Blog Closed

As was mentioned at tonight’s Parents’ Meeting (thanks to everyone who attended), the blog is being discontinued. We will be communicating with you through the website, e-mails and text messages.

The DSDS website is up & running and full of great information (check out the Calendar section – Love that!).

You’ll want to bookmark the website and check it often: http://www.dsdsdance.com

Make sure Whitney has your correct e-mail address, and your cell phone number if you want text messages as well.

We hope you found the blog useful over the past year – it was a fun experiment! We’re certain the new website, e-mails and texts will continue to get all the latest news out in an easy-to-use fashion.

Thanks.

Parent Meeting TONIGHT!

Hey Parents!

Choreography went great yesterday! Cant wait to see how everything looks at the end of the week. If you would like to see the finished product, come on the last day of their class for the last 5 minutes and we will perform for you! The students are working so hard and we couldn’t be more pleased! Thank you!

REMINDER OF THE PARENT MEETING TONIGHT (Tuesday) AT THE STUDIO!

IBC, MPC, PPC, JPC Parents from 7:00-8:00pm

SPC, JTC, TDT Parents form 8:00-9:00pm

If you cannot attend please try and send a representative from your family, or if your child is older you can send them. It is important for you to get this information, and we will try and answer all the questions you may have at this time.

1.. 2.. LOVE YOU!

JTC & TDT Choreography Week Change

There are some changes to Choreography Week for JTC & TDT dancers!

Because of conflicts for our guest choreographers (from Odyssey Dance Theater), we’re changing up your schedule.

In addition, we are asking our TDT dancers to attend the JTC class as well, so you’ll be here two hours each day.

Your new schedule is below:

Monday
JTC – 7:00 – 8:00pm
TDT – 7:00 – 9:00pm

Tuesday
JTC – 10:00 – 11:00am
TDT – 10:00 – 12:00noon

Wednesday & Thursday
JTC – 7:00 – 8:00pm
TDT – 7:00 – 9:00pm

Choreography Week & Parent Meeting

A quick reminder that Choreography Week starts Monday.

Itty Bitty Company: Monday & Wednesday from 2:30-3:30pm PRICE: $18.00
Mini Performing Company: Tuesday & Thursday from 3:30-5:00pm PRICE: $ 28.00
Petite Performing Company: Monday & Wednesday from 3:30-5:00pm PRICE: $28.00
Junior Performing Company: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday from 5:00-6:00pm PRICE: $28.00
Senior Performing Company: Monday Tuesday & Wednesday from 6:00-7:00pm PRICE: $28.00
Junior Tuellerette Company: Monday- Thursday from 7:00-8:00pm PRICE: $38.00
Tuellerettes: Monday-Thursday from 8:00-9:00pm PRICE: $38.00

A MANDATORY PARENT MEETING will be held on Tuesday night (Next week, August 30th) for all Performing Company Parents.

Times for Meeting:

IBC, MPC, PPC, & JPC Parents: 7:00-8:00pm
SPC, JTC, & TDT parents: 8:00-9:00pm

We will be holding the meeting in the small studio as we will have choreography going on the in the big studio.

See You All There!

David Moore!!

Hey Everyone!

We have some great news! We just booked our annual DAVID MOORE visit! YAY!! Such a fun time of year. Here are the details:

When: September 22nd-24th, 2011
Where: DSDS! of course
Who: JPC, SPC, JTC, & TDT
Why: Cause David is the Best! And so are we!

Here is a TENTATIVE SCHEDULE for David’s visit. I say tentative because sometimes David will change the times according to how the group is doing. Sometimes they need more/less time than we thought, and we have to be flexible. This is such a great opportunity to have David come to OUR very own studio and teach us. People travel from all over to take his classes in Los Angeles, and we get him all to ourselves for 3 days, HOW FUN!

Thursday: (This will take the place of regular dance classes on this day, thank you for being flexible)
JPC: 4:00-5:00pm
SPC: 5:00-7:00pm
JTC/TDT: 7:00-9:00pm

Friday:
JPC: 3:00-5:00pm (YES, I do realize this will cut into some of your school schedules. I ask on this day only that you get your child out from school early to be at dance. I promise that it will be an exception, but we want them to have as much time with David as possible, so please plan ahead for this.)
JTC/TDT: 5:00-7:00pm
SPC: 7:00-9:00pm

Saturday:
JPC: 9:00am-10:00pm
SPC: 10:00am-11:00am
TDT/JTC: 11:00am-12:00pm
On Saturday, the parents are invited the last 10 minutes to come and watch what their child has learned from David and to take pictures with him. He is a famous choreographer and it’s so cool to have him here! So make sure to get a photo with him and come see how hard they have worked!

