Calendar

2025

September

1: Labour Day – no scheduled classes
2: Public school starts
6: Fall term starts
6-12: Fall term fees due
30: Truth & Reconcilliation Day – no scheduled classes

October

12: Thanksgiving Sunday – no scheduled classes
13: Thanksgiving Monday – no scheduled classes
31: Halloween – no scheduled classe

November

4-10: Fall Class Viewing Days
11: Remembrance Day – no scheduled classes
15: North Woodside Community Centre Kris Kringle Craft Fair – no scheduled classes
17: Nutcracker stage rehearsal night – classes running as usual with Anastasia

Excited smiling child in a dance recital. She is leaping with both legs bent. Her arms are thown wide open.

December

3-7: Nutcracker performance week #1
3: No Wednesday classes with Leica due to Nutcracker
4: No Thursday classes with Leica due to Nutcracker
3: Michelle subbing for Leica in Ballet 3 / Ballet Intermediate & Pointe students taking replacement class
10: No Wednesday classes with Leica due to Nutcracker
11: No Thursday classes with Leica due to Nutcracker
11-14: Nutcracker performancce week #2
13: Michelle subbing for Leica in Ballet 3 / Ballet Intermediate &
Pointe students taking replacement class
20 & 21: Parent Participation & Holiday Celebration Days
23-Jan. 3: LHSDholiday break

Dancer in pointe shoes standing on one leg with other leg bent at the knee. The toe of the bent leg is touching the knee of the standing leg. Her arms are swept across her body in the opposite direction of the knee. She is regally gazing downward towards the bent knee.

Photo from the Nutcracker. A solo dancer is joyously holding a hat in front of her. She is standing on the balls of one foot with the other leg tossed up behind her at shoulder height.

2026

January

4: Winter term starts
4-10 Winter term fees due

February

Mid-Feb: Ballet exam fees due
16: Heritage Day – classes running as usual
22-28: Winter Class Viewing Days

March

13 & 14: Ballet exam days – exam schedule TBA
13: Senior Jazz rescheduled to later in evening due to ballet exams
14: No scheduled classes due to ballet exams
15-22: LHSD March Break – no scheduled classes

Solo dancer jumping through air as if skipping. One leg is in a parallel bent knee position. The opposite arm is reaching forward on an upward diagonal with the other arm outstretchd behind on a downward diagonal.

April

1: Spring term starts
1-7: Spring term fees due
3: Good Friday – no scheduled classes
4: Easter Weekend Saturday – classes running as usual
5: Easter Sunday – no scheduled classes
6: Easter Monday – no scheduled classes
29: International Dance Day

May

Mid-May: Showcase costume rental fees due
15-18: Victoria Day Weekend – classes running as usual
19-25: Spring Term Class Viewing Days

June

12: Final day of scheduled classes
Saturday, June 13: Annual Student Showcase dress rehearsals & performance at Alderney Landing Theatre
TBA: Nutcracker Children’s Audition 6:00-8:15
TBA: Nutcracker Dancer’s Audition 6:00-8:30

July & August

Summer class information TBA.

Group of teenaged dancers in recital. They are posed holding umbrellas over one shoulder. Their heads are turned to one side with the opposite softly held outward.

Photo 2nd from top by Olga Cenudioglu. All other photos by Cathy McKelvey.
Dancers top to bottom: Charlotte Salley, Leah Cousins, Lucie Schmidt, Rebecca Wolfe, Sophia Farrah.
Nutcracker photo courtesy of Symphony Nova Scotia.