Dance Attire

Lamoille Valley Dance Academy requires proper dance attire for all classes, with no exceptions. Proper attire designates the various dance levels and styles while enabling the instructors to view and correct the student’s posture and form. Absolutely no street clothes, loose shirts or pants, or loose hair. Ballet slippers must have the student’s name inside, strings tied, and taped inside the shoe.  Hair must be in a ballet bun or pulled back off of the face as designated below. Any student not properly dressed will not be allowed in class.  

Creative Dance Tots

Girls:
Pink leotard, pink tights, pink ballet slippers (ties taped into the shoe), hair in a ballet bun.

Boys:
White T-shirt, black tights or sweatpants (no pockets), black ballet slippers. and black socks

Ballet & Pointe

Girls:
Black leotard (no shirt attached), pink tights, pink ballet slippers, hair in a ballet bun.
* Dance skirts may be worn in the center only, after ballet barre. For Level 3 and up only. 

Boys:
White T-shirt tucked in, black tights, black ballet slippers.

Lyrical

Girls:
Any solid color leotard or dance camisole, nude tights, jazz pants or dance shorts, nude jazz shoes, and hair in a ponytail.

Boys:
Any solid color t-shirt, black footless tights, jazz pants, dance shorts, or jazz shoes.

Hip-Hop / Jazz / Tap

Girls:
Any solid color leotard or dance camisole, black footless tights or jazz pants, black jazz shoes, clean sneakers, tap shoes (black-footed tights), hair in a ponytail

Boys:
Any solid color t-shirt, black jazz pants or sweatpants, black jazz shoes, clean sneakers, or tap shoes.

Gymnastics

Girls:
Any color leotard or dance camisole, bike shorts or unitard, bare feet, hair in a ponytail.

Boys:
Any color t-shirt, shorts or bike shorts, bare feet.