Face-to-face classes will start again on Monday, April 12. The academy is looking forward to welcoming not only its own 450 students but another 53 from the former Sale Academy of Dancing, with whom it is merging. Principal Marina Stalder,who founded the Stalder Academy in 2006, said: “It will be nice to meet our new students face to face.” She would be happy, she said, to work closely with Sale Nomads, like Sale Academy. “If they should ask me, I would be honoured to play an active part in their shows and pantomimes as this is a great tradition in our community,” said Marina.