August 2021 Newsletter - Fall Semester Begins!
We’re Excited to Dance with You!
Chamberlain School of Ballet begins our 45th year of dance.
Dear Students and Families,
Welcome to Chamberlain School of Ballet’s 45th season. Classes will begin the week of August 16. I am personally grateful to you for your trust and continued support of me, our amazing faculty, staff, and students.
This newsletter has important information and updates to CSB’s Covid-19 restrictions currently in place. Thank you for taking the time to fully read the information being provided.
With the rapid spread of the Delta variant and surge of Covid cases, especially affecting our most vulnerable students, I feel it is important we all do our best to help slow the spread of the virus. My top priority is to assure our students and families that all of CSB’s faculty and staff will be fully vaccinated by September 15.
All teachers will wear their masks while instructing our younger students ages 3-11 yrs. Once the vaccine is available for our youngest students, policies will be revised as recommended. Currently, the CDC recommends universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status.
Given new evidence on the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant, the CDC has updated the guidance for fully vaccinated people. The CDC has added a recommendation for fully vaccinated people, who have come into close contact with someone suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19, to be tested 3-5 days after exposure and to wear a mask in public indoor settings for 14 days or until they receive a negative test result. Fully vaccinated people do not need to quarantine if they follow the testing and masking recommendation above. Fully vaccinated people should monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 for 14 days following an exposure.
In addition to universal indoor masking, CDC recommends schools maintain at least 3 feet of physical distance between students within classrooms to reduce transmission risk.
Chamberlain School of Ballet is gathering COVID vaccination status of students to help with future mitigation. This is recommended, not required. Sharing your or your child's COVID vaccination status is voluntary. Complete COVID vaccination may help students avoid quarantine after exposure in certain instances. Please provide Carolyn Cox proof of vaccination after completing vaccination. Your health information will be confidentially kept by Carolyn Cox.
How to keep CSB a safe space?
Parents are asked to take their child’s temperature before arriving at CSB.
CSB will provide ventilation during all classes.
Frequent handwashing and respiratory etiquette will be observed.
Contact tracing in combination with quarantine and isolation will be observed by those with Covid or with a close exposure of Covid.
Cleaning and disinfection are all important layers of prevention in keeping CSB safe. CSB is professionally cleaned 6 days per week, and UV lamps are used in each studio at the end of the day as recommended by medical professionals.
Students, teachers, and staff should stay home when they have signs of any infectious illness and be referred to their healthcare provider for testing and care. Contact the school’s office regarding illness. You will be notified of COVID exposure and full contact tracing will take place if needed.
Together we will do our best to slow the spread of Covid-19 and its Delta variant.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
UPDATE:
Here is a little more clarification on our COVID-19 policies for all our new parents. As the same as last year, all dressing rooms are closed, so please have your dancer dressed for class but be sure they wear street shoes entering and leaving the school. This helps ensures that our dance floors stay clean. No dance shoes of any kind should be worn outside!
The lobby will remain closed for parents/families to wait for their dancers. On the first of classes, all new families and families of students 3rd grade and under, can come in to get their students situated and meet their teacher. Of course, if you need to make a payment you can come to the front desk. At the end of class, the students are released at the lobby doors, so please meet them right outside after class. No student is allowed to go outside without a parent waiting for them outside. If a parent is not there, the student is allowed to wait in our waiting area. Please be sure to be prompt in bringing them to class and also picking them up from class.
If your dancer has class in Studio #5, please use the Studio #5 door that is down the atrium from the lobby doors to enter and exit the school.
Chamberlain School of Ballet is more than Ballet
We are also proud to offer classes in Creative Dance, Creative Movement, and Improv! To register for one of these classes please call us at 972-985-1374.
Spotlight on new teachers for the year
We are VERY excited to welcome the addition of several new teachers for this upcoming school year!
For more information on each individual instructor, please click here to view our faculty page!
Alyssa Harrington
Dalia Hay
Brittney Myers
Melissa Reed
Weaver Rhodes
Isabel Wallace-Green
Luke Yee
Graduating seniors attending prestigious dance programs and Universities.
