Preschool Classes (2-5 Yrs): Dancers can wear dancewear (e.g. leotard and tights) or clothes they can easily move in and ballet shoes or socks. Long hair should be secured back out of the dancer’s face (e.g. ponytail, braids, or bun).
- Combo Classes (Ballet & Tap): Please bring both ballet & tap shoes.
- Duet: Caregiver & Tot: Parents can wear comfortable clothing you can easily move in with socks.
Kids & Teen Classes (5-18 Yrs): This dress code is gender agnostic
- Combo Classes: Can follow either the Ballet or Jazz dress code below. Please bring shoes for both genres of dance in your class (e.g. Ballet and Tap shoes or Jazz and Tap shoes).
- Ballet: Leotard with tights worn under the leotard or black bike shorts/leggings worn over the leotard, and ballet shoes. Long hair should be secured back out of the dancer’s face (e.g. ponytail, braids, or bun). Warmups allowed for teen classes.
- Jazz, Contemporary, Tap, & Musical Theater: Leotard or t-shirt with tights, leggings, athletic pants, bike shorts, or shorts. Please bring the following shoes for each class: Jazz & Musical Theater: Jazz shoes, Tap: Tap shoes, Contemporary: Ballet Shoes or socks. Long hair should be secured back out of the dancer’s face (e.g. ponytail, braids, or bun).
- Studio Hip-Hop & Cheer: Athletic clothing you can easily move in and a clean-soled pair of sneakers you only wear in the studio.
- Kuchipudi: Clothing you can easily move in and bare feet.
Adults: Athletic clothing or dance-wear you can easily move in with appropriate footwear (i.e. ballet, tap, jazz shoes.) Salsa and Line Dancers can wear jazz shoes, dance sneakers, or a clean-soled pair of sneakers you only wear in the dance studio.
We recommend Dancewear Center on 85th in Kirkland for all your dancewear needs.