February 2025 Monthly Memo
Annual Spring Fundraiser: April 19th
Supporting our community has always been a high priority for me, both personally and as a business owner. Watch for information coming up about our Annual Spring Fundraiser, supporting Breast Friends, a non profit providing support for women dealing with breast cancer. In the meantime, save the date for Saturday, April 19th. We’re putting together an incredible show!
Self Care
Our mission at SDA is Empowering Students and Community Through Dance and this month our focus is on Empowering through Self Care! Take an active role in nurturing your own wellbeing and happiness! A bubble bath, curling up with a good book, taking a dance class, lunch with a friend... everyone has different ways to nurture themselves.
Watch for our Self Care worksheet this month. Have your dancer complete the worksheet and bring it to the office for a chance to pick a prize out of our treasure box!
Recital Season is in Full Swing!
Recital preparation is in full swing! We’ve had a busy January in the SDA office. Almost all of our costumes have now been ordered. We've even had a few classes already try on their costumes and get to take them home! Though many costumes aren’t scheduled to be shipped until March and April.
Our open enrollment period has come to an end so our focus can be on preparing for Recital Day. Be sure you have June 14th saved on your calendar and block off the week of 9th-13th for dress rehearsals. Rehearsals always start after 4:00pm, since many schools will still be in session.
We ask that all of our students make attendance a priority to allow them to feel confident and capable come recital day. Working as a team with their classmates, good attendance is also important for the entire class.
Additionally we ask that you hold off on family vacations that would impact your dancer’s class in May and June (through Recital Day). We appreciate your best efforts to help make the recital a huge success for all our dancers!
Inclement Weather Policy & Closures:
SDA follows the Sherwood School District (in Washington County) weather related closures. If SSD is closed due to weather, so are we. If SSD has a late start due to weather, studio classes starting before 12pm will be cancelled.
We also want to make sure our SDA Team stays safe. There may be some classes that are cancelled, even if schools aren’t cancelled, because we can’t safely get a teacher to the studio.
You will be contacted by email or text message if class is cancelled.
Spirit Week: February 17th-22nd
The week of February 17th-22nd show that SPIRIT! Wear your SDA apparel to dance class. All SDA apparel is 25% off, during Sprit Week only 💜
All my best,
Liana MacFarlane
Owner/Director
