Dance

Uniform Requirements

Like all reputable dance schools, RDMC has uniform requirements for all classes. Links for purchasing uniforms are below each class description.

The Hand-Me-Down Program is something we offer to ALL students of any gender identification in any class style. If we have the attire you need in your size in our hand-me-downs inventory, we will give it to you to use FOR FREE. We just ask that when you are done with them or have outgrown them, you hand them back in to us so that they can be used by other kids in need.

Donating to the Hand-Me-Down Program. If you have dance attire and shoes that no longer fit you or aren't being used and still have life left in them, please consider donating them to our studio! We accept leotards, biketards (like used in gymnastics), tights without holes or runs, ballet skirts, jazz pants and shorts, ballet shoes in black, pink, and suntan, tap shoes, character shoes, and character skirts. Costumes are also welcome!

If we don't have what you need, you can order your dress code attire here: www.eurotard.com/v4/classes.aspx?studio=S-Re9947 or visit The Dance Store in Salem, which carries all of our uniform needs. Just tell them you are from RDMC in Silverton and they will get you taken care of!

Pre-Ballet through Advanced Ballet Levels, each has a specific leotard (and some skirts) style and color. As students graduate and progress through the levels, they change colors, much like belt colors in the Martial Arts. Tights and ballet shoes should match the student's skin as closely as possible. Hair must be up in a tidy bun, or for short-haired students, as much as possible, off of the face. No Tutus, please, as they are not long enough for proper arms and hands training and are often distracting.

Children's Level Uniforms

Creative Movement & Tumbling: Any color, any style of leotard with attached skirt, tights, and ballet shoes.
Pre-Ballet: Pink Leotard with attached skirt.
Ballet Level 1: Lilac leotard with attached skirt.
Ballet Level 2: Light Blue Leotard (skirt optional).
Ballet Level 3: Red Leotard - no skirts.
Ballet Level 4: Purple leotard (short skirts allowed for modesty covering during monthly cycles).
Ballet Level 5/Pre-Pointe: Royal Blue leotard (short skirts only for modesty).

Major Level Uniforms

Pre-Intermediate/Pointe 1: Burgundy Leotard (short skirts for the pointe portion of class or modesty only).
Intermediate 1 Ballet: Eggplant leotard. Short skirts are optional.
Intermediate 2 Ballet: Navy Blue leotard. Short skirts are optional.
Advanced Ballet: Black leotard or any color the class chooses for the year. Since this level has class daily, they may also wear any solid color leotard of choice, but they must still also have their uniform color.

Ballet Gents always wear a fitted white ballet t-shirt (we highly recommend actual dance t-shirts as they stretch and move with the body), black tights/leggings/shorts, and either white socks with white ballet shoes, or Black ballet shoes with black tights. Gents with longer hair must secure it back off the face as much as possible (i.e. sweatband or bandana, etc)

Trans & Non-Binary Students are always welcome. If they would like help or advice on clothing that both fits their comfortability and our uniform standards, please speak with the director. We are happy to accomodate.

Jazz students must wear black jazz shoes, black jazz pants/leggings/footless tights, with any color/style of leotard. Hair in a ponytail or braid is fine.

Hip Hop students must wear clothing they can move freely in (baggy is fine as long as it's not so baggy that it's unsafe) and CLEAN designated indoor-only dance sneakers. Just like in public school, please ensure all clothing is appropriate and does not include words or images that are racist, violent, or otherwise discriminatory or inappropriate.

Adult dance students may wear any dance or fitness attire that they can move well in for their style of dance class, which makes them feel confident. Tap students will need tap shoes, ballet students will need ballet shoes, and jazz students will need jazz shoes. Belly Dancers may want a coin belt for hip percussion and "modern" shoes (like Footundeez or similar) are ok if you prefer them, but not required.

Ballet

Children's Levels of Ballet

Pre-Ballet

Ages 4-5. 45-minute class, once a week. $55 monthly tuition.

Similar in format to our Creative Movement class, this class builds on emotional, social, and physical growth while maintaining imagination and fun! We blend the same kinds of creativity with the beginner ballet foundation of steps, such as the basic positions of the body, and introduce more structured forms and movements such as skipping and galloping, flexing and pointing feet, posture, balance, and flexibility, while beginning to string together steps and work on memorization. French vocabulary is introduced.

