Studio Announcements 04.13.20
We hope you are having a great start to your week! Here are the studio announcements for April 13 - 18. Keep Dancing!
Spirit Week | April 20 - 25, 2020
We have decided to add an additional "dress up" week this season. During your virtual classes April 20 - 26, 2020 we hope you join us and dress up!
Monday: Crazy Hair & Crazy Wear Day
Tuesday: Beach Day
Wednesday: Costume Day
Thursday: GSDPA or School Spirit Day
Friday: Favorite Character Day
Saturday: Princess & Superhero Day
As also, be sure what you wear is something you can dance in! We cannot wait to see what you come up with!
Try Turns & Leaps
This week we are opening up our Turns & Leaps class on Saturday, April 18 at 9:00am - 10:00am to all studio dancers. Join us for some stretching and practicing dance tricks. This class is to enhance and keep working on these skills that are taught in your classes. As well as expanding your dance trick repertoire. We understand some dancers have limited space to move right now. So we have adaptions in class to help them continue to improve in the space they are working in. SEE YOU SATURDAY!
April Contest
We want to see your pictures! Our April Contest is to find your FIRST recital picture or FIRST day of dance class photo and recreate it. Recreate the pose you were in and try to recreate the costume (if you wore a pink tutu, check your wardrobe for something similar (a pink shirt and skirt for example). Take a picture and share the side by side on Social Media (Facebook or Instagram) and TAG Gasper's School of Dance! We will pick a winner May 1, 2020 (Prize: Gasper Gear). If you started off at a different studio, that is okay. Lets see those FIRST photos and recreations.
FMBallet Summer Intensive - VIRTUAL Audition
FMBallet is holding their final auditions for their Summer Intensive on FRIDAY, APRIL 24 at 6:30pm. The FMBallet is hosting their second annual Summer Dance Intensive. Dancers will have an opportunity to stay in town and train with the Cici Houston (St. Louis Ballet), Kim Sagami (Joffery Ballet - Chicago), Diego Salterini and Hannah Baumgarten (Dance NOW! Miami), along with the FMBallet Artistic Staff, and FMBallet Founder Director. This is a 3-week intensive held in Fargo, ND at Gasper's School of Dance (Home of the FMBallet). Dancers will attend classes in a variety of styles including Ballet, Pointe, Variations, Contemporary, Jazz, Progressive Ballet Technique, and more. Don't miss this opportunity to train with the best in North Dakota. FMBallet is a non-profit performance dance company. They do not offer open classes during our season. The FMBallet is housed at Gasper's School of Dance and many of our company dancers continue their dance training and teach at the studio. VIRTUAL AUDITION INFORMATION Virtual Audition Fee: $25.00 (non-refundable) ZOOM INVITE: You will be emailed a Zoom Invite to the Virtual Audition the week of the audition, along with instructions for how to log i. The audition will be taught and directed by the FMBallet's Artistic Director, Mr. Matt Gasper. Please sign into the audition prepared with a ballet barre type set up, and in leotard, tights, ballet slippers and ballet bun. Contact info@fmballet.org or matt@fmballet.org if you have any questions.
Email Responses
The best way to communicate with us this time is through E-mail. We are doing our best to respond within 24 business hours of receiving the email. Please be patient with us at this time as staff members are wearing many hats and having extra duties added on top of increased amounts of daily emails. We will get to your email as soon as we are able to. We take pride in communicating and responding in a timely manner. We promise we didn't forget about you.
We look forward to another great week dancing with you!
Keep Moving -- Matt Gasper, Lacey Gasper, Ariel Wethern and the GSDPA Staff & Instructors PS. Don't forget to follow us on YouTube.