Calendar

2026

September

3: Public school starts
7: Labour Day – no scheduled classes
8: Fall term starts
8-14: Fall term fees due
30: Truth & Reconciliation Day – classes running as usual

October

11: Thanksgiving Sunday – no scheduled classes
12: Thanksgiving Monday – classes running as usual
31: Halloween – classes running as usual

November

7-13: Fall Class Viewing Days
11: Remembrance Day – classes running as usual
14: North Woodside Community Centre Kris Kringle Craft Fair – no scheduled classes
16: 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

2-6: Nutcracker performance week #1
2: No Wednesday classes with Leica due to Nutcracker
3: No Thursday classes with Leica due to Nutcracker
5: Michelle subbing for Leica in Ballet 4
5: Ballet Elem/Int & Pointe students to take replacement class
10-13: Nutcracker performance week #2
10: No Thursday classes with Leica due to Nutcracker
12: Michelle subbing for Leica in Ballet 4
12: Ballet Elem/Int & Pointe students to take replacement class
19 & 20: Parent Participation & Holiday Celebration Days
21-Jan. 3: LHSD holiday 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.

2027

January

4: Winter term starts
4-10: Winter term fees due
Late Jan./early Feb.: Ballet exam fees due

February

15: Heritage Day – classes running as usual
12-18: Winter Class Viewing Days
26 & 27: Ballet exam days (to be confirmed)
26: Senior Jazz to be rescheduled to later in the evening due to ballet exams (to be confirmed)
27: No scheduled classes due to ballet exams

March

8-19: LHSD March Break – no scheduled classes
20: Michelle subbing for Leica in Ballet 4
20: Ballet Elem/Int & Pointe students to take replacement class or sub (to be confirmed)
26: Good Friday – classes running as usual
27: Easter Weekend Saturday – classes running as usual
28: Easter Sunday – classes running as usual
29: Easter Monday – classes running as usual

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
24: KiDanCo Studio Sightings – showing of repertoire in honour of International Dance Week from 4:00-5:00 PM.
29: International Dance Day

May

Mid/Late May: Showcase costume rental fees due
3-9: Spring Class Viewing Days
15 & 16: KiDanCo Spring Season at DANSpace in the Lighthouse Arts Centre
22-24: Victoria Day Weekend – classes running as usual

June

11: Final day of scheduled classes
Saturday, June 12: Annual Student Showcase dress rehearsals & performance at Alderney Landing Theatre
TBA: Nutcracker Dancers’ Auditions
TBA: Nutcracker Children’s Auditions

July & August

Summer class information to be announced

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.