CBA’s dress code ensures that all students have a professional appearance and mitigates the distraction of different attire styles. Please see below for Academic Year Dress Code.
*PLEASE NOTE: There is no required dress code for Session Classes, Satellite Classes or CBA Summer Classes/Camps. Students should wear any clothing they can easily move in; any color workout clothing or dance attire is acceptable. Students must wear the proper dance shoes needed for class and hair should be pulled back off of the neck and out of the face.
All Students
HAIR: Hair is to be secured in a bun or hair pulled back neatly away from the face, up and off of the neck for all classes.
TIGHTS: CBA does not require a specific brand of tights for any of the classes, however we prefer students to wear convertible skin toned or pink tights with a seam for ballet. First Steps Division Classes & Storybook Ballet students are NOT required to wear tights for class, however they will need tights for the CBA First Steps Showcase & Spring Performance!
No jewelry is permitted in class; only small stud earrings may be worn. Students are not permitted outside of the CBA building without street shoes on and clothes worn over dance wear.
First Steps Division (1.5-5 years)
Parent & Me, Ballet Story Time, Princess Ballet, Creative Dance, Ballet/Tap (4-5), Ballet/Jazz (4-5)
- Option 1: Eurotard 44285 Short Sleeve Dress in Pink (at My Dance Shoppe or Amazon) OR Capezio CC877C Double Layer Skirt Tank Dress in Pink (at My Dance Shoppe or Amazon); skin toned or pink tights (optional); skin toned or pink full-sole ballet slippers
- Option 2: tucked in white t-shirt; black shorts or black tights or black pants; black full-sole ballet slippers, white socks
- Creative Dance and Ballet/Tap: above attire plus ballet shoes and black tap shoes
- Parent & Me and Ballet Story Time: no dress code required!
Children’s Division (5-10 years)
Children’s Division, Unit 1:
Storybook Ballet, Hip Hop Dance Mix, Ballet/Tap (5-7), Ballet/Jazz (5-7)
- Option 1: Eurotard 44285 Short Sleeve Dress in Lilac (at My Dance Shoppe or Amazon) OR Capezio CC877C Double Layer Skirt Tank Dress in Lavender (at My Dance Shoppe or Amazon); skin toned or pink, convertible tights (optional); skin toned or pink full-sole ballet slippers
- Option 2: tucked in white t-shirt; black shorts or black tights or black pants; black full-sole ballet slippers, white socks
- Hip Hop Dance Mix and Ballet/Tap: above attire plus ballet shoes and black tap shoes
Children’s Division, Unit 2:
Pre-Ballet 1 & 2, Musical Theatre, Tap/Jazz 1A & 1B, Contemporary 1, Hip Hop 1
- Option 1 (all classes except Hip Hop): black leotard (any style – must be at least 95% black).
Pre-Ballet: above plus skin toned or pink convertible tights with seam (ex. Capezio #18C), skin toned or pink ballet slippers - Option 2 (all classes except Hip Hop): fitted athletic white t-shirt tucked in; black tights with dance belt or black shorts or black pants.
Pre-Ballet: above plus black ballet shoes
- Musical Theatre tights & shoes: Convertible skin toned tights; black dance shorts or fitted black jazz pants may be worn (optional); black jazz shoes
- Tap/Jazz tights & shoes: Convertible skin toned tights; black dance shorts or fitted black jazz pants may be worn (optional; black tap shoes and black jazz shoes
- Contemporary tights & shoes: Convertible skin toned tights; black dance shorts or fitted black jazz pants may be worn (optional); bare feet
- Hip Hop: Any dance or workout attire the student can easily move in (no buttons/zippers on pants). If shorts are worn the length must be mid-thigh; no tights required; any clean pair of sneakers that will not be worn outside
Student Divisions (10-18 years) & By Placement Only Division
Ballet 1-5, Open Ballet, Boys Ballet, Variations, Pointe, Partnering, Pre-Professional Technique
- Option 1: black leotard (any style – must be at least 95% black); skin toned or pink convertible tights w/ seam (ex: Capezio #18C); skin toned or pink ballet slippers
- Option 2: fitted athletic white t-shirt tucked in; black tights with dance belt; black ballet slippers
Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, Modern
- Option 1: Black leotard (any style – must be at least 95% black), convertible skin toned tights, black dance shorts or black jazz pants may be worn (optional)
- Option 2: fitted athletic white t-shirt tucked in to black dance shorts or black jazz pants
- Jazz Shoes: black jazz shoes
- Broadway Jazz 4/5 Shoes: Black flexible character shoes are needed. Examples: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
- Tap Shoes: black tap shoes
- Contemporary & Modern Shoes: No shoes – dancers will dance in bare feet
Hip Hop 1-5 & Open Hip Hop (Looking for Hip Hop Dance Mix? See here.)
- Any dance or workout attire the student can easily move in (no buttons/zippers on pants). If shorts are worn the length must be mid-thigh.
- No tights required
- Any indoor sneaker that will not be used outside (not necessarily a jazz sneaker)
Adult Division
- No dress code required!
- Any dance or workout attire the student can easily move in (no buttons/zippers on pants).
- Proper dance shoes for the class genre is required (ballet shoes, tap shoes, hip hop sneakers not worn outside, barefoot for contemporary).
CB Moves Division – Adaptive Classes
- No dress code required!
- Any attire the student can easily move in (no buttons/zippers on pants).
- Students are welcome to wear any shoes (dance shoes or sneakers/support shoes) or barefoot.
- Hair should be pulled back away from the neck/face if possible.
*PLEASE NOTE: There is no required dress code for Session Classes, Satellite Classes or CBA Summer Classes/Camps. Students should wear any clothing they can easily move in; any color workout clothing or dance attire is acceptable. Students must wear the proper dance shoes needed for class and hair should be pulled back off of the neck and out of the face.
Uniforms are available at:
My Dance Shoppe on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall |110 Second Street NE, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22902 • 434-971-6888
OR
Online at Amazon.com