The following are the teams we intend to run for the 2026-2027 school year. These may change slightly after auditions this year. All placements are determined by the coaches after auditions. Decisions are final, however, student interest in teams will be taken into consideration when making decisions.‍ ‍

Age 4 to 6 (Beginner) **Only attends 2 competitions

• Beginner Hip-Hop/Jazz team ~ Miss Gemma and Miss Bailey

Age 7 to 11 (Novice) **Attends all 4 competitions

• Tap team ~ Miss Alina

• Hip-Hop team~ Miss Gemma

• Open/Folkloric team ~ Miss Gemma

Age 12 & up (Intermediate) **Attends all 4 competitions

• Tap team ~ Miss Alina

• Jazz team ~ Miss Alina

Mixed Ages (Intermediate/Advanced) **Attends all 4 competitions and MAY be eligible to attend Nationals

• Jazz team (age 13 & up) ~ Miss Gemma

• Hip-Hop team (age 12 & up) ~ Miss Gemma

• Modern/Contemporary team (age 13 & up) ~ Miss Gemma

• Acro/Lyrical team (age 10 & up) ~ Miss Alina    

• NEW THIS YEAR: Performance Team (all ages and levels) *Any student accepted onto any team may opt to add this as an additional team. Note, the performance team will do all the same competitions as the other teams plus several more performance opportunities.‍ ‍

We know that predicting the expenses of an activity like dance team can be confusing and overwhelming for families so we have tried to break it down into 3 easy, all-inclusive steps.

Step 1: $200 Deposit per team

Due upon commitment to the team

This is fully refunded at the end of the year upon completion of the team contract or you can choose to redirect it as a scholarship for students in need.

Step 2: Competition Flat Fee of $999 Per Team (note the 4-6 year old beginning team is lower ($799) because they only attend 2 comps.

Due over the summer (can be paid in full or broken into installments)

This includes competition entry fees to all 4 competitions (2 for our youngest team), your costumes, and your media fees, professional photography of your student in their group routine costume for team photo day, plus covers the cost of staff attending the competition and the admin hours that go into booking the competition.‍ ‍

Step 3: Tuition Fee of $199 Per Month Per Team

Due once per month as a subscription payment from August - June

This includes tuition for your team rehearsal and the required technique class, Friday Fun Days, Warriors Training Days, and all recital/photo fees required for any routines you are in for recital because of dance team or dance team required classes.

The following is not included in the fees above and are the responsibility of the student’s family:

• REQUIRED: Dance Team Jacket ($100) and Dance Team Custom Jersey ($80)

• REQUIRED: Tights, hair products, makeup, dance shoes, any accessories or props needed for your team.

• OPTIONAL: Recital fees (if you choose to be in additional recreational classes that perform in recital.

• OPTIONAL: Group outings after Friday Fun Day (movie tickets, potlucks etc)

• OTHER: Students MAY be asked to provide their own basics for some events such as plain black pants, shorts, leggings, tank tops, white shirts etc.

• OTHER: In order to attend the Warriors Game, there is a required number of tickets we need to sell, it may be as high as 10 - 15 tickets per student.

• INT/ADV TEAMS ONLY: All fees associated with Nationals in June for our most advanced teams. This info will be released ASAP but we anticipate it will be in the $450 range.

*Note: we build and budget our program with the knowledge of the number of students accepted on each team and anticipation of those fees throughout the year. A student that withdraws throughout the year for any reason is still responsible for making all payments through the end of the contract period.

If accepted onto a team you are committing to the following weekly commitment per team August - June: (rehearsal calendar and dates for Friday Fun Days coming soon)

• 1 Team Rehearsal per week (included in your tuition)

• The 2 - 3 technique and training classes required for that team (included in your tuition) See “Required and Additional Classes” below for details.

• 5 Friday Fun Days (we will schedule 7 but understand if you need to miss up to 2) *These are full run throughs of all your comp routines as a team, performed for invited staff and parents and used to build performance skills, teamwork and receive feedback. Afterwards all team members will be invited to join on team bonding activities such as movies, outings, parties, etc.

We do not call any classes or rehearsals on federal holidays and we take 1-2 week breaks for Thanksgiving, Winter Break and Spring Break.

