Beginning Ballroom COVID 19 FAQ

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Yes!  We adhere to CDC and World Health Organization guidelines stating that the safest way to protect our students, ourselves, and our family, is to require all students be fully vaccinated.  

Proof of full vaccination will be required by your first lesson. 

Yes, again!  While mask mandates have been relaxed everywhere, we  have several professional and personal concerns that make masking the best, safest way for us to conduct business...

1. Teaching and taking dance lessons makes social distancing difficult. 
2. We teach back-to-back, hourly private lessons, with multiple couples and singles rotating through our studio over the course on the hour of any given day. 
3. Our studio space is small, but and quickly circulating the air for maximum safety is difficult.
4. We have people preparing for weddings and other special events, and it's very common for our couples to be getting married on any given weekend.  We don't want to risk exposing them to something that could ruin their wedding, and we are sure you will agree. 
5. We, and several of our students, have family members with high risk health issues that would make exposure to Covid 19 potentially life threatening, or have long term effects, even with vaccines and boosters. 
6. If we DO get exposed, we will be shut down for at least 10 days, putting us out of business for that time, and holding up the progress of ours students who have event deadlines. 

We DO provide both spare, disposable, masks AND hand sanitizer in the studio for your convenience.   

1. It's important to understand that ANY symptoms of illness, no matter how minor, may be related to a Covid 19 infection.  AND 
2. Even vaccinated and boosted people can get Covid 19. (we have vaxxed and boosted students who have been sick for weeks.)    
3. No matter how minor, PLEASE take all symptoms as an indication of possible infection and get tested.  
4. If you feel sick, please call us to reschedule your lesson.  
5. We also ask that you please get tested prior to returning.  ANY urgent care facility,  drug store, or pharmacy can quickly and conveniently administer a COVID 19 test (both the 15 minute Antigen and the more accurate, 24-hour, PCR test).
6. Due to questions of accuracy and inconsistencies over which test kits are given emergency recognized by the FDA, we will not accept the results of a home test kit.   We hope you understand our caution.  

Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to dancing with you soon!