All studios, common areas, movement rooms, furniture, equipment and facilities are cleaned and disinfected regularly. HEPA filters have been added to every space, and when possible (considering temperature and noise), windows are open for increased ventilation. Hand sanitizer is available throughout the studio.

If you are fully vaccinated, you do not need to quarantine after exposure. However, we ask that you continue to monitor yourself for COVID-19 symptoms for a full ten days after exposure and get tested 4-5 days after the exposure. Rapid tests (at-home tests) are acceptable.

Regardless of your vaccination status, if you experience any COVID-19 like symptoms at any time, please stay home until you are able to complete a test. (Rapid and at-home test kits are acceptable.) If you continue to have symptoms, but your rapid test is negative, it is strongly recommended that you obtain a PCR test.

If you have a negative rapid test, and you are waiting for PCR results, you may attend class if you are free of both fever and respiratory symptoms, but please be extra diligent with masking. Be advised that the Studio reserves the right to ask you to return home if it is deemed that your presentation of symptoms, ie., excessive sneezing or congestion, are not acceptable.

Students, faculty or staff members who test positive for COVID-19 are required to immediately report it to our Director of Operations, Ashley Hughes at ashley@terryknickerbockerstudio.com.

Individuals who test positive are required to isolate for 5 days, regardless of whether or not they are asymptomatic. If after 5 days, symptoms have not resolved, the individual should continue to isolate until symptoms are resolved including the absence of fever for a full 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication.

At this time, TK Studio does not offer an option for students who are at home to participate remotely in on-site classes. We have found that this set up is challenging for teachers and does not represent the best quality of work for either students in the classroom or at home. Any questions or concerns about this must be addressed directly to the administration. We ask that students refrain from requesting this option directly from a teacher, but rather direct all such requests to Ashley Hughes (ashley@terryknickerbockerstudio.com)

TK Studio retains the sole discretion to assess each incident, or incidents, of exposure at the TK Studio Space and may adopt additional appropriate mitigation measures, including the closure of the Studio Space for a period of time for deep cleaning/disinfection, in which case classes may be conducted online.

The health and safety protocols that allow the TK Studio community to continue to participate in in-person learning may be updated from time-to-time with new governmental and regulatory guidelines, including NYForward. Faculty, staff and students are responsible for knowing and following the protocols that the Studio communicates.

Additionally, we ask that the members of the community remain accountable to each other and maintain the highest level of adherence to health and safety protocols. The Studio understands that it is not in a position to monitor or enforce outside activities, but it does ask that students make choices within the framework of allowing in-person learning at the Studio to continue.

In the shared interest of health and well-being, we ask that community members report positive cases as quickly as possible and cooperate fully with the contact tracing efforts. When a positive case affects even a single member of our community, whether faculty, staff or student, it may very well affect many. Being as transparent and forthcoming as possible is the best way to care for one another.

Questions about the health and safety plan may be addressed to the Director of Operations, Ashley Hughes, ashley@terryknickerbockerstudio.com