Hi,

In an effort to save postage this month, I am attaching the June newsletter, summer intensive daily schedule and information with this email going to our students that will be in the Senior Company program in the fall. Copies will also be at the studio. It looks like we will be looking at 20-22 students that will be in our top level. Everyone seemed to have a good year and I am inspired by those who have signed up for all four weeks of the summer intensive or two or three. By September you should be in great shape for our new season! Congratulations to Alex Hyman who will be attending the Walnut Hill 5 week summer intensive out East and Audrey Christiansen who got accepted into the Joffrey program!

The paperwork and tuition deposits were due June 1. We hope to get those in by the end of this week.

I realize that those who are dancing in the summer are very dedicated but also really enjoy dancing. A few dancers expressed ’worry’ about being off from June 20 to July 20(one month) so, for anyone who is interested in a taking a few classes over the break let me know and I can schedule a few.  I am happy to give up some of my break for them. In meeting with the other teachers this week, we have put together what we feel is an awesome schedule and choice for our summer performance, ‘Graduation Ball’ and one other short contemporary peice. Most Senior’s last year were on ‘unlimited’ classes but we would like to see more this year taking Diane Williams’s modern and lyrical classes and attending them consistently. We are so lucky to have such a quality teacher as Diane and she will be working with our dancers with some new choreography for the coming year. Exciting! You can get a glimpse of her work at the June 20 Year End Peformance. Please bring all of your family and friends to that!

I also attached a summer intensive flyer that I hope students and parents can print out and give to potential new students. It would be awesome if we could get our enrollment up in the summer and fall. It will also help if we bring new people to see our summer performance Aug. 14, 7:30pm at WCC.

On a ‘volunteer’ note, we are also looking to get some help working on organizing our storage and costume space over the summer so if any dad’s, or mom’s might be available to help with that let me know. Other volunteer help we could really use include:

Set-up at studio for Year End Performance- contact Judi

Nutcracker and Little Mermaid costume help- contact Beth

Little Mermaid- Backdrop painting and set construction help- contact Chris

Office help- contact – Noelle Wessman or Mieko

Promotional help- contact  Mike or Chris Farkas

Networking with other groups(et Bellingham Skate Club) Irene

Technical Crew(for performance days) - Dave Wright

Work around the studio – John

Once we be having some organizational meetings after June 20th so please get back to us soon if you are interested. I believe we can have an unbelievable year with your support! We are all hear to support you and your child so please reply back and don’t hesitate to ’reply to all’ if you have some good ideas.  Share your inspirations! We had a pretty good year, despite the hard economic times but perhaps even that has brought us together even more as a dance family.

Thanks for your generous support and cooperation!

John & Mieko Bishop

P.S. For those who are making summer plans early and will not be around much this summer, have a wonderful vacation and see you in the fall! Mieko or I will be glad to assist anyone who would like to take advantage of our ‘early bird’ pre-registration and discounted tuition program for 2009-2010. Otherwise perhaps all of us will be together on June 20th at 1pm in Studio A. It should be an uplifting afternoon!

P.S.S. If there is any other information you need from us don’t hesitate to reply back or call me at the office or on my cell. 360-421-4013. John