PART 8: Recital Day Information and Policies

Recital Dates and Times

Saturday, June 14, 2008

MacDonald Auditorium

Crescenta Valley High School

4400 Ramsdell Avenue

La Crescenta, CA 91214

11:00 a.m.

2:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m.

Recital Performance Arrival and Dismissal

Parents or guardians should bring the students to their assigned drop off area, where they will be checked in and placed under the supervision of their backstage mom(s). Attached at the end of this Handbook is a diagram of the MacDonald Auditorium area of Crescenta Valley High School. The diagram indicates the appropriate drop off/pick up and dressing room areas.

If you are in Act 1 of any show, you must arrive 45 minutes before the show is scheduled to begin in full costume, hair and makeup. You will be given instructions at Dress Rehearsal where to check-in. If you are in Act 2, you must report backstage at the beginning of the intermission before your Act. You will be given instructions at Dress Rehearsal where to check-in.

Back-stage Mothers only stay with the students from the beginning of their Act until they perform. Once your child has performed, you must retrieve him/her from the stage door. If your child is in more than one dance, a parent or guardian must come backstage to their child’s designated area after their dance and assist their own child to change. No Dads please in the girls changing areas. There will be separate boys and girls changing areas.

Please only get up from your seat between numbers and not during a dance, the person next to you’s child may be performing.

Dressing-Room Etiquette

Dancers must respect other dancers’ space and property in the dressing rooms. The dancers will spend more time in the dressing rooms than onstage, so please do your best to keep them organized and clean. No food or drink is allowed in the dressing rooms except water. While in the Dressing Room area, RDC will provide dancers with water and small non-messy snacks.

Tips for Parents

• MacDonald Auditorium is NOT air-conditioned. We have requested that the circulation fans be turned on but it will be very warm. Please make sure that you dress for the summer heat.
• If you purchase general admission tickets, the entry line starts outside. Be Prepared to wait in line outside for your seats. The lobby/house doors will open 1 hour before show time and the auditorium doors will open 30 minutes before show time.
• Dancers are permitted to go into the audience for the Recital, if a ticket/seat has been purchased (dancers over 5) and they are dressed in street clothes or in costume with a cover-up.
• RDC has ensured that dancers are well supervised backstage by providing Back-Stage Mothers. This allows parents to watch their child’s dance with ease. If you are NOT a Back Stage Mother or you are not immediately changing your child, you will not be allowed backstage or in the dressing rooms.
• Flowers and refreshments will be available for sale outside the front lobby
  proceeds will benefit JK’s Dance Company, RDC’s competition team.
• Remember:

1.       Check the website to make sure you know which tights, shoes and other accessories your child will need for recital – get your supplies early.

2. Students will need extra rest the week of the recital; it is a long week.

3.       Come into the Studio more frequently the month of May for any instructions given out at the end of your child’s dance class. Check the website and Recital Bulletin Board frequently for updated information.

4.       For the Recital, carry costumes in the provided garment bag with student’s name. Label your tights & shoes. Prepare a make-up case with the needed make-up, hair-pins, Band-Aids etc.

Video and Photography

Parents or guardians may videotape or shoot photographs of their children at the dress rehearsal. Due to the large number of cameras, no electrical outlets will be available, so be sure your batteries are fully charged. Please note: No video or photography will be allowed at the recital. Security guards or ushers will ask you to bring any cameras back to your car.

Auditorium Rules

No eating, drinking, or smoking is allowed in the auditorium or dressing rooms. When they are not onstage, dancers must remain in the dressing rooms with their back stage moms until ready to be picked up by their parent or guardian.

Indoor theatre etiquette is different from an outdoor sporting event.

Courtesy is contagious.  If the adults practice courtesy, the children will learn from that. 
Please remain seated while performers are on stage.

The use of camera or video cameras is PROHIBITED during the show.

Please turn off all cell phones and pagers during the performance.

No food or drink is permitted in the auditorium.  No smoking is permitted in the building.

Please present any flowers or gifts to performers following the show.   Do not approach the stage at any time during the show. 

Backstage

Family members and friends don’t belong backstage or in the dressing rooms during rehearsals or the recital. The same applies during intermission and after the show. There is a lot of backstage activity in a limited space, and dressing rooms are a private area. Please remind your family and guests to be respectful of these areas. Those who wish to greet a performer after the show or present flowers should do so in the lobby areas.

 Props

All props are the property of Revolution Dance Center and are to be returned to the backstage prop master after the performance. Props include such items as canes, parasols, beach balls, etc.

No video or photography will be allowed at the recital.