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Term 3 Round-Up

We had a packed Term 3 this year, with our students working on their annual exams for ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop and contemporary and lots of performance opportunities. The most students we've ever had volunteered to dance at the Special Needs Extravaganza - you were all stunning. A big thank you to Briar, Zelmari, Ruby, Elly, Maria, Abby, Lily, Jessica, Poppy, Clementine, Kaida, Edie, and Viriato, and their whanau. We've been dancing at the Extravaganza for years and we love

Alison's Studio of Dance - Term 2 Wrap-Up

What a busy eleven weeks we had in Term 2! It was great to see all of our students working so hard and thriving in their classes. We started with lots of preparation and practice for our Medal Tests with Miss Tate in Week 9. Medals are a short exam of between 1 and 4 dances (depending on age) where students receive a certificate and a medal from head office in England. We love having Miss Tate visit our studio as our IDTA examiner, and received awesome feedback with a 100% pa

ARC Competitions

We had an amazing weekend running our ARC Restricted Competitions. Alison and Selene love watching all the dancers and singers show off their hard work for our judges. A big thank you to all our volunteers who helped us run the competition (parents and students), to the dads who helped us set up and pack out, and to Michael from TLL who spent several hours setting up our lighting and sound system. We were so lucky to have former students Courtney Collings and Charli Sarten re

Term 1 at Alison's Studio of Dance

We had a busy start to 2026 at the studio, with a jam-packed schedule and fantastic opportunities for all our dancers. Firstly, a big thank you to Ken and the MoreFM team for coming in and joining us for a hip hop session. Ken was a great sport and the senior girls loved it. You might have seen us on Facebook! On 15 March we were lucky enough to be invited to perform at the Local Sounds Festival, organised by local volunteers as a result of Taranaki missing out on Womad this

Term 4 Highlights

Term 4 at Alison's Studio of Dance was especially busy, with lots of performance opportunities for our students. We began with handing out awesome results from our September exam session, as well as certificates and medals. Well done to everyone who sat a medal or a grade exam, your hard work was much appreciated by our examiner Miss Tate. In Week 5 our students were joined by fathers, granddads and brothers for Bring a Bloke to Dance week. All our guests did great and we wer