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Dancers at the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet are trained at Excellence in Dance. To learn more about the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet join their mailing list.

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Or visit their website at www.cvyb.org.



Dress Code for Excellence in Dance
 
 
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Hair
  • Pre-School level dancers should wear their hair in pigtails.
  • All other dancers should wear their hair in a classical bun.
  • Professional school dancers may not wear bangs.
  • Short hair may be pulled back with an elastic headband.
  • Jazz, tap and hip-hop dancers may wear their hair in ponytails.
  • Hair trimmed neatly away from face and collar.
 
Attire
  • Ballet Community School Girls are to wear black leotard, pink tights, and pink ballet shoes. Colored leotards and skirts may be worn the last class of each month ONLY.

  • Professional School Girls wear color appropriate leotards of current class level or black leotard. During make-up classes you are to wear the leotard color of YOUR current class level, not the class you are making-up in. Pink tights and pink ballet shoes, preferably leather split soles. Dancers may wear skirts in center work only. Pointe classes may wear colored leotards. The class level leotard colors are as follows…

    AI – Light Pink
    AII – Light Blue
    BI – Light Purple
    BII - Mint Green

    CI – Dark Green
    CII – Navy
    D – Burgundy


  • Jazz, tap and hip-hop girls may wear colored leotards or formfitting dance shirts (no bare midriffs), black jazz pants or Capris.
  • Boys wear white or black dance shirts, black tights, white socks and black CANVAS ONLY shoes.

  • Jazz, tap and hip-hop boys may wear solid color dance shirt and black jazz pants.
 
Shoes
  • Ballet: pink ballet shoes
  • Jazz: tan jazz shoes
  • Tap: black tap shoes
  • Hip-hop: black dance sneakers
  • Ballet: black CANVAS ONLY shoes.
  • Jazz: black jazz shoes
  • Tap: black tap shoes
  • Hip-hop: black dance sneakers
Jewelry
  • No jewelry except for small stud earrings pierced in bottom of ear lobes. No hoop or dangle earrings. No multiple piercing or body piercing to be worn in classes.