April 10, 2015 Dear Parents, This year marks the Silver Anniversary for CDE. 25 years have gone by so quickly! The Center for Dance Education would like to extend a special thanks to you. All year long our teachers and faculty have been privileged to watch your child grow and develop as a dancer. Thank you. Thank you for entrusting us with your dancer(s). Now, we would like to show you, not only our appreciation, but also the progress your dancer has made throughout the year. As a gift to you, we would like to present you with our Spring Concert. This is an opportunity for you to sit back, relax, and enjoy your child s dancing for you In an effort to lessen some of the stress associated with pre-concert jitters, we have put together this concert packet. This packet should help explain some of the performance related activities, such as dress rehearsal, your child s costume specifications, and some general performance protocol, as well as a map to the Township Auditorium. If this packet does not answer all of your questions, please feel free to ask. We would also like to explain how our Spring Concert is used as an integral part of our yearly curriculum. CDE is a performance based school that strives to educate young dancers in all aspects of the art of dance. Whether students are taking a class for fun or have grown up in the studio, and our pre-professional program, we strive to create a well rounded experience in technique, dance history, nutrition, audience participation, time management, and peer role modeling. As our yearly curriculum comes to a close, we use our spring concerts as an opportunity to provide the dancer with additional experience. To accomplish this, the students, faculty, and volunteers of CDE will be presenting A Salute to the Silver Screen: April 26, 2015, 3:00 p.m. at The Township Auditorium. For the classes in May, following the concert, we will be assessing and evaluating your dancer and working closely with you to prepare for the coming year of dance training. We hope that you will enjoy seeing what our dancers have accomplished this year. Again, thank you for all your patience during this concert season and we look forward to seeing you at the show! Mimi Worrell Artistic Director and Director of Faculty
Your Concert Fee Package Includes Single Student Fee $32 Multi-Student Fee $48 4 General Admission tickets to A Salute to the Silver Screen The Township Auditorium April 26, 2015 3:00 p.m. 6 General Admission tickets to A Salute to the Silver Screen The Township Auditorium April 26, 2015 3:00 p.m. These tickets can be picked up at the CMFA Lobby, see Debra, Jaci or Donna beginning April 13. In order to get your tickets your account must be paid. Additional Tickets $10.50 each Extra tickets can only be purchased at The Township Auditorium for more information call 576-2350 or visit t heir website www.thetownship.org The Center for Dance Education always likes to honor those students who have danced with us for 3, 5, 7, or 10 years. Please fill out the form on the counter at CMFA. Please write your child s name exactly how you would like it to be listed in the program.
Having the final concert of the year at the Township Auditorium is very exciting for us! For many of you who may not be familiar with the Township there are many new directives that we must follow: For rehearsal and performance please bring your child (children) to the Henderson street door entrance. There will be a security sign in desk. All parents and children must sign in. Your child (children) will be taken from the sign in desk directly to their dressing room by CDE runners/ volunteers. It is very important that for performance and rehearsal that your child comes completely dressed in costume, hair, and makeup. If your child requires a costume change bring the second costume and all accessories and let the receptionist know that your child has 1 or 2 additional costume changes. Since this is the 25 th anniversary of CDE there is a grand finale on stage t hat will include all young dancers. The children will remain in the dressing rooms until the end of the recital. They will be released to you following the performance so that you and thy can join us for the cake and punch celebration at the end of the show. They can be signed out at the security desk. You may retrieve anything left in the dressing rooms at that time. We will also bring anything remaining back to CMFA for lost and found. Map to The Township Auditorium
