On April 10th, from 1:30 to 5:30, you will have the opportunity to view and purchase the photos that were taken by Donner Photographic on March 27th. At this time, you may reserve space for your child’s individual photo to appear in the program. We ask that you support this effort in order to be able to provide your guests who attend our show a 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 in the program!
The fees for individual space are as follows:
1/4  page- $65.    1/2  page- $100.     Full page- $200.

Tickets/DVDs

On April 19th your ticket and DVD order is due but you may turn it in on April 10th. Please turn in an envelope with $20 per ticket enclosed, 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 payment by April 19th you will lose your place in the seating order.
A DVD order form is attached to this letter.

You will be seated according to when you registered (the first person pre registered back in Spring of ’09 will be seated the furthest forward ….etc. )

Dress Rehearsal
Dress rehearsal is Monday, May 3 and mandatory for all recital participants. Please be there by 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 off at the entrance to the band classroom, in the front of the school. Jessica will be checking you in at the entrance to the classroom. You may then drop off your child’s belongings in their assigned dressing room. From there, bring your child 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.  While it is not a closed rehearsal, we ask that you don’t bring guests. 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).

We will start with the finale first

We will then run the show from beginning to end without stopping in order to rehearse quick costume changes. If after we run the whole program we think we need to run certain routines again, we will at this time. In order to end earlier, we will NOT have an intermission between the 2 acts for the dress rehearsal. We will do our best not to keep the children there any longer than absolutely necessary. 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!!). However they are welcome 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). They may then either leave or sit in the audience and watch the rest of the rehearsal. Please do not let them run around and distract the dancers who are on stage rehearsing.

Since the 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. Thanks in advance! The running time should be about 3 hours.

Recital

Recital day is Sunday May 16th. All dancers must be backstage no later than 11:30AM for 12 noon curtain. This time after you bring your child into the dressing room, you will leave them with the backstage Mom assigned to their class, then exit through the door you entered, out to the main entrance to the audience. No one may exit to the audience from the backstage area. They must remain backstage for the entire performance and all dancers will be brought on stage for the finale. Don’t forget those toys to keep little ones busy! 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.

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. Every year we seem to have issues with families who have difficulty following this rule. It makes for some very uncomfortable moments during the performance.

We have contracted with TImeline Productions to film the recital. You will be able to purchase a DVD for $65.00. Please fill out the order form enclosed and return it to us. The DVD is now copy protected and cannot be reproduced.

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 9th. Pre registration begins on Saturday May 8th. 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 fails to pre register in May.

On behalf of Jamey, Jessica, Debbie, Kim, Chris, Shawna, Michael and myself- we want to say “break a leg” to all of our beautiful and talented dancers!

Sincerely,

Suzanne Citere
Director
Realdance

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.