No classes Monday, January 20th in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Registration is open for the Winter|Spring Semester 2025

The Winter|Spring Semester will run Sunday, January 5th - Saturday, June 14th. Students should register for classes at the level of their fall placement, for example a dancer who took Level 2 in the Fall would be in Level 2 for Winter|Spring. New students should contact mail@bainbridgedancecenter.com for help with placement. **NEW - Adult Classes, Tumble & Dance, Dance With Me, and Music & Dance classes will run on shorter 10 week sessions: Winter Session January 5 - March 22 and Spring Session March 23-June 14.

winter/spring class schedule

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Holidays & Performance Dates

Jan 20 Martin Luther King Day

Feb 16-22 Mid-Winter Break

mar 16-22 family & friends watch week

Apr 6-12 Spring Break

apr 20 easter

May 24-26 Memorial Day weekend

Jun 14 Last Day of Classes

Jun 15-22 BDC 44th Annual Student Performances

BDC Hoodies & T-Shirts

BDC TShirts, Hoodies and Dance Bags are available for purchase online. Shipping available. Perfect for holiday and birthday gifts!

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BDC: 100% Green Energy

BDC is proud to be apart of Puget Sound Energy’s Green Power program. All of our energy comes from renewable sources. From 2020 to 2021, BDC’s electricity carbon footprint was reduced by 10,574 pounds of CO2. To put that into perspective, that’s enough renewable energy to power 1,008,250 smartphones!

Race and Social Justice at BDC

I received fantastic suggestions from you all on how we can work together as a community to make BDC actively anti-racist. I hope that this is an ongoing conversation that helps us permanently shape our programs and actions as a school. Here are some resources BDC parents and community members shared. Please feel free to reach out to me with your thoughts and ideas.

• Anti-Racism Resource Page

• Resources for Talking To Students About Race and Social Injustice
  
  Recommended Books at Eagle Harbor
  White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi 
  Stamped (for teens) by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
  Stamped from the Beginning (for adults) by Ibram X. Kendi
  So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  Recommended Dance Films:

• Northwest Tap Connection: "Hell You Talmbout” By Shakiah Danielson. Northwest Tap Connection is a Race & Social Justice oriented studio connecting dance across communities. In 2016, hip-hop teacher Shakiah Danielson and NWTC responded to the deaths of unarmed black lives at the hands of police officers, using dance as passionate protest in a call to say their names, see their names, and feel their names. DONATE TO SUPPORT NWTC

• "Cooped" by Jamar Roberts (dancer and choreographer in residence for the Alvin Ailey Company.) This work was inspired by the disproportionate amount of black and brown bodies being affected by the Covid-19 crisis.

Mental Health Resources

BDC Faculty Member Christina Kemp has put together a list of Mental Health Resources: therapy services as well as domestic violence, suicide, crisis, substance abuse, and grief resources. She also created a helpful guide for the trials of the current situation: Caring for ourselves and loved ones in a time of upheaval.

Bainbridge Island Psychotherapy Guild Website is a list of local therapists here on the island. A lot of therapists don’t use Psychology Today, so our local group’s website is a fantastic resource.

Bainbridge Youth Services is a non-profit on Bainbridge that is dedicated to the emotional well-being of youth. They provide professional counseling for youth 13-21, peer tutoring for grades K-12, and other service programs mostly for teens. Everything BYS offers is free to youth.

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Bainbridge Dance Center

Mail: PO Box 10338

Location: 844 Madison Avenue North

Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Email: mail@bainbridgedancecenter.com

Call: (206) 842-1497