Main St Funk Dance School Epping

We hope we are that special place for all of our MSF kids. 🧡

In the name of Dolly — keep sparkling, superstars. ✨🤠🧡

🧡🟠 Weekly Team Spirit Shoutout – Week 6, Term 3 (August 17–22) 🟠🧡

Well… the winter bugs got us this week! 🤧🦠

After weeks and weeks of HUGE Weekly Team Spirit Shoutout lists, this week we had just 8 classes manage to dodge the coughs, colds and sniffles and achieve 100% attendance 👏😂

Of course, if you’re sick, staying home and getting better is exactly where you should be 🧡 But it makes these eight teams pretty impressive for somehow managing to have every single dancer fighting fit and in class on the same day!

The WTSS (Weekly Team Spirit Shoutout) goes to any class with 100% attendance.

Because dance is a team sport! When everyone shows up, steps up and doesn’t give up, that’s when the magic happens ✨

A big congratulations to our Week 6 legends:

Monday
• Junior Ballet/Contemporary

Tuesday
• Tiny + Littlie Acro
• Littlie Ballet

Wednesday
• Junior + Inter Ballet/Contemporary

Thursday
• Senior Ballet/Contemporary
• Teen Hip Hop

Saturday
• Junior Jazz
• Littlie Ballet

Just 8 full classes this week — but eight very worthy shoutouts! 👏🧡

Rest up, rug up and get well, Dance Fam! Hopefully Week 7 sees a few more of our dancers back in the studio feeling their best 🤞✨

And for everyone still hanging onto their 100% Club streak… you’re getting closer! 👀🎁

Most of our dance family will know that last year, our little village was dealt a plot twist when our boss lady, Kristie, was diagnosed with breast cancer—just after our Mid-Year Concert and heading into the busiest half of our dance year.

What followed was a whirlwind of treatment, scans, procedures and appointments, all amongst costumes, sequins, stage lights, rehearsals, choreography and everyday dance life—not to mention mum life and Kristie’s other very demanding career!

Kristie took it all in her stride. In fact, if you didn’t realise she was unwell—or sometimes forgot—you’d be forgiven, because you never would have picked it. She kept showing up, kept smiling and, like everything Kristie does, she absolutely smashed it.

Kristie is now in the clear and says she’s finally starting to feel like herself again—even if, from the outside, she never appeared to be anything but.

Oh, and she’s never looked better—rocking the MSF merch with her new little sidekick, Sonny, by her side! 🐾🥰

Now, she’s taking part in Step Up to Breast Cancer, a month-long walking challenge raising funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation—an incredibly important cause that is, understandably, very close to our hearts. 💕

If you’d like to support Kristie’s fundraising goal and cheer her on every step of the way, you can donate here:

https://fundraise.nbcf.org.au/fundraiser/kristiehocking/step-up

Kristie, you were already an inspiration to so many, and you continue to remind us all to put our best foot forward, keep moving and do it all with a smile.

We are so incredibly proud of you. 🧡

We can tell you what makes Main St Funk special all day long…

But we think our dance parents say it better. 🥹🧡

Confidence. Friendships. Community. A place that feels like a second home.

These are the things that matter most to us — and reading that they’re the things our families feel too means more than we can say.

Thank you to our beautiful MSF families for trusting us with your dancers. 🧡

And if Main St Funk has been a special part of your family’s story, we’d be so grateful if you took a minute to leave us a Google review. Your words help other families find their way to the Home of the Orange Spot. 🥹

https://g.page/r/CUQVSUqKJZVOEBM/review

🧡🟠 **Weekly Team Spirit Shoutout – Week 5, Term 3 (August 10–15)** 🟠🧡

Okay… we may have spoken too soon last week about our teachers getting better at remembering their photos 😂📸

We had LOTS of classes with 100% attendance this week… and LOTS of missing photos to go with them. 🤦‍♀️

Turns out when our teachers are busy teaching, choreographing and keeping a room full of dancers on track, remembering the WTSS photo is apparently the first thing to leave their brains 🤪

So if your class is listed below but you can’t see your gorgeous faces — **WE SEE YOU!** You still earned your shoutout! 🧡👏

The **WTSS (Weekly Team Spirit Shoutout)** goes to any class with **100% attendance**.

Because dance is a team sport! When everyone shows up, steps up and doesn’t give up, that’s when the magic happens ✨

Every class matters as we work towards our End of Year Concert. Showing up means learning choreography together, working on formations, building confidence and — most importantly — showing up for your teammates 🧡

Huge congratulations to our **Week 5 legends**:

**Monday**
• Junior Ballet/Contemporary
• Mini + Tiny Jazz
• Mini + Tiny Acro

**Tuesday**
• Tiny + Littlie Acro
• Tiny Jazz
• Tiny Ballet

**Wednesday**
• Littlie + Junior Acro
• Littlie Jazz

**Thursday**
• Mini + Tiny Ballet
• Teen Ballet/Contemporary
• Mini + Tiny Hip Hop

**Friday**
• Mini Ballet

**Saturday**
• Mini Ballet
• Tiny Ballet
• Tiny + Littlie Jazz
• Littlie Hip Hop

Another awesome week of dancers showing up for themselves AND their teams 👏🔥

And don’t forget about our **100% Club** 🎁 Attend every class throughout Term 3 and there’ll be a little prize waiting for you at the end!

Teachers… maybe Week 6 is your week to achieve 100% photo attendance too? 😂📸

🎈 **HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR AUGUST DANCERS!** 🧡

Another year brighter, bolder and full of dancing! ✨

We hope all of our August birthday legends have had (or are about to have!) the BEST day celebrating another trip around the sun. 🥳

Keep dancing bright, superstars! 🌟

It’s been a little while since we’ve highlighted our high-flying acro kids… but that definitely doesn’t mean they haven’t been kicking goals! 🤸‍♀️🧡

A HUGE congratulations to these legends who have levelled up on their Acro Progress Cards! 🙌🏻 Some of them have even levelled up **TWICE** since our last post! 👏

Our Acro Progress Cards help our dancers track their progress as they work through a set of age and ability-appropriate skills. Once they can safely and confidently demonstrate every skill on their card, they level up and move on to the next one! ✔️ It gives our dancers something tangible to work towards and lets them see just how much their hard work is paying off.

We’re so proud of the strength, confidence and determination these little acrobats are building week after week. Keep flying high, team! 🚀🧡