what to wear for your class

Each of our classes have a suggested type of dress, but we encourage you to wear what makes you feel most comfortable:

1. Mini Dance

  • Comfortable, flexible clothing

  • Bare feet or pink ballet slippers

  • Tights are NOT required for Mini Dance classes

2. Ballet/Lyrical Jazz

  • Girls - any fitted dance attire, pink ballet tights, and pink canvas ballet slippers

  • Boys - black dance pants, solid black or white fitted t-shirt, black ballet slippers

  • All - beige foot undies and black dance socks (black jazz shoes will also work, if you already have them)

  • Hair tied back

3. Monday Teen Ballet & Thursday Ballet/Pointe/Variation III

  • Girls - This year we are excited to have Ballet uniforms! Amy Hamilton has already chosen the style and colour for each class and students will be sized the first week of classes! The fee for these leotards will be taken from the costume fees that you have already paid, so no additional fees will be charged. While we wait for these leotards to arrive, wear any fitted dance attire to your first class(es). Please wear pink ballet tights and pink canvas ballet slippers.

  • Men - black dance pants, solid black or white fitted t-shirt, black ballet slippers

  • Hair in Ballet bun

4. All Other Ballet Classes

  • Girls - ballet leotard of choice, pink ballet tights, and pink canvas ballet slippers

  • Men - black dance pants, solid black or white fitted t-shirt, black ballet slippers

  • Hair in Ballet bun

5. Esteem Ballet

  • Comfortable clothing that you feel free to move in and allows your ankles and feet to be visible

  • Pink ballet slippers

  • Hair in Ballet bun

6. Contemporary Ballet

  • Leotard of choice with shorts overtop

  • Pink ballet tights (optional; however, it is suggested to have something to cover your legs when doing floorwork)

  • Pink ballet slippers and socks

  • Hair pulled back in either a ponytail or bun

7. Jazz/Modern & Jumps/Turns

  • Black, fitted dance pants

  • Leotard or top of choice

  • Beige foot undies, lyrical shoes, or dance socks

  • Hair tied back

8. Jazz/Hip Hop

  • Modest, flexible clothing, body suit (optional)

  • Bare feet or dance socks (optional jazz shoes for Jazz class)

  • "Indoor only" & non-marking runners

  • Hair tied back

9. Hip Hop & Jazz Funk

  • Loose, modest clothing (sweatpants are easiest for Hip Hop)

  • "Indoor only" & non-marking runners

10. Tap

  • Casual, comfortable clothing

  • Black tap shoes

11. Acro, Ballet Floor Barre, Contemporary, Contemporary/Ballet, Embodied, Jazz, Jazz/Lyrical, Musical Theatre, Performance

  • Modest, flexible clothing, body suit (optional)

  • Bare feet or dance socks (black jazz shoes or black dance socks for Jazz class)

  • Hair tied back

12. Acting, Improv & Voice Classes

  • Modest, flexible clothing

  • Hair tied back for Acting & Improv classes

*Please bring your own water bottle for class*