Uniform: Pink Leotard with attached skirt, tights in their skin tone, ballet shoes. Find your uniform here. www.eurotard.com/v4/classes.aspx?studio=S-Re9947

Ballet Levels 1 to 5

The Ballet Levels are carefully designed to train dancers in clean classical placement, progressing through appropriate steps for their age and physical readiness, while building strength, flexibility, coordination, and increased French ballet vocabulary. Students grow expediential each year as they continue the memorization of steps, combinations, and choreography, that are created to inspire personal work ethic and love for ballet. *Ages listed for each level are the approximate target age. Placement may be subject to the instructor.

Level 1 – Ages 5-7. 1 hour, once a week. $60 monthly tuition.

Uniform: Lilac leotard with attached skirt, tights in their skin tone, ballet shoes.

Level 2 – Ages 6-8. 1 hour, once a week; twice a week is encouraged. $60 monthly tuition (1x wk.) $110 monthly (2x wk.)

Uniform: Light Blue leotard with or without skirt, tights in their skin tone, ballet shoes.

Level 3 – Ages 7-10. 1 hour, twice a week. $110 monthly tuition.

Uniform: Red leotard, no skirt. Tights in their skin tone, ballet shoes.

Level 4 – Ages 8-12. 1 hour, twice a week. $110 monthly tuition. Ribbons are added to soft ballet slippers halfway through the year.

Uniform: Purple leotard, short skirt optional. Tights in their skin tone, ballet shoes.

Level 5 – Ages 9-14. 1 hour and 15 minutes and 1 hour and a half, twice weekly. $150 monthly tuition. PBT and Jazz or Hip Hop are highly encouraged. *See also Demi-pointe below.

Uniform: Royal Blue Leotard, short skirt optional. Tights in their skin tone, ballet shoes.

Find your uniform here: www.eurotard.com/v4/classes.aspx?studio=S-Re9947

Major Levels of Ballet

Demi-Pointe

Students in Ballet Level 5 begin to prepare for pointe by increasing the number of exercises commenced en demi pointe.

At approximately halfway through the school year, students will need demi-pointe shoes and to wear ribbons on their soft ballet slippers in preparation for pointe.

Young men in this class will gain the same strength benefits from the demi-pointe work (without the demi-pointe shoes) and work towards their right of passage... partnering!

Pre-Intermediate/Pointe 1

Ages 11+. 1 hour and 15-minute class, 3 times a week. $180 monthly tuition (3x wk.)

*This class is admitted by instructor approval only.* To dance en pointe takes many years of proper training, dedication, strength, and maturity. This ballet technique class includes barre exercises en pointe and simple pas de deux (partnering; if boys are present) on flat or en demi-pointe. Classical Variations are introduced in choreography.

Uniform: Burgundy Leotard, short skirt optional for pointe. Tights in their skin tone, ballet shoes, and pointe shoes.

Find your uniform here: www.eurotard.com/v4/classes.aspx?studio=S-Re9947

Intermediate 1 & 2, and Advanced Ballet

Ages 12+. 1.5-hour class, 3-5 times a week. $180 monthly tuition (3x wk.) $220 monthly tuition (4x wk.) $260 monthly tuition (5x wk.)

*Admittance is by instructor approval only.* Dancers in this class are committed and serious, in preparation for a potential professional

Uniforms: Intermediate 1: Eggplant leotard. Intermediate 2: Navy Blue leotard. Advanced Ballet: Black and the color the class chooses. *All upper levels need conversion tights in their skin tone, ballet shoes, and pointe shoes. Short skirts are optional for pointe.

Find your uniform here: www.eurotard.com/v4/classes.aspx?studio=S-Re9947

Marta is a trained and certified PBT instructor through the PBT International syllabus. Elements of PBT is implemented into all ballet classes.

Intended as a supplemental class for all dancers. But non-dancers are welcome too!

A 45-minute class is only $30 a month.

Infants & Toddlers

Family Dance

Ages infants (sitting) to 3 years old. 45-minute class, once a week with an adult of choice. $50 monthly tuition.

A wonderful introduction to movement, music, and socialization! Set to both popular children's music and other fun cultural children's songs. Many fun props and small instruments are used to inspire creativity and musicality! Increased fine motor skills, coordination, and whole body movement enhance cognitive, sensory, language, and social-emotional development, while boosting school pre-school readiness.

Creative Movement

Ages 3-4. 30-minute class, once a week. $50 monthly tuition.

Discover a love of movement in your body in the form of dance! Age-appropriate and dance-inspiring music is used for this class. Create shapes using the body that are familiar and relatable to this age group, while developing important fundamentals such as motor skills, coordination, body, and spatial awareness, rhythmic skills, focus, flexibility, social skills, classroom etiquette/manners, imagination, and confidence.

