#dance schedule

So this summer felt like it lasted forever. I moved back to my hometown, and that means I’m back at my first dance studio. I was pretty intimidated going back, as this studio is the most accomplished RAD dance school in the country. But this first week has been a lot of fun, and hopefully I’ll be able to keep up with my new classes. 

This semester I’ll be dancing 9 classes per week. The classes consist of RAD Grade 6 (2x a week), RAD Intermediate Foundation (2x a week), Contemporary Jazz, Modern, Ballet ball (ballet with a pilates ball for strengthening), Stretch/Strength class, Advanced Adult Ballet class. 

For those of you who do not know the RAD syllabus, the Intermediate Foundation class is part of the vocational branch - meaning there is pointe work!

Fall 2018 Dance Classes Start Sept. 4!

Check out everything you need to know about the upcoming dance season at ROOTS

Summer is over, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop!

There’s still time to enroll in dance classes at ROOTS Academy, but you’ll need to act fast. Our classes begin right after Labor Day on Sept. 4. Check out the full schedule here!

At ROOTS, we build all of our programs around three foundations:

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Back to School… Back to Dance! 8 Classes Starting This Fall

Enroll your child in one of our open dance classes to help keep them moving, thinking, and having fun after the school day ends

Going back to school can be a rough transition for kids.

Instead of having all that free time to run around under the sun, swim at the pool, and play in the yard, they spend most of their days sitting at a desk and looking for an outlet for all their pent-up energy.

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-5 min; Warm Up

Neck Isolations; helps body feel more agile, practice moving one part of the body whilst the rest is still and warms up muscles in the neck.

Hip Swings; same concept as neck isolations, warms up hips and good practice for moving one part of the body

Heel Raises; warms up calves and hamstrings, use in second position outward facing (heels together and toes poiting diagonally) and first position forward facing (heels in line with the shoulders and toes pointing forward)

Squats; Using second position outward facing (feet wide apart and toes pointing outward) we go down into squat position and bounce lightly whilst stretching our arms out to our sides and moving in small circular movements.

-15 min; Revision

Clique

Wake Me Up

Wild

Ready For the Weekend

-10-12 min; New Choreography + Repition

-5-8 min; Revision of all dances

-5 min; Stretching

Lunge Stretch; stretches lower muscles of body

Butterfly position; stretches thighs 

Arms; link fingers behind back and lean forwards with the arms going up over the head

Ugh. Don't even want to go to the stupid thing but certain things have become sort of clear to me and my plans with Damon to boycott in favor of smoking pot and playing video games are now... impractical. So.

Decorating: Proud to say I've gotten away with doing fuck all.

Outfit: I'm wearing this suit. Gray offered to loan me one but I have a bit of a pride thing. So I scrounged this up. Not too bad.

Date: I don't think so, I'll be leaving ten minutes after I get there. Seems rude to ditch someone like that.

Bad blood: See 4 below.

Vampires: See 5 below.

I'm driving. We have a carload. Me, Damon, his date Nik and Nik's date Meredith. This won't be awkward at all. 

I'll be leaving as soon as I've had a chance to dance with Meredith which would be in the first couple of songs, I hope. No? Fuck. Better dance with someone else then, maybe a couple of people. Liz is a friend, she'll dance with me (right Liz? Don't let me look like a total dork). Alex gets a dance too, as does Isobel. Pity none of the guys around here have the balls to dance with another guy. Guess Virginia will stay in the dark ages for another couple of decades.  Oh, wait, Galen and Seb look like they're having fun. I'll dance with them.

At some point I will see Damon and Nik sneak off and step in to dance with Meredith. This will be an awesome moment of personal growth for me. This will also trigger my dance with Meredith.

Next, because I'm still a bit disappointed that my suspicions are confirmed, I will go outside to get some air. At this point I'll find Johnny outside. Johnny will also have had a pretty shitty night. We will have a friendly conversation and a drink followed by a fight that spurs fifteen years of mutual dislike.

Next, I will be bitten by a vampire because I'm vampire bait. This is going to kick off an arc that winds up with me getting sicker over the next few weeks because of anaemia.