Flexibility.Challenge

Flexibility is something that needs to be attained at a young age while your muscles and bones are still growing. You can help shape and form them as they grow but this gets harder the older you get and the less you stretch. Also, if you do not keep a consistent stretch regimen you will lose a lot of the flexibility you gained within 1 week. You could dance 10 hours a week and work on nothing but leaps and kicks but if you are not stretching and gaining more flexibility it will all be for nothing. Your dance skills will remain the same for years unless you become more flexible. 

We feel lack of flexibility is holding back our dancers from moving to that next level. We will be bringing in a Stretch specialist to company classes and will also hopefully be starting a stretch class. This contest is open to ALL studio dancers!

We feel so strong about this that we will be doing a CHALLENGE. We want ALL Dancers to have Right and Left splits, and a solid back bend.

Dancers sign a calendar each night when they stretch for 20 minutes a day. Teachers will be working on stretching exercises along with our stretch specialist the next few months to give you tips for at home stretching.

Each month when you have at least 2 hours per week signed on your calendar (you can turn in any printed calendar you choose), you can turn your calendar in at the end of the month and put your name in the drawing. The name pulled out each month from the drawing will win a $100 gift certificate to GROOVE!  This can be used for anything at the store.

We also want you to take picture the first day you start stretching and then When the Challenge is over in May, we want you to take new pictures of the same splits/pose and we will pick a GRAND winner. 

The GRAND winner gets the New American Girl Doll, Isabelle, who happens to be a dancer!

Good Luck