The Rose Academy

🎭 CHOREOGRAPHY CHALLENGE 2026 🎭

Calling all creative dancers! ✨ It’s time to create, choreograph and bring your ideas to life!

Create a solo or group performance, choose your music, tell a story and show us your original choreography. Whether you’re entering for fun or aiming for the Choreography Challenge Cup, this is your chance to experience dance from a choreographer’s perspective!

🏆 Live audience vote determines the winner

🏠 Every entry earns House Points

🏆 Winner receives the Choreography Challenge Cup + bonus House Points

📅 Entries Open: 10 August
📅 Entries Close: 27 September

🔗 Enter here: https://forms.gle/uKRk8jNuQoXe2XPA6

One choreographer. One original piece. Endless creativity. ✨

💡 Tip of the Week: Trust Your Training

♥️ Stop overthinking every step.
Sometimes we know the movement, but our brain gets in the way. Give yourself permission to dance rather than analysing every little detail while you’re doing it.

💛Remember how far you’ve come. You don’t have to be the dancer you want to be yet. Think about what you can do now that once felt impossible. Your progress is proof that your training is working.

♥️ Let yourself be seen. Confidence doesn’t mean never feeling nervous. It means choosing to perform anyway. Lift your head, commit to your movement and let your personality come through. ✨

Trust the work you’ve put in, then let yourself dance. ❤️

✨ Every step counts. ✨

Not every goal is reached in one big leap. Sometimes progress looks like mastering a tiny detail, finally getting something you’ve been working on, trying again after a difficult class, or simply choosing not to give up.

Those small moments matter. They build confidence, strength and resilience, and over time, they add up to something much bigger. 💪❤️

So keep showing up, keep taking those little steps and keep believing in where they’re taking you.

Tip of the Week — Raising Your Standard

♥️ Pay attention to the details. Great dancing is often found in the little things, a pointed foot, a clean finish, strong posture, precise timing or performing every movement with intention.

💛 Don’t just mark it, make it better. When you’re given a correction, really work on it. Ask yourself what you can change in the movement to really apply the correction. Keep refining it until the movement feels stronger, cleaner and more consistent.

♥️ Keep raising your standard. Excellence comes from caring about the quality of what you do. Look for the next little improvement, cleaner technique, stronger performance, sharper timing or greater control — and keep challenging yourself to do it a little better.

✨ IMPORTANT DATES — SAVE THE DATES! ✨

We’ve got a busy and exciting few months ahead at The Rose Academy! 💃❤️

Here are the key dates to pop in your calendar for the rest of 2026:

📅 Sunday 20 September
🏠 House Day | 1:30–4:30pm | The Rose Academy
More details to come!

🪔 Saturday 17 October
Diwali Festival Performance — Feilding

🎭 Sunday 1 November
2027 Production Auditions | 2:00pm
More details to come!

✨ Saturday 14 November
Aerial Presentations & Choreography Challenge | 5:30pm

🎄 Sunday 6 December
Palmerston North Christmas Parade
Christmas in the Square Performance
More details to come!

🩰 Wednesday 16 December
RNZB — Sleeping Beauty Group Outing

Lots to look forward to, lots to dance for, and plenty of exciting opportunities to finish the year! ❤️✨

Save these dates now — we’ll share more details as each event gets closer!

✨ Don’t wait until you feel ready. ✨

There will always be moments when you doubt yourself, feel nervous, or wonder if you’re good enough. But sometimes, you just have to step into the moment, trust the training you’ve put in, and give yourself permission to try.

You don’t need to feel completely confident before you begin. Confidence often comes because you were brave enough to begin.

Trust your hard work. Trust your teachers. Trust yourself. ❤️

🌟 Tip of the Week: When Class Feels Tough

1. Don’t let one moment define the whole class. Maybe you forgot the combination, missed a step or couldn’t quite nail that correction. Take a breath and keep going. One difficult moment doesn’t mean you’re having a bad class.

2. Focus on one thing you can improve. Instead of trying to fix everything at once, choose one small goal - your posture, your timing, your focus or one particular correction. Small wins can completely change how a tough class feels.

3. Give yourself credit for showing up. Some days your body, brain or confidence just isn’t at 100% and that’s okay. You don’t have to be perfect to make progress. Sometimes the biggest achievement is simply staying positive and giving it your best. ❤️

Sometimes dancing feels harder than it should. When the setbacks keep coming and you feel like you just can’t catch a break, remember: you don’t have to have it all together to keep moving forward. ❤️

Take it one class, one correction, one step at a time. Keep showing up, keep believing, and trust that this difficult chapter is just that, a chapter, not the whole story. ✨

Keep dancing. Your story isn’t finished yet. 🩰

Tip of the week: Making every practice count.

♥️ Focus on quality. Going through something over and over isn’t always the best way to improve. Slow it down, think about your technique and make sure you’re practising it correctly rather than simply getting it done.

💛 Repeat it with purpose. Once you’ve worked on it, repeat it a few times while keeping that correction in mind. Each repetition should have a purpose, you’re training your body to remember the improved version, not just repeating the same mistake.

♥️ Notice what improved. At the end of your practice, take a moment to recognise what felt better or easier. Progress isn’t always a huge breakthrough, sometimes it’s simply a step feeling a little more comfortable than it did yesterday. ❤️