*Student must be potty-trained (no longer in diapers) to be in this class.

Uniforms: Any color leotard or biketard and ballet shoes. Tights optional.

Tumbling

Tumbling Tots is for ages 3-5. 30-minute class, once a week. $50 monthly tuition.

Tumbling Kids is for ages 5-8 and is a 45-minute class.

Tumbling incorporates learning beginning tumbling skills like somersaults, cartwheels, headstands, shoulder stands, and much more! Set to fun music and uses several fun props and mats.

Uniform: Any color leotard or biketard. No shoes.

Jazz

Beginning Jazz: Ages 6-10. 45-minute class, once a week. $55 monthly tuition.

Jazz Level 1: Ages 8-12. 1-hour class, once a week. $60 monthly tuition.

Jazz Level 2: Ages 11-teen. 1-hour class, once a week. $60 monthly tuition. *Prerequisite: Jazz 1 or 2 years of ballet.

The jazz techniques taught at this level include basics like body isolations, beginner steps like step-kick-ball-change, three-step-turns, pas de bourree’ piques, jazz jumps like jetes, stags, and passe leaps, pivots, chasses’ and more. Combinations are fun and upbeat to age-appropriate music.

The styles of jazz we teach are a mixture of Classic, Contemporary, Broadway, Afro-Jazz, Latin-Jazz, and Pop. The technique is based on some of the Jazz-Dance-greats Fosse, Jack Cole, Giordano, Luigi, Mia Michaels, and more. Today Jazz dance is an umbrella term that incorporates several different styles and is considered a uniquely American creation, therefore at RDMC, we believe in ensuring our students are well-trained in all styles.

Uniform: Black leggings or jazz pants, any color/style of leotard, black jazz shoes.

Find your uniform here: www.eurotard.com/v4/classes.aspx?studio=S-Re9947

Hip Hop

Beginning Hip Hop

Hip Hop Level 1: Ages 7-10. 45-minute class, once a week. $55 monthly tuition.

Hip Hop Level 2: Ages 8-12. 1-hour class, once a week. $60 monthly tuition.

An energetic class brings hip-hop culture alive through dynamic music and choreography. Practice basic hip hop, popping and locking, and break dancing set to popular and age-appropriate music each week.

Uniform: Comfortable clothing; pants or knee pads (bare legs may get floor burns). Tennis shoes are required.

Hip Hop Level 3

Hip Hop Level 3 is for ages 11+, or by director placement. 1-hour class, once a week. $60 monthly tuition.

This energetic class brings hip-hop culture alive through dynamic music and choreography. Practice more complicated segments of hip hop, popping and locking, Krumping, and break dancing set to popular and appropriate music each week.

Uniform: Comfortable clothing; pants or knee pads (bare legs may get floor burns). Tennis shoes are required.

Modern & Contemporary

Interpretive Modern for Kids

Ages 4-6. 45-minute class, once a week. $50 monthly tuition.

This is an introductory class to modern from a free-movement point of view. Children this age grasp the concept of modern movement very easily because they don’t have inhibitions! Contract and release fall and recovery, spirals, and other age-appropriate and relatable movements are danced, encouraging children to explore movement!

Uniform: Any color leotard and tights or leggings/Jazz pants.

Beginning Modern

Ages 7-10. 1-hour class, once a week. $60 monthly tuition.

Beginners are trained in the basic techniques of Martha Graham and Lester Horton's modern dance techniques. Flatbacks, laterals, contractions/release, fall/recovery, spirals, and Horton fortification studies in small pieces. Modern encourages creativity, connecting emotion and movement to music, and curiosity about how the body moves kinesthetically, we implement improvisation in the class.

Uniform: Black leotard with black footless/conversion tights. Foot Undeez or similar are optional.

Find your uniform here: www.eurotard.com/v4/classes.aspx?studio=S-Re9947

Intermediate/Advanced Modern

Ages 11+. 1-hour class, once a week. $60 monthly tuition.

Progression in training in the basic techniques of Martha Graham and Lester Horton styles of modern dance. Flatbacks, laterals, contractions/release, fall/recovery, spirals, leg swings, figure-4 turns, stags, triple runs, and Horton fortification studies in completion. To encourage creativity, connecting emotion and movement to music, and curiosity about how the body moves kinesthetically, we implement improvisation in the class. *Ballet is a requirement to take this class.

Uniform: Black leotard with black footless/conversion tights. Foot Undeez or similar are optional.