Lauren Fiddes- Lines Trainee Program
Kelly Gleason- Indiana University
Katherine Patterson- Next Generation Ballet
Lydia Pigott- Tish School of the Arts- NYU
We wish all our graduating seniors the best in their future endeavors, whether it be in the arts or in their new lives as college freshmen. We would also like to recognize graduating seniors Chloe Holliman, Cady Johnson, and Avery Sifferman. We will miss you all, and hope to see you drop in soon when you’re back in town!
Facility Updates:
It was a challenge as last year I worked closely with the shopping center's leasing agent and property manager with hopes of updating the studios restrooms and lobby. Regretfully those plans did not come to fruition. Minor improvements were made over the summer and we are looking forward to a wonderful year of dance.
Chamberlain Ballet NEWS
CB is a separate 501 (c) 3 pre professional performing arts organization.
Chamberlain Ballet Company Auditions: August 22, 2021
For more information please contact Missy Shofner at: 214-412-8589 or Missy.Shofner@ChamberlainBallet.org
The Nutcracker
Children’s Auditions September 11 & 12
We are incredibly excited to see the return of our Nutcracker production. This Thanksgiving weekend, we are so fortunate to welcome back New York City Ballet principal dancers Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle to North Texas
Show times are as follows:
November 26, 7:00 pm
November 27, 7:00 pm
November 28, 2:00 pm
Master Classes with Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle
Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle will also be giving master classes while they are in town to perform with us!
We are so very excited to be able to host a forum for which they can share their knowledge of dance and what it takes to perform at ballet’s top level. Classes will be Friday, November 26 & Saturday, November 27.
For more information please contact Missy Shofner at: 214-412-8589 or Missy.Shofner@ChamberlainBallet.org
Special Dates
August 16, Semester 1, First day of classes, Chamberlain School of Ballet
August 22, Chamberlain Ballet (Performing Company) Auditions, 2:00 (11 -14 yrs) 4:00 (14 yrs and older)
September 6, Labor Day, Chamberlain School of Ballet is closed
September 11 & 12, Chamberlain Ballet Children's Auditions for The Nutcracker, for more information visit ChamberlainBallet.org
November 22-27, Thanksgiving Holiday, Chamberlain School of Ballet is closed
November 26, 27, & 28 The Nutcracker with special guest artists, Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle, NYCB, Eisemann Center, Richardson, TX
November 26 & 27 Chamberlain Ballet presents Master Classes with Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle, ChamberlainBallet.org
December 18 Semester 1, Last day of classes, Chamberlain School of Ballet
December 20-Jan 2 Winter Break
January 3 Start of Semester 2, Chamberlain School of Ballet
January 17 Martin Luther King, Jr Holiday, Chamberlain School of Ballet is closed
March 7- 12 Spring Break, Chamberlain School of Ballet is closed
March 10-12 Regional Dance America, Southwest, Eisemann Center, Richardson, TX
March 27 Dance Council North Texas, Dance Planet, Dallas, TX
April 8, 9, & 10 Chamberlain Ballet's Family Ballet Series, (TBA), Eisemann Center, Richardson, TX
April 15 & 16 Easter/Passover Holiday, Chamberlain School of Ballet is closed
April 29 & 30 Annual Spring Recital, Chamberlain School of Ballet, Eisemann Center, Richardson, TX
May 14 Semester 2, Last day of classes, Chamberlain School of Ballet
June 2022 June Summer Intensive and Children's Classes- Details will be announced in January 2022
July 2022 July Summer Intensive and Children's Classes- Details will be announced in January 2022
For more information - please feel free to view our website ChamberlainSchoolofBallet.com
Thank you SO much for your continued interest and support of Chamberlain School of Ballet. We are so proud to be in our 45th year celebrating and passing our love of dance onto students in the North Texas area. Please be sure to join us for another successful year of dance and artistry.
Fondly,
Kathy Chamberlain
Owner/Founder