On May 7th Dance Fever Charlotte finished its 2009-10 dance school year with a recital production at Halton Theatre on the campus of CPCC Charlotte.  This year’s recital consisted of two separate shows – the Pre Show featuring our preschool classes and the main show titled “Fame” featuring the rest of our 300+ student body.  Halton Theatre provided a stunning venue which was filled to capacity with parents and grandparents who came to see the results of their kid’s year of dance classes.  One of the highlights of the dance recital each year is the “senior tribute” – the last song of the night pays tribute to our graduating seniors.  This year Dance Fever says a sad farewell to Cally Brenton who will be attending NC State University next year.  Cally has been with us since we opened and is a long-time member of our competition team.

Even though the 2009-10 season has ended we are already enrolling online for our summer and fall classes.  For more info on dance classes in Charlotte visit our website at www.dancefevercharlotte.com

During the month of December two of our Dance Fever family had an amazing Christmas treat.  Morgan Britton, a current member of our senior competition team, and Amanda Britton, a Dance Fever alum and current office manager, attended the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular featuring the world famous Rockettes.   

 The 2009 Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular was the 77th year of this National treasure.  Not only did they get to see the show but they also received a personal back stage tour by Jessica Pack, a current Rockette! (more…)

We had three ladies who took dance classes at Dance Fever Charlotte graduate in May 2009 and leave us for college.  A lot of you were familiar with them because in addition to taking dance classes at Dance Fever Charlotte they also served as teacher’s assistants and vital helpers around the studio.  Here is a quick update on what they are doing now as well as what other grads of dance classes at Dance Fever Charlotte over the past few years are doing:

Class of 2009:

Emily Beam – was one of our students’ favorite teacher assistants during dance classes at Dance Fever Charlotte and is now a Freshman at East Carolina University.  She recently changed majors from nursing to elementary education with a minor in dance.  Her heart is in teaching young people and hopes to be a kindergarten teacher after graduation and teach pre-school dance during the summers.

Kelby Faw – was a member of our award-winning competition team and is now a Freshman at Western Carolina University.  She tried out and was chosen as a member of the WCU Catamounts Dance Team where she performs at games as well as local events including parades.  She is looking forward to dancing with the team at the upcoming WCU homecoming.  While not dancing & studying, she has an entrepreneurial spirit with her latest project creating & selling T-shirts.

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Dance classes at Dance Fever Charlotte kicked off with the start of our fifth season on September 7th, 2009.  Our dance school year runs from September through May with this season’s year end dance recital performance being held on May 7th, 2010 at Halton Theatre on the downtown Charlotte campus of CPCC. 

This year’s dance classes at Dance Fever Charlotte are bigger and better than ever!  In addition to our popular 60 minute pre-school dance classes (Pre-Dance I & II) and 90 minute Kindergarten combination dance classes (Ballet-Tap-HipHop), we have a full dance curriculum for older students that includes ballet, pointe, tap, hip hop, cheer dance, acro, and tumbling.  New this year is our combined Wednesday competition classes where we have overlapped the Petite Competition Dance Team and the Senior Competition Dance Team which will allow us to choreograph bigger production routines including the “Fame” routine currently in the works.  We still offer our popular adult hip hop and adult tap classes on Monday nights.  In addition, this year we have added adult bellydance classes on Monday and Thursday nights.

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