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

For more than two decades more than a thousand student enrollments have occurred for our popular Summer Dance Camps/Intensives. For more informatuon and to enroll online, go to Schedules/Registration

For the seventh consecutive year students from our Studio won the most first place and overall awards at the 2014 WOF Festival of Dance in which more than 300 dancers from throughout the Midwest competed. Our award winners were as follows:

Winner of Age 6-under Group Ballet
Winner of Age 7-9 Group Ballet
Winner of Age 7-9 Group Jazz
Winner of Age 13-15 Group Jazz
2nd Place Age 6-under Tap
2nd Place Age 7-9 Jazz
2nd Place Age 10-12 Open
3rd Place Age 10-12 Jazz