Find your uniform here: www.eurotard.com/v4/classes.aspx?studio=S-Re9947

Adults

Adult Ballet, Jazz & Modern

Adults. Classes are 1 hour once a week. $60 monthly tuition.

These classes are great for “retired dancers” and new dancers alike! If you used to take dance a long time ago or always wanted to take ballet these are the classes for you.

No uniform! Dress how you feel comfortable; if leotards and tights are what you want to wear, awesome! If they aren’t, wear fitness clothing. We DO recommend ballet or jazz shoes, but socks are ok for just the barre.

All bodies and all abilities are welcome!

Adult Tap

Adults and mature teens are welcome! 1-hour class, once a week. $60 monthly tuition.

Classical, Broadway, Rhythm, and Funk style tap steps are taught with rhythm music theory. Build coordination, and strength, and learn fun choreography and routines together while making music with your feet! Fun music!

No uniform: Just tap shoes are required!

Belly Dancing

Adults & mature teens are welcome. 1 hour once a week. $60 monthly tuition.

Belly Dancing in the Tribal style that is a fusion of folkloric dance styles from the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, and India. Dancers wear comfortable attire and often a jingly coin belt to wrap around the hips for added percussion and fun.

Emily Hanson's Belly Dancing classes fill FAST! Early enrollment is highly encouraged, and possibly getting on an early waiting list.

No uniform: You may want to get a coin belt of your own.

RDMC Dance Company

Auditions are held after the New Year.

It's never too soon to start training professionally. Professionalism is how you conduct and present yourself, whether you decide to use your training for a dance career or not, the skills you obtain in this program will serve you a lifetime!

This Spring training program is designed to meet the needs of dedicated students who seek the highest standard of classical ballet education to prepare for a professional career.

Working daily under Marta Hazekamp’s artistic direction, students will develop the essential skills to fully explore and realize their greatest individual potential. This program is based on the Vaganova method, a system of training that is logical, thought-provoking, inspiring, and highly effective, with elements of Balanchine’s innovative technique.

Along with lessons in classical technique, students are immersed in learning the classical repertoire and are exposed to various workshops to develop fluency in various dance styles such as modern, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, and character dance. Conditioning is an integral part of the training, using the PBT® method. PTP members will receive special choreography, performance opportunities, events, workshop opportunities, and field trip outings.

Placement is decided by the director as per the audition. You do NOT need to be a current RDMC student to participate.

Age requirements – open to all genders

Preparatory Ages 10-13 *exceptional 8 and 9-year-olds may be accepted. The base level prerequisite is Ballet Level 3. A minimum of 2 hours of ballet per week is required.

Junior Ages 12-15 *exceptional 11-year-olds may be accepted. The base level prerequisite is Pre-Pointe. A minimum of 3 hours of ballet per week is required.

Senior Ages 13-19. The base level prerequisite is Intermediate 2. A minimum of 3.75 hours of ballet per week is required.

Auditioning

Auditioners must wear a solid color leotard, clean, full-footed pink ballet tights, and ballet flats, and have hair in a tidy bun. Please look professional and be ready to dance by 6 pm sharp. If you are en pointe, please bring your pointe shoes and have your toes prepared before class.

Commitment

January through June (24 weeks).

Signed contracts are required for a commitment. There are no refunds.

Company members will need a special leotard for their PTP classes, show exemplary behavior, arrive looking professional in tidy buns and clean attire, and demonstrate punctuality.

Requirements

Regardless of Preparatory, Junior, or Senior Level, all PTP dancers must be enrolled in Ballet classes at your level (and attend for all days scheduled) and one extra-curricular dance class such as Jazz, Hip Hop, Modern, or PBT.

We welcome dancers from other dance studios! All are welcome here. Students from other studios need to provide their dance schedule to the director to ensure they are taking enough hours of ballet for their level. If they are not, we require that they supplement classes at RDMC to fulfill the requirement.

Ballet provides the technique required for all forms of dance that the PTP will explore. Students who aren’t taking enough hours of ballet training will inhibit their growth within the program.

Tuition

You may pay all at once for the year, or split it into monthly payments. Please discuss this with the director.

These are figured assuming that you are already taking the prerequisites required for this program (stated above) and paying those separately. *The uniform leotard is not included in the cost.

$60 per month or $360 for the season.

If you have a desire to be part of PTP but cannot afford the tuition, please speak with Marta. We do have a business sponsor that may be able to scholarship you.

Weekly Schedule

What does the weekly schedule look like?

Students will attend all regular weekly Ballet classes (at their level) and extracurricular classes with non-company peers. Then they will attend the additional company invitational-only classes/rehearsals once a week.

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