Dress Code
What to wear for each class, so dancers arrive ready to move.
Required items are listed first, with optional extras below.
Pre-Ballet
- Dance For Joy pink ballet dress
- Pink tights
- Pink ballet shoes
Tiny Tap and Tumble
- Black or light pink leotard, pink, black, or tan tights
- Hair in a pony tail or bun
- Capezio Mary Janes Caramel (girls)
- Capezio “Fluid” black lace-up tap shoes (boys)
Optional
- Black jazz pants (tight)
- Black booty shorts
- Black capri pants
Ballet 1 through Advanced
- Black or light pink leotard, pink ballet tights (Int./Advanced dancers may wear a leotard color of choice for all styles)
- Pink canvas or leather ballet shoes: Capezio “Hanami” or Capezio Juliet
- Ballet bun
Optional
- Ballet skirt
- Black ballet shorts / booty shorts
Jazz
- Black or light pink leotard, pink, black, or tan tights
- Hair in a pony tail or bun
- Caramel Capezio jazz boot
Optional
- Black jazz pants (tight)
- Black booty shorts
- Black capri pants
Lyrical
- Black or light pink leotard, pink, black, or tan tights
- Hair in a pony tail or bun
- Leather Capezio pirouette half sole in nude
Optional
- Black booty shorts
- Black leggings
Jazz/Lyrical Combo and Musical Theater
- Black or light pink leotard, pink, black, or tan tights
- Hair in a pony tail or bun
- Caramel Capezio jazz boot
Optional
- Black booty shorts
- Black leggings or capri pants
Tap
- Black or light pink leotard, pink, black, or tan tights
- Hair in a pony tail or bun
- Tap 1 & 2: Capezio tan Mary Jane tap shoe
- Level 3–Advanced: black lace-ups (Jason Samuel Smith, Capezio Roxy, Bloch Sync, or Capezio Fluid — listed most to least expensive)
Optional
- Black jazz pants (tight)
- Black booty shorts
- Black capri pants
Acro
- Black or light pink leotard
- Hair in a pony tail or bun
- Bare feet
Optional
- Black leggings
- Black booty shorts
Contemporary
- Black or light pink leotard, pink, black, or tan tights
- Hair in a pony tail or bun
Optional
- Contemporary dance socks (nude) or bare feet
- Black jazz pants (tight)
- Black booty shorts
- Black capri pants
Hip Hop
- Black or light pink leotard, t-shirts, or cropped shirts (no bra tops)
- Hair in a pony tail
- Black and white Converse sneaker
Optional
- Black jazz pants
- Leggings
- Sweatpants
- Black booty shorts
- Black capri pants
Boys (All Styles)
- White t-shirt and black sweatpants or shorts
- Black tap shoes, black ballet shoes, or black jazz shoes depending on class
Good to Know
- Leotards are NOT optional. They are required for every discipline at DFJ, except Tap and Hip Hop.
- If you have back-to-back classes and one genre requires a leotard, please wear a leotard.
- Absolutely no sports bras may be worn as a “top.”