Each week a dancer will be required to attend the following: 

• • Their Team Rehearsal (this is where your dancer will learn and refine their dance routine with their teammates) 

    • *Included in tuition

  • The Corresponding Technique Class (This is where your dancer trains the technique needed for their team, for example, a student on the Intermediate Tap Team would be required to attend an Intermediate Tap Technique class.  This is like the regular classes you have probably taken before however, since they are solely focused on technique and training, the dancers will advance faster and will not spend time working on recital performance pieces etc) 

    • *Included in tuition

  • Ballet Technique Class (This is a fundamental building block of making stronger dancers. 

    • Free to all Dance Team Students.  (Required) 

  • Strength and Conditioning (Strong, healthy bodies are the cornerstone of great dancers.  

    • Free to all Dance Team Students.  (Required for all except our youngest team) 

Want to try something else? Please do! Just because you aren’t on tap team doesn’t mean you can’t take a tap class! Sign up for as many additional technique and/or recreational classes as you want! All dance team members get 50% of all additional classes!  

Does your sibling or parent want to try a class? We’ll give them 50% of all additional technique and/or recreational classes too!  

• We are constantly working to improve and trying to listen to our community to do so.  Here are a few of the changes/additions we have made this year that we are excited about. 

  • Later call times : Our plan is to to set your call time to arrive for comps when you are needed (usually 2-3 hours before your scheduled routine time since comps often run VERY ahead of schedule), not hours and hours before.  

  • Schedules for comp released earlier : No one will be gatekeeping competition schedules from you, when we get them you will get them. 

  • Simple more racially inclusive hairstyle and makeups : We want to celebrate all the members of our team and their beautiful diverse hair, bodies, and skin tones.  We also want to make your lives easier, so we will be simplifying the hairstyles and makeup color requirements as well as making more body conscious choices with costumes.  

  • No more uniforms, just a dress code and two simple items: Instead of uniforms, dancers will be asked to wear all black.  When we need to match for events such as comp or the Warriors Game, they will be asked to wear their Starlight Jacket and the Jersey Top that our dancers have requested instead of a shirt this next year.  

  • Costumes come sooner : We are still working on the best way to accommodate streamlining sizes and returns but we promise you will get your costumes MUCH earlier this year.  As well as all communications about shoes, base layers etc.  

  • Appropriate Costumes, Lyrics, Songs and Themes: Chelsea will personally promise to oversee and approve every costume, lyric, song choice and dance theme before it is given to the students.  All routines will always be clean and age appropriate pieces you can feel confident showing to grandparents and young siblings.  This does not mean older students will never have the freedom to explore mature subjects, but it will be done tastefully and within reason.  We believe in allowing children to be children.  

  • Feedback from judges goes directly to parents : Moving forward, whenever possible, we will provide you with the feedback directly and swiftly so you can learn from the judge’s critiques and immediately begin to implement that knowledge. 

  • Photos available to parents as immediately as possible : Gemma has taken over the access to photos and will make sure to release them to you as quickly as possible so you can post them! 

  • Partnerships with other studios: We want to develop relationships with 1-2 other studios to be our friends to root for and support and maybe even collaborate with at some events.  Focusing on positivity and kindness and fostering better relationships in the dance world.  

  • Showstopper is on theatre We will definitely be continuing showstopper! But we will move it back under the theatre umbrella with auditions alongside JT, Teen, etc.  Showstopper will perform at MTCA and one comp exactly like Teen Comp and Jr Comp Do. We will return to the model from years past of showstopper only having a few long rehearsals instead of a weekly commitment.  These rehearsals will be scheduled over holidays like Christmas Break and Thanksgiving Break.   PLUS, new this year: we will also bring showstopper to some outside performance events TBA like Kidfest or a farmers market.  Details TBA later.  

  • Galaxy is no longer a required team in fact its completely restructured -> Performance Team Per your request we are making changes to Galaxy.  It will  be called “Performance Team” and here’s how it will work.  

    • Anyone accepted onto ANY dance team can CHOOSE to also be on this team too, no dance team member turned away, simply register for this team in addition to the others when you sign up. 

    • This team, just like every other team, will have a regular weekly rehearsal and will go to all comps

    • In ADDITION this team will have a lot more performance opportunities at events and Farmer’s markets at no extra cost to your family for the extra events.  

  • Separate photo day for dance teams vs recital : Photo days are long! Let’s break it up.  We will do Dance Team’s photo days WAY earlier so you get photos sooner and so we spread it out.  

