Why a dress code?
- Adds a level of professionalism
- Clothes are specifically designed for best movement and learning outcomes- teachers need to see lines, students need to feel comfortable.
- Uniform helps eliminate the distraction of competition in apparel.
- Teaches respect for the art form of dance
What about black leotards and pink tights for ballet?
- This year, Crescendo Dance Academy will have a universal dress code across each style. This helps to:
- Significantly reduce the time children spend changing at the dance studio
- Promote gender equality
- Eliminate historical racial bias undertones that have plagued the world of ballet
- Eliminate one more barrier to ballet
- Reduce dance class costs for families
- Follow the dress code trend that many professional dance companies have been adopting across the USA.
Dress Code
Storybook dance classes:
Stretchy clothes and ballet shoes
- No jeans or dangly jewelry
All Academy classes
Tight black bottoms and tight black tops
- This can include:
- Tops: Black tank top, black fitted tee, leotard
- Bottoms: Black shorts, black leggings or black tights
- Must be plain black- No graphics or decorations- small logo ok
- No baggy pants or shirts, no denim
Shoes:
- Ballet class: Ballet shoes- can be skin color or pink
- Acro and Stretch: Bare feet
- Lyrical/Jazz and Leaps and Turns- half soles
Hair
- Ballet: in a ballet hair style
- All other classes: Hair tied up tight and away from face- no wispies
Adult classes:
Stretchy clothes you can move in- tight fitted clothes recommended
Some ideas: Tight leggings with a dance skirt over it, flowy pants with a tight top, bike shorts and a tank top etc.
- No denim
- Ballet shoes for ballet
- Bare feet, socks or half soles for all other classes
- Hair- secured up and away from face