CBA Academic Year Dress Code

Eurotard Dress

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 dance attire and the needed dance shoes for these classes.

First Steps Division (2-6 yrs)

Princess Ballet, Creative Dance, Ballet/Tap (ages 4-6), Parent & Me, Ballet/Jazz

  • 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: no dress code required!
Capezio Dress

Children’s Division (Unit 1)

Storybook Ballet, Hip Hop Dance Mix, Ballet/Tap (ages 6-8), Ballet/Jazz (ages 6-8)

  • 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 & By Placement Divisions (9-18 yrs)

Ballet 1-5, Open Ballet, Ballet for Boys or Boys Dance, 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

  • 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 Only: Black flexible character shoes are needed. Examples: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
  • Tap Shoes: black tap shoes
  • Contemporary Shoes: No shoes – dancers will dance in bare feet

Hip Hop 1-5 & Open Hip Hop  (Does not include Hip Hop Dance Mix)

  • 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.

HAIR: Hair is to be secured in a bun or hair pulled back neatly away from the face 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 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.

*PLEASE NOTE: There is no required dress code for Session Classes, Satellite Classes or CBA Summer Classes/Camps. Students should wear any dance attire and the needed dance shoes for these classes.


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