NEW PDC 2013-2014 performance in Concert: Change

CHANGE with PERFORMANCE!!!!
New company!  You will only do the dance and be introduced on FRIDAY!!! 

Mt. Ridge's concert is Thursday and our dancers from Mt. Ridge can't be in two places at the same time :)

We are having a practice this Saturday, May 4th from 1-3pm at Lone Peak to review and space the choreography.

You will perform on Friday, May 11th only.  Concert starts at 7:00pm

CONCERT WEEK SCHEDULE

PDC Concert Week Schedule

Time       Auditorium             Dance Room                 

4/29 (B) MONDAY: Floor
B4            start laying floor
1:30-4:30 Lay Floor, help with lights
4:30-6:30 Finale and Caine space

4/30 (A) TUESDAY: Spacing
2:30-3:00                                   Warm-Up: Natalie
3:00-4:00 Space: Natalie
4:00-5:00 Space: Hip Hop         Clean: Akaysha
5:00-6:00 Space: Akaysha         Clean: Hip Hop
6:00-7:00 Space: Mandi

5/1 (B) WEDNESDAY: Spacing
B4                                             Warm-Up: Kalli
2:30-3:30 Space: Autumn         Clean: Kalli
3:30-4:30 Space: Kalli              Clean: Autumn
4:30-5:30 Space: Clean:            Clean:
5:30-6:30 Space: light Kalli?     Clean:

5/2 (A) THURSDAY: Lights
2:30-3:30 Light: Finale
4:00         NHS in Auditorium 4-7 pm DRILL try outs in dance room 4pm
                Knight of Recognition 7-10 pm
4-7 PM  PDC Dances needing CLEANING in Little Theater
4-5: Nyah
5-6: Natalie
6-7: Hip Hop

5/3 (B) FRIDAY: Lights
B4 Light: Caine's
2:30-3:30 Light: Autumn
3:30-4:30:

5/4 (A) SATURDAY: Clean and Space
8:00-10:00:
10:00-12:00:
1:00-3:00 NEW PDC DANCE NEW PDC DANCE

5/6 (A) MONDAY: Light
1:30-2:30 Light: Kalli? Attendance school? Clean: Autumn
2:30-3:30 Light: Akaysha                            Clean:
3:30-4:30 Light: Hip Hop                            Clean: Akaysha
4:30-6:00 Light: Nyah                                 Clean: Hip Hop

5/7 (B) TUESDAY: Light and Run
B4:  TBA
2:30-3:30 Light: Dance 1                           Clean:
3:30-4:30 Light: Dance 3                           Clean:
4:30-5:30 Light: Natalie
5:30-6:30 Light: Mandi                              Clean:
Light: Senior?                                             Clean:

5/8 (A) WEDNESDAY: DRESS REHEARSAL!!!
Warm-up:
Light Middle Schools?
Show Run in Costume

5/9 (B) THURSDAY: CONCERT!!!
B4: TBA
Call:
Warm-up: Di Lello
Thought:  Kalli

5/10 (A) FRIDAY: CONCERT!!!!
Call:
Warm-up: Di Lello
Thought:  Natalie

PDC this week, and our upcoming CONCERT!!!

Hello lovely ladies!

Good job to those that tried out for PDC for next year!  The list with the new member's names has been given to the counselor to put in.  Leave it blank, B8 (B-day 4th period) on your schedule.  

New Members, you will be performing Nat's combo in the dance concert.  Date and time of a short 1-2 hour rehearsal tba shortly.  Also, Congrats to Akaysha Greer, next year's PDC President!

Thursday is when we should have our dances cleaned, as per our calendar.  Please work hard!  

Costumes:  It is almost past the deadline to purchase costumes that will need to be shipped.  I hope we can use things we already have, or find some cheap things in nearby stores.  Choreographers, please be on top of costuming your dance.

Choreographers:  Whitney is working hard trying to put together the concert program on her own time.  Please get all information to her as soon as possible, including title, music artist, dancers, and any notes.

Choreographers, have your music cut by this Thursday.  If you need help, Mrs. D, Akaysha, and some others may be able to help with music editing.  If you have a mac and garage band, it is really easy.

Finale:  Natalie and Kalli will be working with you on the finale and should have the music cut this week.  Grade levels, have your sections of choreography completed this week and cleaned as much as possible.  We will be doing some of this in class.

Natalie's Dance:  we will be working on this in class, (as well as the finale).  

Extra practices:   your choreographer may have called an extra emergency practice to finish off or clean their dance.  Now is crunch time, and you need to attend and be on time to every practice.  

I know this Saturday morning Natalie, and Whit/Kenna are having an extra practice.  Please check with your choreographers.

Mandi's Practice:  Due to Junior registration, Mandi's practice was changed from Monday to this Wednesday, right after Autumn's dance. 

Nyah's Practice:  Due to missing dancers, also because of registration, Nyah will be having a practice this Thursday following Autumn/Kalli's dance, right at 3:40pm.

Poster:  Ashlyn, Akaysha, and Natalie, please send your outline drawing of how you want the poster, along with the picture/photo to Mrs. Di Lello as soon as possible, early this week.  If you can do it on your own without my help, in photoshop or some other program, please do so.   

