CBA Academic Year Dress Code

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 neatly off of the neck and out of the face.

All Students

HAIR: We welcome all hair types and textures at CBA (see our IDEA page!) and require students to have their hair secured in a ballet bun or pulled back neatly off of the neck and out of the face. Dancers should have freedom for full movement during jumps, leaps, and turns!

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 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 Storytime, Fairytale 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, 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 (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 (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)
(Looking for Hip Hop Dance Mix? See here.)

Student Ensemble

Option 1: black leotard (any style – must be at least 95% black); skin toned convertible tights (ex: Capezio #18C); skin toned ballet slippers
Option 2: fitted athletic black t-shirt tucked in; black tights with dance belt; black ballet slippers
All: Black skirt or black fitted ballet shorts (if student does not wear skirts); black leggings or jazz pants

If you are unable to purchase or procure the additional dance skirt/short and legging/jazz pants attire, please reach out to the Student Ensemble Manager, Jessica Grant ([email protected]) for assistance!

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