On April 22^nd, from 1:00 to 5:00, you will have the opportunity to view and purchase the photos that were taken by Donner Photographic on picture day. At this time, you may reserve space for your child’s individual photo to appear in the keepsake recital program. We thank you for supporting this effort in order to be able to provide your guests who attend our show this lovely program book at no additional charge. There are no charges incurred by you for the group photos that will appear in the program. Remember, you get a free business ad if you place an individual photo of your dancer in the program!
The fees for individual space are as follows:
1/4  page- $65.    1/2  page- $100.     Full page- $200.

Please have your text ready for your individual program ads!

Tickets/DVDs

On April 22^nd your ticket and DVD orders should be turned in. Tickets are $22. Please turn in an envelope and on the front, list the following information:
student’s name, student’s class, number of tickets needed, amount of money enclosed or credit card number, name as it appears on card and expiration date or if we have your card on file you may just write “on file”.
There is no minimum or maximum on tickets purchased. Parent volunteers do not need a ticket. If you do not turn in your ticket orders by April 22^nd you will lose your place in the seating order, which is determined by when you registered.  The first person pre registered back in Spring of ’11 will be seated the furthest forward,etc. )Please remember the first 2 rows are reserved for graduating seniors and RealDance staff and faculty.

A DVD order form is attached to this letter; it can go in the same envelope with the ticket order.

Dress Rehearsal – Boca Raton High School  REMEMBER! THERE IS NO FOOD PERMITTED INSIDE THE BUILDING!! BOTTLED WATER ONLY !
Dress rehearsal is Friday, May 4^th and mandatory for all recital participants. Doors will be unlocked at 4:30 so we may start at 5:00. If you arrive before 4:30 we will not be ready yet to receive you so please do not arrive too early. Take I-95 North to Glades Rd. Make a right onto Glades, and your first immediate right. Boca High will be on your right. Bring in the children at the entrance to the band classroom, in the front of the school. Jessica will be meeting you at the entrance to the classroom to show you where to go. If you wish, you may drop off your child’s belongings in their assigned dressing room if you don’t want to hold them. From there, follow the signs ONTO THE STAGE and we will seat them in a row with the rest of their class. You may then go out into the audience and find your class’s assigned row according to the sign on the end of the row. Further directions will be given from that point on before we start.  ONLY ONE ADULT PER DANCER FAMILY WILL BE ADMIITTED AT DRESS REHEARSAL!!The dancers should be in full costume and make up, as they were for pictures. Please be sure that there are no bows sticking out of your child’s ballet shoes. Remember: no underwear or ANY jewelry is to be worn. Also, be sure your child’s name and/or initials are in every single costume piece, shoes and tights, even earrings (use a marker for initials).  Please do not use their “recital” tights for dress rehearsal, save those for the actual performance. The tights they wear for class are fine for dress rehearsal.

We will start with the FINALE/BOWS first. We will then have our 3 and 4 year olds dancers stay on the stage and in the wings and rehearse their routines (Tuesday 4:00 “World of Toys”, Saturday 9:00 “Baby Ballerina” and Saturday 10:30 “You Are the Best”). Parent volunteers from these classes please wait on stage with your class. They may leave when they are finished or proceed into the audience to watch the rest of the dancers since they cannot be in the audience the day of the recital.

We will then run the show from beginning to end without stopping in order to rehearse quick costume changes. We will NOT have an intermission between the 2 acts for rehearsal. All dancers are encouraged to watch the other classes, as they won’t be in the audience for the recital.  We will dismiss the children after they are finished dancing their number(s). Please do not let them run around and distract the dancers who are on stage rehearsing. Each parent is responsible for supervising their own child at dress rehearsal; class parent volunteers are for recital day only. We hope to be finished by 8 or 8:30 PM. BEFORE LEAVING PLEASE PICK UP YOUR PRE REGISTRATION PACKET AT THE FRONT OF THE STAGE IN YOUR CHILD’S FOLDER IN THE ROLLING FILE RACK.

Recital at BOCA RATON HIGH SCHOOL

REMEMBER! Boca High staff has asked that there should be absolutely NO eating or drinking ANYWHERE in the building, we advise that you feed your child a hearty meal before rehearsal and recital. If we cannot adhere to this they will no longer allow us to have our show there, they are EXTREMELY STRICT WITH THIS POLICY! Thanks in advance!

Recital day is Sunday May 20th. All dancers must be backstage no later than 3:30 pm for 4:00 pm curtain. This time after you bring your child into the dressing room, please bring them to use the bathroom before leaving them with the backstage Moms in charge of their class.  Once the dancer is with their class, if you are not a volunteer, you will exit through the door you entered, outdoors to the main entrance to the audience. No one may exit to the audience from the backstage area. Dancers must remain backstage for the entire performance and all classes will be brought on stage for the finale. Please send smaller children with something to keep them busy while waiting for their turn to dance– e.g.: coloring books and crayons, a doll, puzzles, etc. (no markers please!!). You may also pack bottled water, make up and hair supplies for touch ups. ONE parent (who we can identify) will enter the band classroom entrance (where you dropped them off) to pick up your child and their belongings at the end of the show. ONLY ONE PARENT MAY ENTER TO PICK UP!!

ONCE THE SHOW STARTS THE DOORS WILL BE LOCKED AND ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WILL BE PERMITTED IN THE BACKSTAGE AREA. THERE WILL BE A SECURITY GUARD AT THE DOOR SO PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO COME BACKSTAGE DURING THE SHOW. THIS IS FOR YOUR CHILDS SAFETY AND SECURITY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

As with any theatrical production, there will be absolutely NO VIDEO TAPING OR FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY permitted during the performance. This is also for the safety of the dancers and comfort of all audience members. Please ask your guests to observe this rule as well. We have hired private security to help insure that there are no flash photos or videos. Please understand that many people are not comfortable with the possibility that video of their child may end up on a website like You Tube or Facebook without their permission. Please respect the privacy of the other children in your child’s class and do not video tape. Our DVD is digitally protected from downloading and is copy protected.

We will need parent volunteers to stay backstage with each class. If no parents are willing to stay backstage for any one class, babysitters can be arranged for an additional charge to each parent in that class. If you’d like to recommend your babysitter, please give all the contact information to Jessica.

Summer- We will be having summer camp this summer so we are hoping to have your support! We had a camp for ages 3-6 last summer and the kids had a blast! Regular classes also continue throughout the summer on an abbreviated schedule. If you have friends who want to try our studio, summer is a great time for that since it’s a mini session. Thanks for all of your recommendations! Word of mouth is our best form of advertising!

Fall- The fall session will begin Monday August 13th. Pre registration begins on Saturday May 5^th at 12 noon. Register early to ensure not only your reserved class space, but priority seating for next year’s recital! We now have waiting lists for all but one of our classes for ages 9 and younger. We thank YOU, our awesome parents, for helping us grow to this size, but please register early! We would hate to not be able to have a space for a returning dancer who misses pre registration.  Thank you all! ENJOY THE SHOW!!

Please click here to print out the DVD/volunteer form to bring to the studio.

For a complete list of the order of the show, please click here.

Please see the following videos for help with applying age appropriate make up and making a proper bun.