Slide Show:  Please send your favorite photos from this past year to McKenna.  I think Kenna and Whitney were going to put together the slide show, with a Vegas section.  We can show this at intermission or right before the finale.

Tickets:  Who was making these?  We will also need volunteers (parents) to sell/take tickets and concessions both days of our concert.

All info for concert (poster, slideshow, program, tickets):  please approve and run a draft by me, Mrs. Di Lello for approval, then they will be sent off to the printers.  You do get NHSDA points for doing this, as you are helping "put on" the concert!

National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA):

If you want to be inducted or get extra points (starts) please turn in your packet no later than Friday of this week for processing.  If you have not been inducted you will need to pay the induction fee.  If you are graduating and want honor cords, please also pay the according fee and get all of your info in to me so I can order them.

SCHEDULE for CONCERT WEEK:

I hope you have gotten off your work and made appropriate arrangements for these upcoming 2 weeks.  If there are some extenuating circumstances, please let me know no later than this WEDNESDAY the day and the latest you can stay at the school, and the earliest you can come back to the school.  I know that things sometimes come up and I will try my best to arrange certain dances to be at the best times.  I will try to have most of our practices done no later than 8:00pm, but this all depends on the techies and your patience.  Guest choreographers, please get me the all the times you are available to space and light your piece.  I want to get our schedule out to everyone by the end of this week (fingers crossed).

Remember, when you are not spacing or lighting on the stage, you will be cleaning your dance in the dance room.  

Parents:  We would love to have parents bring some snacks and drinks on the nights of our lighting and tech-ing.  We will have a sign up in the dance room and will be asking the dancers to sign you up for a certain day for either a snack or drinks.  

Our concert (not recital) is only as good as you make it.  You are all beautiful and talented!  Let's put forth the little extra effort to show everyone how amazing we are!  This does require work, and work pays off :)

More and updated info will be posted often here on our blog.  Keep checking!

Love you all!  Keep being amazing!

~ Mrs. Krista Di Lello

Lone Peak High School - Highland, Utah
Dance Educator / Performing Dance Company Director

PDC 2013-2014

Good job to everyone that tried out!  Remember to keep auditioning and to never give up!  This is not the end, only the beginning.  Remember the quote I gave in the audition:

If you did not make it this year, please try out again next year.  For some of you, I want to see you in the other LP dance classes and see you investment and improvement, and would love to see you on PDC in following years.

LOVE YOU ALL!!!


For those that did make it onto this list...
This is not a guarantee you will be on next year for it may be contingent upon some of the following:

*required forms are not turned in
*missing teacher recommendations
*probationary until grades are fixed
*more technique is required, especially over the summer
*poor teacher recommendations and personal interview is needed
*needing to enroll in Lp Dance 2 or Dance 3 (this is a requirement for PDC)
You will get a personal email with what specific things I will be needing from you.

CONGRATULATIONS: 
Sabrina Christensen
Kelzie Devitt
Bailey Frampton
Maya Fraser
Meghan Freeze
Akaysha Greer
Megan Hendricks
Erin Hodgson
Monica Hymas
McKenna Kirkland
Alexis McAllister
Brielle Moon
Chayn Odette
Carleigh Paulin
Whitney Rovig
Kayla Shaw
Autumn Schoemig
Bronwyn Varner

Important Info for New PDC:

Lp PDC Spring Concert is May 9-10th at 7:00 pm.  Please come (you get in for free).  You will be performing Natalie's Contemporary Combo right before the finale at the end of the concert to introduce the audience to next year's team.  Please make every effort to be there.  We will have a short 1-2 hour practice to space everyone out and review the combo, with date TBA.  Keep checking this blog and your email and join our PDC facebook pages!  Also please add the PDC google calendar to your calendar for important upcoming dates and assignments.

A New Member and Parent Meeting will be held after the PDC Concert, date TBA.  We will review the expectations, requirements, etc. for the upcoming year.  I will be printing off our dates and info for you to give to your studios, in hopes we can work together with scheduling to support our dancers.

Before the school year ends, we will have a New Member Social.  Here I would also like to vote and appoint Officers for PDC so the officers and I can start working over the summer making plans and getting things ready.

We will be having some socials, planning meetings, and perform in some parades throughout the summer for those that are available and around.    Right before school starts (or soon after) we will have a PDC retreat and getting-to-know-you team building social/overnight trip as well.

This is going to be a great year! I am very excited to get to WORK!  (Keep up your push-ups)

Mrs. Di Lello

Audition Results

Hello lovely dancers!

I'm finishing going through the applications.  This is always a hard decision the judges had to make, and now I am fine-combing the information.  You are all great!

I will post the new company on here byt 9:00 pm tonight.

Mrs. Di Lello

Auditions are this week!

Auditions for PDC are THIS WEEK!!!

Clinic is Thursday and Friday
Auditions are Saturday morning!!!!

Try this link for the Audition Application.  You "should" be able to submit it online by clicking on the top right button that says "submit"

Please fill out, submit, and also print/bring the appropriate forms.  For the PDC contract, please only print off the last page and sign.

Nicely remind your teachers to submit their teacher recommendations online as soon as possible :)

Good Luck!