July 27

After a week off dance for vacation, we are back at it. I checked my studio mailbox last night and had our Summer Intensive form in there along with the schedule.

It's recommended that all competition students take the classes, but it is open to our studios recreational students and outside students as well.

There will be teachers coming from NYC, Chicago and Pittsburgh to teach.

The intensive is 4 days and my daughter will be taking 14 classes during this time. Twelve classes are 45 minutes, ballet is an hour and a half, and pointe is an hour. A 2 hour audition will be given at the end of intensive.

The price for her group is $220.

Breaking that down, it's $15.71/class.

We have never attended a dance convention since this is only our second year dancing competitively, so I really have nothing to compare it to. Last year our studio offered a dance convention in October at our studio, but we didn't attend. I believe they will be doing it again this year, but I'm not 100% sure, I can only guess at this point.