Tuition

Summer tuition - Dancers can enroll in 4, 5, or 6 weeks of classes. Tuition is due on the first day of summer session. Tuition is non-refundable.

Fall-Spring Tuition may be paid on the 1st or 5th of the month through auto-payment. Payments are expected to be on time and are considered late if not paid by the 9th of each month, at which a tuition increase of $15 will be incurred.

Tuition may be paid by Visa, MasterCard, or Discover Card.

Tuition is a non-refundable flat monthly rate, and remains the same whether the month contains five weeks or three weeks, regardless of holidays or absences. Calculation is based on the studio's ten month season. Missed classes due to illness, injury, school based graded activity (i.e. band concert) may be made up in another class appropriate to your dancer's age and ability level.

If your account is delinquent, the above late fees will be assessed. A consistently delinquent account may result in a suspension of a student's participation in classes. All fees and costume charges must be paid in order for a student to participate in the studio’s end of year annual production. If you are having financial difficulties, please contact the office.

Tuition does not include the cost of shoes, dancewear, costumes, nor annual production tickets. These items will be an additional cost to the parents.

Registration

Registration Fee (annually) - $25 per student; $50 family maximum.

Mid-month start policy

Students who join class mid-month will pay a pro-rated tuition for the first month’s only. It may be advisable for the student to come in for extra help to catch up with the rest of the class in order to participate in the year end annual production. While there can be exceptions, generally we will not accept new students for annual production participation after March 1st. After February 1, we will need to get instructor permission before allowing new students into class.

Attendance 

Attendance is very important for a student to have a meaningful experience in any endeavor. Absences and tardiness and can be very disruptive as it may hold back not only the student but the whole class. Furthermore, by being tardy, the student becomes more prone to injury by missing warm-up and important stretching exercises. If a student is consistently late or misses too many classes, he or she may be held out of a section of the performance if deemed necessary by the instructor and studio director. If a dancer is injured, they are still encouraged to attend and watch the class.  Learning to dance is much like learning math or any complex subject; one skill must be mastered in order to build upon for the next skill.  Excessive absenteeism can prevents this from happening.

Studio Etiquette

Please help us keep our facility clean and orderly. Noise should be kept to a minimum. Eating is allowed only in the seating area and water only in an sealable container is allowed in the studios.  We expect use of good manners and behavior at all times. Providing a safe learning environment by affording others respect and kindness is of high importance to us.

Weather Cancellations

Harbor Dance typically follows the Peninsula School District closures. Email notification will be sent if classes are canceled due to inclement weather. There will be no refunds due to weather cancellations, but make-up classes will be allowed.  Please note; on occasion, the roads will clear in the afternoon and classes may be held at Harbor Dance although Peninsula School District schools may have been closed for the day. 

Dress Code

Ballet - Girls: 

Leotard Colors

All Creative Movement and Ballet/Tap classes - Any light pink leotard, attached skirt permitted.
Preballet 1 & 2 Ages 3 & 4        Any light pink leotard, attached skirt permitted

Preballet 3           Age 5                Hibiscus Harbor Dance Leotard 

Ballet 1                  Age 6               Baby Blue Harbor Dance Leotard 

Ballet 2               Age 7            Yellow Harbor Dance Leotard   

Ballet 3 Age 8           Lipstick Harbor Dance Leotard

Ballet 4                  Ages 9-10          Arabian Blue Harbor Dance Leotard 

Ballet 5                  Ages 11-12        Royal Blue Harbor Dance Leotard 

Ballet 6 & 7 Ages 12+ Gray Harbor Dance Leotard with seamed tights

Ballet 8 By Invitation White any style, seamed tights

           ·         Pink tights (no shiny/Lycra tights, no holes in tights, no underwear)

            ·        Pink leather ballet slippers, or canvas for levels 4 and up.

            ·         Leotard (color appropriate for the Level), no skirt permitted for Preballet 3+

             ·        Mid-length to long hair is required to be pulled back into a neat bun and fastened securely using pins and a hair net. Short hair needs to be fastened away from face. Wrap sweaters and legwarmers may be worn at the barre only at the instructor's discretion and only in the winter months. All extraneous apparel must be shed after barre warm up.  All dancers should cover up before leaving the studio.  

             ·   Jewelry should be minimal: small earrings are okay. NO watches or Fitbits

permitted. NO facial jewelry, no necklaces. (nose rings, etc.).

              ·   Shoes should be neatly sewn with like color thread. NO safety pins.

              ·   Dancewear is to be kept laundered and in good repair. Any holes should be

mended with same color thread.

            ·  Please mark clothing, shoes and dance bags with the student’s name and

class level.

Ballet Boys: Black tights, jazz pants, or short pants, white t-shirt, black ballet shoes.

Tap, Jazz/Lyrical, Musical Theater, and Hip-Hop: Comfortable clothing that is exercise appropriate. No jeans. We allow dancers age 13+ to wear dance tops that expose a max of 2 inches of the midriff. No bra tops nor loose t-shirt style midriffs allowed. All dancers should cover up before leaving the studio. Excluding hip hop -Tops should not be baggy as instructors must see the dancer's lines.  Appropriate footwear must be worn. We allow dancers age 13+ to wear dance tops that expose a max of 2 inches of the midriff. No bra tops nor loose t-shirt style midriffs allowed. All dancers should cover up before leaving the studio.  

Hip Hop Shoes: Clean/non-marking non-street, tennis shoes which must be worn only in the studio and not outside. At least 1 loose-fitting article of clothing, such as a baggy t-shirt, basketball shorts, sports jersey.

Tap Shoes: Mary Jane style for pre-classes. Oxford style for level 1 and up.

Jazz and Jazz/Lyrical: levels 1-3 - jazz shoes should be tan. Level 4 and up, pirouettes, foot undeez, or barefoot.

Musical Theater: Tan jazz shoes for levels 1-3, character shoes with 1.5 inch heel for level 4, character heels with 2.5 inch heel for level 5 and 6.

Acrobatics:  Leotard, with boy shorts is okay, and hair in low pony. Barefeet.  No jewelry or watches.  Small earrings okay. Convertible tights or bare legs okay.

Recital Information & Policies

A $50 fee per family is due each year to participate in recital.  This fee helps us defray the costs of putting on a production and includes links to the videos of all shows.  

Accounts must be paid in full for a dancer to participate in recital.  

Photoshoot:  this is held in June for 1 week.  Our photographer is a local business person, Lisa Hystek of Lisa Hystek Photography www.lisahystekphotography.com.  Photos are taken during or near regular class times with the exception of morning classes. Payments and orders are made directly through her.

Costumes may be required for classes performing in recital. Some classes acquire their own costumes such as hip hop.  Costumes fees run anywhere from $75-$95 plus tax. We do our best to keep prices reasonable.   Costumes may not be taken home unless paid for and account balance is current.  

Costumes are at the participant's expense and are NON-REFUNDABLE because they are non-returnable.  Costume companies are quite firm on this.

Recital is typically held at a local high school typically the second or third weekend of the month of June each year, pending school end dates and venue availability.

Recital is optional.  

Fees you can expect if participating in recital include but are not limited to: Recital fee, costume fees and tights fif needed, tickets, flowers (optional), and photoshoot fees (optional).