Important Information Concerning Rehearsal Week and Performance Day: Costumes will be distributed the week of April 13 during your regular dance class. PLEASE NOTE: IF YOUR ACCOUNT HAS AN OUTSTANDING BALANCE, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE YOUR COSTUME OR BE ABLE TO REHEARSE AND/OR PERFORM UNTIL THAT BALANCE IS PAID IN FULL. On the day of the performance (April 26) please arrive, already dressed with makeup and hair finished (please see instructions below) thirty minutes before your performance time. Undergarments Ladies should not wear panties or bras under their costumes. If support is necessary, please wear a nude colored camisole leotard (which can be purchased at any dance supply store). Please wear pink tights that are clean and in good repair. Gentlemen should wear dance belts and black tights. Makeup Each student, including male students, should wear a skin-matching pancake foundation (liquid tends to smear onto costumes) and powder, pink blush, black mascara, dark brown or black eyeliner, red lipstick (gentlemen wear a natural colored lipstick), and well-blended brown/grey, and/or lavender eye shadows (you may not wear other colored eye shadows, as they create facial distortion due to stage lighting). Level II and up should wear solid colored false eyelashes- no glitter or rhinestones are allowed on the body, except for diamond stud earrings. Hair Ladies hair should be completely slicked back (no bangs or whispies) into a high ballet bun (see below) secured with hair/bobby pins and a hair-matching hairnet. Gentlemen need to bring hairspray and bobby pins for hats. Ballet Bun To make the ballet bun: put water on the hair to just dampen it and pull it back into a high pony-tail (use hair gel and a soft, many-bristled smoothing brush to smooth the hair before putting the pony-tail elastic on). Note: bangs will need a LOT of gel to secure them when smoothed back. Twist the pony-tail around the elastic with one hand while holding the hair flat to the head with the other hand, switching hands as needed until all the hair is accounted for (the hair will look like a cinnamon bun). Take bobby or hair pins and insert them around the base of the bun making sure to catch both the hair from the bun and the hair from the scalp in order to make it secure, all the while holding the bun flat with the other hand so that the bun does not turn into a cone. Take an old-fashioned lunch-lady s hairnet and wrap it around the bun, twist and wrap again, and twist and wrap again. Add a few more pins if the hair net is a little loose. Finish by spraying the entire head with lots of hairspray smoothing away any whispies. Shoes should be clean and in good repair with no stickers, coloring, or writing. Ladies should wear pink ballet slippers, black or tan tap shoes (according to level requirements), and either black or tan jazz shoes according to your teacher s request. Gentlemen should wear black ballet slippers.
Rehearsal/ Recital Order: ACT I 9:30 That s Entertainment (VI/VII) 9:40 The King and I (I/II) 9:50 Can-Can (Sub Jr Tap) [I Love Paris and Can-Can] 10:00 Viva Las Vegas (Tap I/II) 10:10 Funny Face (VI/VII) 10:20 Saturday Night Fever (Jazz III/IV) 10:30 Shirley Temple and Bill Bojangles Robinson (Nick and Daphne) [Baby Take a Bow] 10:40 Sweet Charity (VI/VII) 10:50 Footloose [Let s Hear it for the Boy] (Jazz V) 11:00 West Side Story (Pre Ballet, Primary Ballet, VI/VII) Tonight, Maria, I Feel Pretty, Mambo? 11:30 Hip Hop 11:40 Crying Piece 11:50 Hair ACT II 12:00 Chicago (All Jazz, Jimmy Moon) [Cell Block Tango, Cellophane, Hot Honey Rag] 12:30 Pink Panther (Pre Ballet) 12:40 Indiana Jones (Boys Class) 12:50 James Bond (VI/VII) 1:00 Grease (Musical Theatre) [Greased Lightning, We Go Together, Summer Nights] 1:10???? Piece (VI/VII) 1:20 Blues Brothers (Jr Tap) [Everybody Needs Someone to Love] 1:30 Sound of Music (II, III, IV) [Do Re Mi, Favorite Things, 16 Going On 17] 2:00 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Diamonds are a Girl s Best Friend] (Senior Tap) 2:10 Mary Poppins (Lex Primary and I/II, IV, V) Step in Time, Spoonful of Sugar, Supercalifagilicious, Let s Go Fly a Kite 2:50 Scent of a Woman (VI/VII) 3:00 An American in Paris 3:30 Ballerinas 4:10 Finale [Shall We Dance]
Picture Day: April 29 & 30- Times To Be Announced On picture day, please arrive in costume with hair and makeup done 15 minutes prior to scheduled picture time. Class and individual photos will be taken. We would like to have everyone for complete class pictures. Please let us know before hand, through an e-mail, if you don t plan to attend. Pictures will be scheduled by level, not class time, regardless of usual location for your child s class. All students in the level should be ready at the times are to be announced. Please be on time!! As we will have limited time, we will not be able to go back and retake photos. Directions to CMFA Artspace- Vista Studio CMFA Arts Space 914 Pulaski Street Columbia, SC 29201 From Lexington - Take Hwy 1. - This turns into Gervais Street as you cross the bridge. - Pulaski is the first right after you cross Huger. - The CMFA Arts Space is down on the left. From Columbia - Take Hwy 1/Gervais Street.