Prices:
Yes, I realize it’s expensive to fly out a professional choreographer from Los Angeles to teach your child a Hip Hop dance, but we feel that it’s worth every penny. Living in Pocatello, Idaho we don’t always get these type of opportunities so here at DSDS we try to create them! His dances over the past years, (School Days, Bieber Fever, Turntables, Monster) have proven to be some of our best! Prices for David are lower this year (YAY!) due to the fact that we have more students in our performing companies, which is so great! David’s prices do go up each and every year! AHHH.. STOP! But keep in mind that we are trying to keep it affordable for all of you, and have your best interest in mind.

JPC: $70.00
SPC: $75.00
JTC/TDT: $85.00
These prices will be due on the 22nd of September (The first day of David’s workshop)

Please try your very best to be punctual and prepared when David is here, you DO NOT want to miss this opportunity or miss one second of what he is teaching us.

If for some crazy reason you will not be able to attend while David is in town, you WILL still have to pay the fee. We will video the choreography for you and you can learn it at home, but being in the company, we count on you to attend everything just like the rest of us. Thanks.

If you have any questions regarding David or anything about fall registration please email/call me at any time. We are so excited for a great new season at DSDS!

CHOREOGRAPHY WEEK: AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 1st!
CLASSES START SEPTEMBER 6TH

1…2… LOVE YOU

Whitney

Don’t forget to check and bookmark the website: www.dsdsdance.com. This blog WILL be going away soon!

Registration

Hope you all saw the article in Sunday’s paper about registration.

We need all returning dancers registered and signed up for auto-pay. You can use the website to handle that.

Please remember that as soon as the website is up and running, we will be discontinuing this blog, so bookmark the website and check it often for updates.

www.dsdsdance.com

Choreography Week Schedule

Choreography Week is almost here!

The dates have changed from our original announcement at the beginning of the summer. We will now be holding Choreography Week MONDAY, AUGUST 29th – THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st.

This is where our performing companies learn their first competitive dance of the season. Last year we learned Lollipop, Tarzan, Technologic, Waka Waka, and Hair. We love to get an early start on our competition dances, and as always, we have some great dances planned, so we are so excited about getting things started.

There is a fee associated with the choreography camp, and it will be withdrawn from your account the week of the camp. This is a MANDATORY camp for Performing company students, but if you absolutely cannot be to choreography camp please let us know ASAP. However, you will still be charged the fee because you are in the performing company, and you will be given a DVD of the dance to learn at home. We will not re-teach this to anyone who missed. It will be your responsibility to learn it. So if you can make it there, it’s obviously the best idea to learn it from the choreographers. This is a dance we will be working on all year so we wouldn’t want you to not be able to be in the dance.

Here are the times and fees for each company:

One more time, this is the week of Monday, August 29th – Thursday, September 1st

Itty Bitty Company: Monday & Wednesday from 2:30-3:30pm PRICE: $18.00
Mini Performing Company: Tuesday & Thursday from 3:30-5:00pm PRICE: $ 28.00
Petite Performing Company: Monday & Wednesday from 3:30-5:00pm PRICE: $28.00
Junior Performing Company: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday from 5:00-6:00pm PRICE: $28.00
Senior Performing Company: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday from 6:00-7:00pm PRICE: $28.00
Junior Tuellerette Company: Monday – Thursday from 7:00-8:00pm PRICE: $38.00
Tuellerettes: Monday – Thursday from 8:00-9:00pm PRICE: $38.00

If you have any questions/concerns, email Whitney at whitjosmit@gmail.com.

If you have not put a credit/debit card on your account file at DSDS please do so ASAP. A reminder that we are not able to use the voided check we got from pre-registration.

Can’t wait to see all of you and get started on what’s going to be a fabulous year! 1… 2…. LOVE YOU! XOXO

Whitney & DSDS Staff

P.S. Our new user friendly website will be up within the next couple days. It will have a calendar of all the dates we have set so far this year and videos from the concert and so much more! Once it’s up and running we will no longer be using the blog, but we will have more updates and information available on the website: http://www.dsdsdance.com. Take a look, we are excited about it!

Let’s Dance!

Our August Dance Intensive starts on Monday (Aug. 8th), and runs through Friday (Aug. 12th).

Don’t forget to bring all your shoes and a water bottle — it’s going to be hot, Hot, HOT!

PPC/MPC/JPC – 9:00am – 12:00 noon
IBC – 12:00noon – 1:00pm
SPC – 1:30pm – 6:00pm (SPC MEMBERS — This was mistakenly listed as 12:30 — PLEASE note the change!)
JTC/TDT – 1:00pm – 6:00pm

The full schedule for the week is available by clicking on Schedule & Pricing — Summer.

We’re excited to see everyone!

DSDS named Best Dance Studio in Pocatello

DSDS has been named Best Dance Studio in Pocatello by the Idaho State Journal Readers’ Choice Awards for the 4th year in a row.

Congratulations to Dana, Whitney and all of the wonderful teachers who do such an amazing job turning out beautiful dancers year after year.

And Thank You to all of the loyal supporters who took the time to vote.