tuesday 8:30 Senior Hip Hop Class
25. “Mack the Knife”- Jacob Carriker Solo
26. “Waltz of the Dolls”- Morgan Mullock Solo
27. “Sunshine and Summer Time” (jazz or ballet shoes)– Tuesday 5:55 PIM 1 Class; 1:00 Macon Dance Campers
28. “Color Blind”- Taylor Henness
29. “Summertime Jazz” (jazz shoes)– Kirksville 3:30 Dance Intensive Students
30. “Not About Angels”- Cynthia Willcox Solo
31. “Listen . .. “ (ballet shoes)– Monday 5:05 and Thursday 5:15 Creative Movement/Pre-Dance Classes; Macy Cleaver, Maggie Athon; 9:00 Macon Dance Campers
32. “When I Met You In the Summer”- Tuesday 7:40 PIM 6/7 Class
33. “Heal the World”- Tuesday 6:50 PIM 4/5 students who were in PIM 4 this spring; Kirksville 3:30 and 5:30 Dance Intensive Students who were PIM 4’s in the Spring Showcase
34. “Singin’ In the Rain”- Daniel Marshall solo
35. “Dance, Dance”-Monday 5:45 Int.-Adv. Creative Movement/Pre-Dance Class, Ansley Jackman, and Macon 1:00 Dance Camp
36. “Go Light the World”- Rachel Case Solo
37. “Four Swans”- Thursday 7:20 Advanced Ballet/Pointe Class
38. “Guns and Ships”- Sydney Graves
39. “Spice Up Your Life”- Monday 6:30 PIM 2/3 and Kirksville 1:15 Summer Dance Intensive students
40. “Gravity”- Randall Chambers Solo
41. “Surf’s Up” (jazz shoes)– Thursday 5:45 Junior Lyrical/Contemporary Class
42. “How Will I Know?”- Tuesday 7:40 PIM 6/7 Class students who were in PIM 7 in the Spring Showcase
43. 2016 Halftime Routine- All Dance Campers

Click here for the Macon 5:30 and 7:30 show order of show and costuming

    The following is important advanced information regarding the upcoming 30th Annual Spring Showcase that you should retain for future reference (the costume fee amounts, which are the same as the past several years, and the costume payment deadline date are IN GREEN immediately below because they are the most urgent at this time):

COSTUME FEES (costume fee payment final deadline date is Thursday, April 21 – EARLIER PAYMENT is most appreciated!!
Keep in mind you can now go online at dancestudioofkirksville.com and pay with your credit card through PAY PAL):
*PLEASE PAY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE ALL COSTUMES HAVE BEEN ORDERED AND PAID FOR AND MOST ARE
READY FOR DISTRIBUTION; ALL COSTUMING CHARGES FOR OUR STUDIOS ARE ON OUR CREDIT CARD, THANK YOU!!
All PEOPLE IN MOTION Classes:  $49.50 plus shipping and sales tax = $59.50
Mon. 5:15, Wed. 3:15 and Wed. 5:00 “pinks”; Wed. 5:35 “whites”: $39.50 plus shipping and sales tax = $47.50
Mon. 3:40 and Thurs. 8:35 Musical Theater:  $37.50 plus shipping and sales tax = $44.50
Tues. 3:45 “For Boys Only”; All Hip Hop Classes:  $29.50 plus shipping and sales tax = $34.50
Thurs. 3:50 Dance Team Prep:  rental of $14.50
Wed. 4:00 Youth Ballet, Wed. 7:40 Int. Ballet, Thurs. 7:35 Advanced Ballet: rental of $12.50
All TAP CATS; Thurs. 3:50 Dance Team Prep:  No fee
Tues. 8:05 LEAPS & TURNS:  N/A
 
IMPORTANT DATES:
April 4-7 – Spring Showcase ticket order forms will be distributed in classes
Thursday, April 21 – Costume fee payment deadline date and last date to submit ticket order form to ensure unlimited numbers of tickets
Monday, May 2 – PHOTO DAY (detailed information will be handed out later)
Saturday morning, May 7 – REHEARSAL at Middle School Auditorium (you need to attend rehearsal – detailed schedule will follow)
Saturday evening, May 7 – Annual Spring Showcase at Kirksville Middle School Auditorium (Baldwin Auditorium on the Truman State
University campus is not available after mid-April for non-campus events)
Early Show for Mon. 5:15, Wed. 3:15 & Wed. 5:00 ‘Pinks”; Wed. 6:15 PIM 1 & Tues. 5:05 PIM 2 Classes; TAP CATS 1 Class;
and Tues. 5:50 Hippity Hop Class begins at 5:30 p.m (dancers arrive at 5:15 p.m.; doors open at 5:05 p.m.)
Later Show for all classes not specified in the Early Show immediately above begins at 7:30 p.m. (dancers arrive at7:15 p.m.;
doors open at 7:05 p.m.) – note: the Wed. 5:35 Int.-Adv. Pre-Dance Class is performing in the first half of the later show.
BOTH SHOWS for Mon. 8:00 PIM 7, Mon. 6:35 TAP CATS 4, Mon. 7:10 Adv. Hip Hop; Thurs. 8:35 Musical Theater Classes
(see arrival and performance times above)

TICKETS:
All tickets to the performance will again be $5 (children age 3 and under are free; there is no limit to the number of tickets you can order if
your ticket order form is received by Thursday, April 21; after that date, there will be a limit based upon remaining availability)

CLASS ATTENDANCE:
Please be sure that your students get to all remaining classes to ensure they learn the dance(s) they are performing (if a student has
missed too many classes and does not know their dance(s), we would not want to put them in an uncomfortable performance situation).

Finally, I want to personally thank you for the commitment you have demonstrated to your students and the Studio throughout the year.  Our Studio truly has the best parents and a family atmosphere second to none! 

We are entry #25 in the 2015 Truman Homecoming Parade this Saturday, October 10. 

THE DANCE STUDIO’S 28th Annual Winter Performance is this Saturday (Minis- at 5:30 p.m., main show at 7:30 p.m.) and will feature some of the most fantastic dancing ever performed by local dancers, including TAP CATS 4’s “Sing, Sing, Sing!

THE DANCE STUDIO’S PEOPLE IN MOTION DANCERS brought the house down in their halftime performances at the Harlem Wizards vs. Kirksville Tigers Celebrity Basketball Game Saturday, October 4.

On August 7, 2014, five Dance Studio Dancers traveled to Kansas City to participate in the Kansas City Ballet’s Dancer for a Day program.

The students were able to do the following:

• Took a dance class with Dance Studio alumna Miss Skyler Taylor as our teacher and Mrs. Linda Martin as our pianist
• Saw the Kansas City Ballet professional company dancers taking a ballet class (they are very talented, wonderful dancers!)
• Read a story, Dance Away, by George Shannon and then learned the rabbit’s dance from the story. We also made the story more exciting by adding music (East St. Louis Toodle—oo by Steely Dan) and instrument sounds.
• Choreographed our own dance steps for “waking up” music (Marcia funebre from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mendelssohn), “joyful” music (Overture from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mendelssohn), “angry” music (Ritual Fire Dance by de Falla) and “grouchy” music (Capriccio Brillante on the Jota Aragonesa by Glinka.
• Took a tour of the Bolender Center and explored the costume shop where we saw costumes for many different dancers and characters and also learned about the kinds of shoes that dancers wear