Family policies

We ask your written permission before we share any photo of your child, on this site, in newsletters or on social media, and you can change your answer at any time. We never put a child's name with a photo, and the photos on this site are examples until we replace them with our own.

Parents and guardians watch from the front room, which has a window onto Studio A. On the last Saturday of each month the studio holds a watch day, and families sit along the wall for the classes. On other days the door stays closed so dancers can hear their teacher. Seating at the spring showcase is open.

Phones stay in bags during class. A teacher may ask a dancer to film a short combination so the dancer can practice it at home, and that video stays on the dancer's phone. Please don't film other dancers in class, and don't post a video that shows another family's child. At the showcase, families may film their own dancer from their seats for themselves. We ask your written permission before we share any video of a dancer ourselves.

Wear clothes you can move in: a T-shirt, joggers or shorts, and clean sneakers that only come out inside the studio. Breaking classes also work on the floor, so many dancers bring knee pads, which are optional. Hair is tied back off the face, and jewelry stays home or in a bag. Crew shirts and showcase pieces are fitted in person, never on the website.

Please keep your dancer home with a fever, vomiting or diarrhea, and until they have been well for a full day. If something hurts, tell the teacher before class and we will change what the dancer does that day.

Dancers 13 and up may arrive and leave on their own when a parent or guardian says so on the registration page. Dancers 10 to 12 are collected by a named grown-up, and a teacher waits at the door until they are. The front door opens 15 minutes before the first class of the day, and we ask for ID from anyone we haven't met.

Message the studio when a dancer will miss a class, and we will tell you how to make it up in another class of the same age group. A dancer who arrives after the warm-up joins quietly. Later than that, we ask you to come back next class.

We close for Thanksgiving week, for the winter holidays and for one week in spring that follows Detroit's schools. When the schools close for snow we close, and we text every family that morning. A class lost to weather is made up with an extra class later in the session.