Program Levels

  • Dance I: Beginning
  • Dance II: Beginning-Intermediate *
  • Dance III/IV: Intermediate-Advanced *
  • Dance IV: Advanced *

*Any class above Dance I requires teacher approval for level placement.

Basic Class Requirements

  • Meets every day M-F
  • 50 minute class period- 5 minutes to dress out and 5 minutes at the end of class to dress back into school clothes, leaving a total of 40 minutes of class time for warm-up and technique instruction
  • Must dress for class each day- attire depends on technique studying.

Dance Instruction Offered

  • Ballet
  • Jazz
  • Hip Hop
  • Modern
  • Improvisation/Choreography (advanced classes only)
  • Dance History

Clothing and Fees (All Students)

  • Black Leotard
  • Black or pink tights (for ballet)
  • Pink ballet shoes
  • Jazz pants
  • Jazz shoes (or sneakers)

Dance students are responsible for purchasing their own dance attire. Some local merchants may offer a 20% discount to McCallum HS students. {Ask the dance teacher about this prior to making purchases.}

If you have never had dance before you can expect to spend at least $100.00. If your budget does not allow this, please speak with the dance teacher about help that may be available.

Additional Class Requirements

All dance majors, as well as, students in advanced dance classes, are required to participate in both the fall and spring performances, including after-school practices and dress rehearsals. Because of limited class time, which is devoted primarily to technique, after-school dance practice is mandatory in order to perfect dances.

Students and parents will be provided an after-school rehearsal schedule and students will be expected to be present at all rehearsals unless prior arrangements are made with the dance teacher. A contract will be provided that explains the commitment expectations per show for both student and parents to sign.

Students in Dance Levels I and II who are not dance majors are welcome to participate in the dance shows by audition. A contract will be provided with guidelines for rehearsal schedules and other show information that both the student and parent/guardian commit to with their signatures.

Show Fees
Dancers in either show are required to pay a $25 per semester show fee. This fee goes towards costumes, miscellaneous show supplies, and some meals provided to the cast.

The Director, Ms. Barbara Javors
Ms. Barbara, as the students refer to her, came to us from UT-Austin. She began her dance training in San Antonio, Texas at Glenda's School of Dance and then went on to study at the Vladmir Marek Ballet Academy.  After a summer dance intensive at the North Carolina School of the Arts, she returned to Texas to attend Houston ISD's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. During her senior year in high school she went back to North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated with a concentration in dance. She has studied at both Joffrey Ballet School in New York City and at the Boston Ballet in Massachusetts. She spent three years in a hip-hop company in Nashville, Tennessee before returning to Texas to receive a BFA in Dance from UT-Austin.