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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She is 12.  We said no for the summer dance session and are now debating what to do for Fall/winter. If it was an outdoor activity, I would absolutely say yes but this is all indoors with sweaty teens and I fear that even with reduced class sizes, it is a bad idea.  I almost wish there was a blanket prohibition bc then the option would be out of our control.  Problem is made worse bc most of her friends on this intensive track are returning to the studio. [/quote]

New poster. Longtime studio parent. DD a young adult, no longer at local studio, but...I feel so bad for all the families making choices about dance and in many cases having to tell dancers no. DD's former studio here is open for summer with these protocols, I'm told:
--Dancers are IN masks the entire time, even dancing. I suspect the oldest dancers [i]might[/i] take them off for certain types of lessons but am not sure. 
--No dressing rooms open. Arrive dressed to dance and leave in your dance gear
--Zero access to kitchen/eating area, bring your own water bottle,  no snacking at studio
--Enter and exit only through the exterior doors in your one studio. The site has several studios which all have doors to the outside; those usually are locked from outside (emergency exits only in normal times) but now, no students come or go through the lobby-- they enter from outside directly into the studio they use and leave the same way
--Bathroom breaks for students under a certain age (not sure what age) are chaperoned and I think limited re: numbers
--Teachers also are masked I think and teachers wipe down the barres or anything else dancers touch, between each class. I believe there's a gap now between classes that in the past might have run back to back in the same studios--?
--Class sizes are now smaller so students can spread out
--Parents cannot drop off younger kids but must wait for them (I'm sure they can dash off quickly if they come right back) -- the idea is that no student should ever wait around for a pickup but should exit those exterior doors and go right into a waiting car to leave. No hanging out. There's no access to the lobby to wait or hang out anyway.

If your studios aren't doing things like these, and haven't closed off high-traffic areas like lobbies and dressing rooms, I would not send my kid.

I know all this from other parents. Seems like a very solid, well-considered plan and I hope the studio will survive this year. Dance studios tend to be small businesses, very often family-owned, and operate on pretty narrow margins in some cases. And teachers are often freelancers who are not making a lot and who supplement teaching dance with lots of other jobs, multiple teaching slots, some performances maybe. It's a business people do because they love it.

But all that said, I would be as torn as anyone about letting teen DD go back to dance right now. And probably still would say no. Even with the best protocols, no studio or karate school or other indoor activity can tell anyone which families are strictly distancing (like mine) and which are out there, hitting stores, taking beach vacations, visiting people, etc. And that's worrying. I also have concerns -- NOT just at dance studios but everywhere-- about ventilation systems, since the virus has been shown clearly to spread based on HVAC air flow in a room. (Look up the Chinese restaurant air conditioning cluster if you have doubts).

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