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• No Indoor Waiting Room: the waiting room will be closed until further notice.  Outdoor, undercover waiting areas will be created as waiting areas for students prior to class.

• Reduced Change Rooms: Students are encouraged to arrive to class already dressed in their dance uniform.  Because we must sanitize between each student, use of change rooms are limited to emergency situations.

• Bring your own Water: Students are encouraged to bring a water bottle to class from home.  For health and safety reason, there will be no water refill options at the studio.  Emergency Single Use Water Cups are available if necessary.

• Wear your own Mask: Students (or parents of younger students) are encouraged to wear their own masks. 

• Hand Sanitization: Students will be provided hand sanitizer upon entry into the studio.

• Covid Symptom Survey: Students (or parents of younger students) will be asked to answer verbally the Covid Symptoms Survey before entering. 

 
 

• Hand Sanitization: Students will be provided with hand sanitizer during class to maintain sanitization

• Personal belongings:  Students are encouraged to only bring the personal belongings needed for their classes with them and leave extra items at home.

• Personal Protective Equipment Available: PPE will be available to any students who wish to wear it and do not have their own.  Teachers will be wearing Mask or Face Shields during class.

• Socially Distanced Spaces:  Each dancer will dance within their own area so maintain a social distancing.   

• Facilities Sanitization: Students will be required to use hand sanitizer at the beginning and at the end of Barre Work Exercise.

• Props Sanitization: All props will be fully sanitized between classes.

• Partner Work: At this time, students will not be permitting partner work in the majority of classes.  The only exception will be in advanced classes or with students who are family members.  In such cases parents will be informed ahead of time and students will only be permitted with parent permission and with wearing PPE in certain circumstances.

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• Reduced Class Sizes: Class sizes will be reduced by 40-60% this season (Approx. 6 - 8 students per class) in order to meet Health & Safety requirement.

• Reduced Exposure to other Classes: The class scheduled will be structured with back to back classes as much as possible so students taking multiple classes can stay in the same room with the same group of class mates while the teachers will travel between this reducing exposure.  

• Frequent Hand Sanitization: Teachers will facilitate multiple hand sanitization opportunities during each class.

• Teachers Wear PPE: Teachers and staff will wear masks or face shields during class.

• Increased Signage: Increased signage around the studio give reminders for Covid safety and protocols.

• Socially Distanced Choreography & Class Plans: Choreography & training will be designed to comply with social distancing but also be flexible so that it can revert to less socially distanced format whenever that time comes.

 
 

• High Touch Surface Cleaning: All high touch surfaces will be sanitized between each class

• Equipment Cleaning: All equipment (Barres, Mats, blocks, etc.) will be sanitized between each student

• Frequent Floor Sanitization: All floors will be sanitized between dance groups. Some class times will be reduced by approximately few minutes in order to accommodate sanitization procedures.

• Increased Cleaning After Hours: Extra cleaning and disinfecting will be done each night when students leave

• Daily Disinfecting of Studio: Stage One Academy will be disinfecting each day to fully sanitize every hard and soft surface in the studio.  

• Increase Bathroom Cleaning: Bathrooms will be sanitized between each day.

 

 

 August 2021

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