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September 2008 Newsletter Rocky Mountain Express Cloggers www.rmexpress.00go.com |rmexpress@gmail.com | (801) 224-8334
Welcome Back! We are so excited to start this new year! We have many new cloggers, new dances and tons of fun in store. We hope you are excited too! What’s New! With the addition of teaching at BYU last year to RME and America On Stage, we became super busy. In an effort to make RME the best ever, we have changed some things to make sure we are not only meeting your needs, but making RME AMAZING! Here’s some updates! Music Rather than order CDs and wait for them to be burned, we have placed ALL our music online! Download your class’ music. Go to our website and see it! Our username is RMEMusic. Password: RMERocks. They are case-sensitive and need to be entered as above. Please download only your own music, and please ask permission before using any RME dances elsewhere. If this is compromised, we will have to go back to CDs. New Curriculum In an effort to make teaching and learning better at RME, we introduce our new teaching curriculum. See accompanying form! Now you can follow in your child’s progress! All-Around Solo DVDs Part of the new curriculum is to get each dancer their own All-Around Solo DVD. Buying them in bulk allows is to get them at a large discount. See accompanying form. E-mail updates To make sure you are able to see your dancers’ progress, we will send out E-mails every month detailing what each class has accomplished. In this way, we want to keep you updated on all that is being accomplished! Beginning Supervisor We have hired a wonderful person to help us with our new beginning registration. Jodi Wilson now handles all new registration. She get them registered, makes sure they are ready to go and checks up on their progress! Beginning Class We still have some spots in our beginning class and would like to get it all full! If you would like to start any cloggers or know of any who would, simply E-mail us and we will get them connected with Jodi and started! New Website! Jamie Sanders now heads up our website! A new look, new features and up-to-date information is now located there! We hope it will be an enormous help to you! Check out our new music feature. Teacher communication: To help with communication, we encourage you to E-mail your teachers with questions as well as us. Start with them and if they don’t know, they will let us know. We hope this will make E-mail responses come rather fast without delay. Here are our teacher’s E-mails: You can also E-mail teachers from the website too! Amber Handy - amber.handy@gmail.com Aubree Edgel - clogging_rules@hotmail.com Cherise Weber - cheriseweber@yahoo.com Greg Tucker - rmexpress@gmail.com Gregg Crockett - glcrockett@msn.com Lindsey Eddington - starry_eyes1787@yahoo.com Maria Tucker - rmexpress@gmail.com E-mail us too! We have a new system designed to make it so we answer your E-mails quickly too. If you have a question that your teacher is unable to answer, let us know! We are here to make RME the best ever! Reminders Water Bottles: Please remember to bring a water bottle to class to keep yourself hydrated. There’s no drinking fountain. Water to buy: We have drinks in our lobby. Many parents send their kids with $1 for water and then throw the bottle away. Water is available for $1.. Class Rules To make class enjoyable for everyone: 1. No gum in class. 2. Clog only in clogging shoes or tennis shoes. If you don’t have your clogging shoes, wear tennis shoes. No bare foot clogging, flip flops, or sandals allowed. Thanks! 3. For higher levels, no jeans. Adult Class We do have a VERY fun adult class. Join now. No performing! We just want to see how many are interested. If you are, please E-mail us. We anticipate starting up right away. Performances/Competitions **If you have an event you would like cloggers for, please let us know. But do it with plenty of time in advance, so we can arrange schedules! i September 5th. Branson Show Springville HP Social. Branson Team, 996 West Center Street Springville. Meet at 7. Wear black costumes.i Nov 8th Autumnfest competition Solo and Duet Competition. Salt Lake City. All teams but Minis, Stars.i December 4th Festival of Trees Teams: ComingSeville Christmas Show Teams Coming Jamestown Christmas Show Teams Coming ~December 18-19 Christmas Clogging Classic Mtn View High School. All Teams! This is our BIG Show. Tell everyone! Statements To help everyone keep up on what money is paid and make sure we catch all mistakes, we will print a copy of your current statement on the back of your newsletter each month. The statements on the back INCLUDE any payments from the Open House. If you have any questions, please E-mail us! September Changes The month of September will be used to make sure all classes are correct. We will move some cloggers around and do what we can to make all the classes work best for everyone. We really appreciate all your patience during this hectic month! Website www.rmexpress.00go.com - Many of you have seen the
website. We will keep it updated every month, and will post as much information there as possible. If you have a question, chances are you can find it on the web. All performance information will be there, as are the newsletters, calendar, pictures, music, show, and class information. T-shirts & Bags The Open house went great! Shoes ordered will be here in 2 weeks (ask your teacher). We have a the same studio T-shirt as last year! If you didn’t get sized up at the Open house, we will measure you in class in your are new or need a new one. We have youth, adult sizes and fitted sizes. We will order one for all new cloggers in class this week. We have samples in the studio for sizing. We would like everyone to have one. (Parents- you are welcome to show your support and get one as well!) We will only do 2 orders for bags and shirts this year, one now and one in January. We cannot do any orders in between!! T-shirts are $15. If you would like a new RME duffel bag or costume bag, let us know immediately and we’ll get them ordered! Bags are $45 Autumnfest Competition Nov 8th Our first competition is held in November. It is just for individuals and duets! We believe all kids get much better when they compete individuals and want all to attend (but Minis, and Stars - you’ll compete next year) This will be a great opportunity to test your individuals and duets, so practice and get them ready! We will register everyone in early October. If you can’t make it, please let us know immediately so we don’t sign you up! Focusing on the All-Around Solos, gives us a great opportunity to develop our clogging and Autumnfest is the place to start! All-Around Solos You may have seen the newest events in America On Stage are All-Around Solos. There are 5 solos in each level and you can compete as many as you want for just one competition fee (~$10-15). Each year, three of them change so if you are in the same level as last year, three of them are new. Each solo is pre-choreographed and we will learn 2-3 of them in class. They are a large part of our new curriculum and we hope to help our kids advance quickly Private Lessons So many have asked for private lessons for freestyle, duets, and All-Around Solos. We want to offer them now, so that when competition time comes and time is short, you are all ready! You can sign up by E-mailing your teacher and setting up a time! Most private lessons will be held on Friday at the studio. Cost $10/20 minutes $15/30 min. Questions If you have any questions for us, please either E-mail us or call. You can come to class and ask during the break, but class can be a busy time. We will make certain to get with you. E-mail is the best way to get questions answered. E-mail us If we don’t have your E-mail address, please E-mail it to us. We use E-mail a lot to communicate. Pay Online Pay Online! Go to our website and it will have directions. We use paypal.com. (Our account does not take credit cards, just transfers from other PayPal accounts). Payments We now have a 9-month payment period. Your monthly tuition is for 9 months of payment, not 4 lessons a month. Some months have more than 4 classes, some have fewer, but your tuition is for 9 months of teaching. At the end of the year, it all works out. Payments go in the tuition box. Cash needs to be in an envelope with your name. Costumes We are measuring cloggers for costumes during this month. Those teams that can sell their costumes to another will be contacted. If you have already been contacted, PLEASE bring those costumes in within the next week! VERY IMPORTANT: We will be ordering costumes as of Sept. 15th. If you discontinue clogging after that date, you will be held responsible for the costs of your costume!! Drop Forms NEW- If you are going to discontinue clogging at any time, you MUST fill out a drop form (found in the lobby). Then drop it in the payment box. You will be responsible for all payments until you’ve turned a drop form in. We hope you are as excited for this year as we are. See you soon!
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