Family policies

We ask your written permission before we share any photo of your child, on this site, in newsletters or on social media, and you can change your answer at any time. We never put a child's name with a photo, and the photos on this site are examples until we replace them with our own.

Parents of kids ages 5 to 8 are welcome to stay and watch from the benches along the wall. Parents of older kids are welcome to wait in the hall. The sixth week of every session is a watch week, when families sit along the wall and watch the class. Bachata nights and the spring showcase are open to guests, and the showcase has open seating. Photos and video of your own dancer from your seat are welcome, without flash.

Comfortable clothes that move: leggings, shorts or a skirt with a fitted top. Kids and teens wear sneakers or smooth-soled shoes that stay in the studio. Adults wear shoes with a smooth sole, and dance shoes are welcome but not needed in the first weeks. Hair stays away from the face. We take costume sizes in person, for the showcase only.

Please keep your dancer home with a fever, vomiting or diarrhea, and until they have been well for a full day. Tell us by WhatsApp or phone, and we will tell you how a missed class can be made up.

A grown-up brings and collects every dancer in ages 5 to 8, and the teacher hands each child to the person who came with them. For older kids, the door opens fifteen minutes before class, and we ask you to tell us who is collecting. We ask for ID from anyone we haven't met, and we wait with a dancer until their grown-up arrives.

Message us when your dancer will miss a class. A missed class can be made up in another class of the same dance and level within the session. A dancer who arrives after the warm-up joins quietly, and if class is well under way we will ask you to come back next week.

We close the week of Thanksgiving and for the winter holidays, and we follow the Woonsocket schools on snow days. We message every family that morning on WhatsApp and by text. A class missed for weather is made up later in the session.

Dancers keep phones in their bags during class. We don't photograph or film class, apart from watch weeks, when you are welcome to film your own dancer from the wall. Please keep other children out of your shots.