  • Better communication : You’ve already seen this from Gemma.  We are committed to improving our communication, from group chats to Monday Memos and more.  We are working on getting clear and consistent information to you.  

  • No more schedule changes: We will not ask you to rehearse on holidays (except maybe for the Warriors Rehearsal) and we will not keep changing the schedule on you. You will know the planned schedule at Orientation at the beginning of the year and it will stay that way (barring an unforeseen emergency) 

  • Age and level based team structure We want our teams to improve this year. We are going to buckle down on strengthening our dancers and this starts with breaking us up into appropriately leveled groups.  Beginner dancers with beginners, advanced with advanced and on teams with kids your own age.  This will create a structure that means no one could be on more than 4-5 teams max (including Performance Team)  

  • Required classes = Focus on Technique

    • Each team will have required classes included in their tuition costs.  

    • These classes will focus on technique that is appropriate to that team’s level.  

    • It will be open to other students to join but focused on the skill level of the team.  

    • These classes will not perform in recital and will not include any additional recital fees

  • Extra Classes are discounted (even for siblings and parents) 

    • Want to take other styles? Be in recital in Rec classes? Have fun? GREAT! 

    • Dance team kids (and their siblings and their parents) will get a 50% discount for other dance classes

  • Feedback forms at the end of every year 

    • We are excited to introduce something new in our commitment to really helping our dancers improve: Feedback Forms

    • Each year at the end of the year (starting this year that we are still in) the students will each receive a feedback form from the staff, detailing and tracking from year to year how that student has grown and improved, what we are proud of them for and what specific technical goals we want to help them set for next year to improve.  

  • Looking for a fundraising manager to take on the lead in fundraising

    • You want fundraising, so do we! Some parents want help offsetting these costs.  Let’s do it! We are looking for someone who can jump in and take the lead on helping fundraise! 

  • Transparent, simplified pricing. No more complicated math. 

    • We have tried and learned from a lot of pricing models, it sounds like what you want is simple, clear models. So that’s what we will do.  

    • Pricing has been simplified to a flat comp fee per team + a flat tuition fee per team

  • Friday Fun Days

    • We will not hold team rehearsals on Fridays but we got amazing responses about the rehearsal we did with the whole team performing for each other and getting feedback. We will schedule 5-6 of these Friday fun days (you will know the dates before the year starts) for team bonding and improvement and presenting routines before each big event followed by fun activities, movies, outings, potlucks etc for team bonding.   

  • Warriors Game and More!

  • We want to take you to do fun things! We are working to book the warriors game and hopefully even a workshop with the Warriors dancers.  We also want to see if we can do something like the Turkey Trot in Concord this year plus several fairs, festivals and markets. 

We believe that performing a solo, duo or trio at a competition is a valuable learning experience for all dancers at all levels. For that reason, unlike other studios, we do not gatekeep the privilege to do one, instead a team member needs only to purchase a solo/duo/trio package to be allowed to do one. However, we recognize how large of an undertaking it can be and for that reason we DO require that you have been on a competitive dance team for at least a year first. (*incoming students with prior dance team experience elsewhere may count that). We will still reserve the right to decide music, themes, costumes, pairings etc but your input is WANTED and WELCOME 

• If you have already completed 1 year on a competitive dance team then you can do 1 solo/duo/trio total

• If you have already completed 2 years on a competitive dance team then you can do 2 solo/duo/trios total

• If you have already completed 3 years on a competitive dance team then you can do 3 solo/duo/trios total

• HOW THE PACKAGE WORKS

  • 1 package includes the entry fees for all 4 comps and 4x1hr lessons to set the choreo with your choreographer (costumes purchased separately)

  • After that you are encouraged to book privates with MULTIPLE coaches and required to work at least once before competing with one who is not your choreographer. Your choreographer will be credited for their work but the solo etc is an evolving piece of art the studio as a whole will help you improve. The staff as a team want to help you grow and to lend a variety of skills to your training and development.  Coaching sessions as well as workshops will be posted long in advance with clear reservation systems.  Package links will be posted soon.

• PRICING (per dancer)

  • Solo: $1590

  • Duo: $827

  • Trio: $712

  • Includes entry fees for all 4 comps, 1hr of staff pay per comp, photo package, admin time to register your routine, 4 hours of private lessons to set choreo, pick costumes and music, room rental fee for 4 hours.

  • Does not include costumes

  • Additional private lessons purchased separately