Pofahl Studios     69th Annual Recital

Aladdin

Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

May 25th @ 2:00 PM at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

Rehearsal: May 24th 2-6 PM.   See bulletin board.  

Your child’s rehearsal time will be time specific and you will be provided a sheet with that time. 

 It will also be posted at https://www.pofahldancestudio.com/recital.

 

TICKETS: 

• Each family is provided 4 tickets and available at the studio beginning May 15th.

• Tuition MUST be current for a student to perform in the recital.

• You may purchase additional tickets from the Phillips Center, as available, beginning May 25th.

 

YOUR "TO DO" LIST!

• Find out from your dancer or their teacher what shoes are needed and order them NOW!  Order new pointe shoes NOW!

• Set aside a good pair of pink tights for your ballet dancer.  (one or two for older dancers.)

• Find out if your dancer needs anything special for their dance. (Shoes, tights, socks, etc.)

• Start checking https://www.pofahldancestudio.com/recital .

• SIGN UP TO BE A PARENT SPONSOR!   PLEASE DO SIGN UP! 

 

FAMILY DANCE Rehearsals May 10th & May 17th from 12-2:30 and 2:30-4.   You must attend 2 rehearsals. Sign up sheet on door to office!

 

SPONSORS & BACKSTAGE: IF YOU ARE NOT A SPONSOR OR STAFF WITH A NAME TAG—YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED BACKSTAGE OR IN THE DRESSING ROOMS.     

 

All teachers will be looking for adult sponsors. Sponsors make sure dancers arrive on stage on time, help with costume changes, and take care of minor problems. Sponsors do not need tickets.   Sponsor orientation meetings will be held May 7th at 4:00 and May 10th from at 10. 

 

BEFORE RECITAL: If your dancer is in more than one dance, please put additional costumes in BROWN PAPER BAGS (NOT dress bags or hangers or plastic bags) with the dancer’s name AND DANCE # on it.  The bag should include shoes, tights, headpiece, hairpins, etc.  DO bring a bag for your first costume – again marked with name and #.  ALL items (shoes, costume, etc.) should be labeled with the child’s name in magic marker.  If your dancer has more than one dance or a quick change, they will need to take that that bag to the courtesy table in the lobby

 

DRESSING ROOMS:  Students will be assigned dressing rooms.

 

HAIR & MAKE-UP: Your child’s teacher will talk to you about hair, make-up, tights, shoes, etc. Because we will be using the full stage lighting at the Phillips Center, your child will need some make-up.

 

REHEARSAL INFORMATION:

WHEN: See schedules posted on bulletin board.

 

1. You should bring your dancer IN THEIR FIRST COSTUME 1/2 hour before they are scheduled to perform to the foot of the stairs in the lobby. Check the program order in the lobby and on the website – and the sheet provided you by your child’s teacher- which will provide you the time you should perform.  

2. If your dancer is in only one dance — enter the lobby and take your dancer to the stairs. Turn them over to one of our runners. You will not be allowed in the balcony. DON’T ASK! We need to control any access to the balcony and your child. The runners will take your child to the class sponsors. The sponsors will make sure the class gets to the stage and back to the balcony. They will assure that anyone who needs to gets to the bathroom.

3. If your dancer is in more than one dance — same as above!

4. PARENTS …now need to go away and take a break.  Following your child’s last dance, the sponsors will bring the class to the lobby for pick up.  Figure on 20 minutes after their last dance.

 

YOU WILL NEED TO RETURN COSTUMES TO THEIR “BAGS” AFTER THE REHEARSAL SO THAT YOU WILL BE PREPARED FOR THE RECITAL.

 

RECITAL PROCEDURE

Sunday, May 25th at 2:00 PM  Phillips Center.

• Follow the same procedure with your child as above.

 

• ALL dancers are to remain upstairs with their class.  NO dancers are allowed downstairs in the audience while in costume.

 

DO NOT ASK YOUR CHILD TO MEET YOU.  THE SPONSORS WILL BRING THE CLASS TO THE LOBBY FOLLOWING THE REHEARSAL.

 

• AFTER THE LAST DANCE – AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS ARE GIVEN OUT – WE WILL DISMISS CLASSES FROM THE STAGE ONE AT A TIME

 

FYI:

• Stacy Ellis, Melissa Hall and Lara Thompson are in charge of the balcony and will provide direction to the class sponsors.   ONLY THESE PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED IN THE BALCONY FOR THE SAFETY OF YOUR DANCER..

 

• ONLY FACULTY, AND RECITAL STAFF ARE ALLOWED BACKSTAGE.

 

OLDER DANCERS:  As usual, enter and leave through the stage door.  If meeting and greeting on stage – leave as soon as possible, but don’t forget to clean-up your dressing room and take dancewear and shoes!

 

YOUNGER DANCERS:

• If only one dance -arrive in costume to the lobby and proceed upstairs to the sponsor.  You will have a helper.    Leaving rehearsal – pick up in lobby.   Leaving recital – pick up from stage.

• If multiple dances. Arrive in first costume.  A helper will take your other costume to the changing room.  PLEASE put additional costumes in the brown bags as described earlier.   Your child’s sponsor will get them to the changing room and staff/parents will assist them in changing and getting to the proper place.  Brown bags with your child’s name and class number are critical!   

             Leaving rehearsal – pick up in lobby.   Leaving recital – pick up from stage.

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