COVID-19 Studio Update
Plan for the coming weeks
Thank you for being a part of our HeART in Motion family. We are grateful and so lucky to have a community that supports each other. We remain steadfast in our desire to support you and your events in whatever way we can. That being said, we have been keeping a close eye on the situation locally, state wide, and beyond and understand there have been a lot of very quick changes to everyone's lives. We are all adjusting and part of that for us is closing our studio space for ALL classes effective today at 2:00pm after ballet. We wish we could continue to be a community oasis in these times, but given the new information we received from Mayor Hache, we are committed to doing our part to help keep our community healthy and safe by staying apart.
As some of you may have heard or seen from Ridgewood's Mayor Hache, there are now 5 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Valley Hospital. Two of those confirmed are Ridgewood residents. Due to this new information, we have made the decision to temporarily close the studio for classes at 17 Chestnut Street immediately with the first cancelled classes being tomorrow, Monday March 16th, until further notice. Although this is worrisome we should not panic. Instead let's find ways to work together through this pandemic and prevent the spread of the virus, especially to those who are the most vulnerable in our community. We encourage you to follow social distancing and guidelines from the CDC as well as our local governments.
Our community is still here, strong, and willing to help even if it is from more of a distance. We are looking at creating a closed Facebook community page where people can more confidentially reach out to each other, keep in touch, and ask for help if needed.
We are looking at the possibility of moving some or all of our classes online and will continue to update you. We hope that we can keep moving with HeART together even if it is online instead of in person. Look for more details on this coming soon; we are still trying to figure this out on our end.
We are still planning on our June 20th "All You Need is Love" performance for our youth program. We don't foresee on any changes with our summer programs either. We hope to have as many things proceed as scheduled after this break. We are even looking at adding an adult camp in late August! In the meantime, we are going to be lenient with our make-up policy for the youth students and Ridgewood Community School students as well as class card expiration dates.
Please continue to look for e-mails from us for more information as we move forward and try to navigate these times in our community. Reach out any time, we would love to hear from you! We will do our best to answer questions quickly but please give us 1-2 business days to get back to you as we work through this. Email will be the best way to get in touch with us right now. We look forward to reopening, hopefully sooner rather than later, when things seem to be safer for everyone.
It's a great time to follow us on Instagram & Facebook if you haven't already. We will continue to have updates and posts there as well!