Summer Fun 2015 at APAA!

What a fun summer it has been and there is still more to come!  We started off by attending the national dance competition for Step Up 2 Dance and brought home numerous awards and trophies!  While at the competition, the girls also had an opportunity to attend master classes with a group of really great teachers!

National Dance Competition for Step Up 2 Dance!

 

Master Classes at Step Up 2 Dance!

We also enjoyed 3 weeks of summer camp…Ballerina/Princess, Jazzy/Tumble and Do You Think You Can Dance Camp!  The students just could not get enough of summer camp!  Keep that in mind moms for next year!  Everyone who attended one week wished they had signed up for more!  We had so many enthusiastic helpers and even our recent graduates came back to teach!  The students enjoyed dancing, dress up, arts and craft projects and even a little performance at the end of Do You Think You Can Dance Camp!  Can’t wait until next summer!  We have more great ideas!

Ballerina Princess Camp!

Jazzy/Tumble Camp!

Our pillow project! The kids made them!

Our T-Shirts for Do You Think You Can Dance Camp! Everyone signed the back of each other’s shirts!

Our “Hollywood” Wall of Fame!

Our slogan is Do What You Love and Love What You Do!  We really do and hope it shows!  Remember to register for fall classes at www.APAASalem.com  classes are already starting to fill up!

 

Happy New Year!

We would like to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year!  Classes resume January 5th!  Hope you all had as great of a year as we did at the studio in 2014!  From dance competitions to Dancing at Disney with our final highlight, our beautiful and successful performance of The GSBC Nutcracker! 2015 promises to be a fun and exciting year so come dance with us!

Disney Dancing!

We had a great adventure dancing at Walt Disney World in Florida in the parades and the Premier Theater Stage show this summer!  Start saving your pennies everyone for our next magical journey to WDW!  Date announcement coming soon!

Dancing In The Snow picture contest!

Please visit our APAA Facebook page and like your favorite snow pose picture taken during our last big storm!  We have submissions from Audrey, Ava, Mackenzie, Maggie, Sarah & Emma.  The person or people with the photo that gets the most likes will receive a $25 gift certificate for in stock studio apparel.  Voting will run now until Friday night Feb. 7th at 8PM.  Tell all of your friends and good luck!

Check out these great dance snow poses!

Week one…done!

We had a great first week of dance classes!  It was so nice to see all of the familiar and new faces at the studio, so excited to get started on another year at APAA.  There is so much going on that we don’t even know where to begin, new classes, competition team, The Nutcracker, Disney Fundraisers, Friday Fun Night…the list goes on!  We are just thrilled that we can share the excitement with all of you!  With week one completed, we are now moving on to our New England Ballet Ensemble Nutcracker Auditions on Saturday the 21st.  If interested, visit the website http://www.newenglandballetensemble.com to view, download and print all of the information.  A winter tradition to make the holiday season complete!

Announcing NEBE Nutcracker Auditions!

We are thrilled to announce our New England Ballet Ensemble Nutcracker auditions on September 21st, 2013.  All auditions will be held at the Marblehead High School auditorium 2 Humphrey St. in Marblehead. The Nutcracker is a holiday classic that has been a tradition for many North Shore families for over 2 decades! Our company is made up of students from a Performing Arts Academy in Salem and Lisa’s Dance Studio Plus in Marblehead. There are even opportunities for students from other local dance studios to perform in our production. We are a community dance company with the goal to enrich the lives of our students and their families with the art of dance.  Click on the New England Ballet Ensemble Link http://www.NewEnglandBalletEnsemble.com  for the complete audition time schedule, audition form and the first official rehearsal schedule.

Oh What Fun is to dance and play at APAA on a Summer Day!

Our week 3 group – Jazzy Tumble & Angelina Ballerina!

We had so much fun this summer at all of our dance programs! One of the nicest aspects was seeing the older and younger girls interacting together in perfect harmony! We think of all of our students as part of our extended family, we like to call it our “Dance Family”! The older girls enjoyed 3 weeks of Jazzy ~ Tumble camp and the little ones had a blast at Pretty Princess, Abby Cadabby and Angelina Ballerina camp! Most wished they could come back for one more week because they had so much fun! We also had many of our team members with us volunteering their time helping out! A special thanks to the ones who participated! Check out some of our photos to see what were up to!

Audrey practicing her handstand stag!

Hailey practicing her handstand passé!

Hanna doing her handstand passé!

Morgan and Imi stretching for their scorpions! Wow!

Dancing with American Girl Doll day at APAA!

Week 1 group Bffs!

Pretty Princess Group week 1

Abby Cadabby Group week 2!