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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.
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