December can be a SUPER BUSY month. With all of the holiday parties, family gatherings and New Year’s Resolutions to be setting – it’s easy to get wrapped up in the stress of the holiday. (Pun intended). So for this month we thought it might be best to embrace the chaos of the holidays and aim for our December to be JOLLY & BRIGHT at the studio.

Our monthly intentions are a way to shine a spotlight on the life lessons that dance provides. From creating special bonds between dancers and families, to gratefulness and a growth mindset – it’s our aim to highlight these life lessons to our dancers and dance families. After all, dance is not just about learning how to move your feet, but how to let your heart lead!

What does JOLLY & BRIGHT mean to FDC?

The holidays can be stressful. Arranging family gatherings, and getting to said family gatherings can also be stressful. So we want to make the studio a place of no-stress festive fun for our dance families this December!

What makes us JOLLY & BRIGHT?

Holiday lights have to be one of my most favourite things of the year! The early nights can be pretty depressing so getting to drive home and see all of the Christmas lights throughout Woodstock is pretty fun!

Other than that, I am a BIG believer in holiday traditions! (If you can’t tell by how many holiday traditions the studio has…)

Our Ornament tradition was started by my sister. She carefully designs and creates every single ornament that our dancers receive. We want our dancers to have that special ornament on the tree too. Plus it’s pretty cool to see the collection of ornaments over the years of our dancers too!

Our Tea of the Day tradition was a university-experience inspired tradition. I became known as the tea-drinker in my circle of friends and in first year purchased my first Tea of the Day advent calendar. Since then, it’s been a personal holiday tradition. It was two years ago, when Davids Tea accidently sent me a calendar with a few teas missing – so to make it up to me, they sent me two! One stayed at home and one ended up at the studio. Now it’s a holiday tradition our Intermediate dancers look forward to each day at the studio!

And of course, it wouldn’t be the holidays at Footprints without Dash, our Elf on the Shelf! He gets up to some mischief sometimes, but our littlest dancers love finding him hiding around the lobby!

What’s the JOLLY & BRIGHT Plan?

Over the course of the month we will host a series of activities and events for all of our dancers inside and out of the studio.

  • Watch out for our 12 Days of FDC Christmas social media challenge!
  • Pick up your FDC Holiday Ornament throughout the month
  • Our Holiday Spirit Squad will be out and about performing at various retirement homes throughout the month
  • Sign your 3-8 year old up for Nutcracker Dance Party on Saturday December 15. You can drop the kiddos off, and get caught up on that shopping or wrapping that needs to be done! Santa can only wrap so much on his own, you know!
  • Take a sip from our Tea of the Day while you’re in the studio
  • Enjoy the festive lights and decorations in our studio
  • Join in on the fun during our last week of classes for 2018 with our Holiday Dress Up!

I can’t wait to see how our dancers make this December, Jolly & Bright!

Dancingly Yours,

Miss Lainy