Questions families ask

Pick a class on the schedule and book it on our registration page. Arrive five minutes early, check in at the front desk and change shoes by the window. Families are welcome to watch from the bench.

Classes begin at age 5 and go up to 17, grouped by age. A dancer who is not sure which group fits can ask the front desk before the first class.

Both. Ester and Silvestre speak Spanish and English in class, and the front desk answers in either. Write to us in whichever language you prefer.

No. Every class starts from the beginning of its age group, and the teacher shows each step slowly before it goes with the music.

Clothes that move, and the shoes for the class: soft slippers for ballet, hard-soled shoes for tap, and a long, full skirt or long pants for folklorico. Hair away from the face and a water bottle with a name on it.

A group class for the court: the waltz in pairs and the entrance, taught together by Ester with a teacher counting aloud. The whole court can come together, or dancers can join one by one in the weeks before the date.

The classes a dancer takes in the session. Costumes, the recital and festival trips are named in writing, with what they are for, before you pay for them.

Yes, from the bench at the edge of the floor. In the first weeks of a new class we ask watchers to stay seated and quiet so the dancers can hear the count.

In May. The front desk shares the date and the costume plans in the fall, and families get it in writing.