Choreographer Program Info and Checklist

PDC Choreographers: Media Upload

Please submit your music
and optional image/video for the cyc behind your dance (at least 720 P resolution)



Or click on the following link: https://goo.gl/iLEucd

Some upcoming dates and info

PDC and parents,

If you have not joined our Performing Dance Co. 2015-16 Facebook group, the Class Pager teacher text, or the "GroupMe" group PDC text and respond to everyone, please do so.

Make sure you have updated your contact info on the spreadsheet and you have your sizes into Mariah.

A few things are coming up.  Events/activities with * are considered mandatory.  This is tentative, as more performance, fundraisers, socials, and events may be added.

July
Wed-Th July 14-15th: RDT HS workshop (with dancers who rsvp-ed)
Sat July 18: PDC Pool Party Social (and booster club meeting): 1:30 @Colmere's house
Saturday mornings in July: PDC Conditioning (with Sav): 9-10:30am @ front of LP

August

* Aug 3-8th: PDC Summer Dance Camp @ Lp dance room 8am - 5pm, with 2 days at Ririe-Woodbury High School dance workshop

Aug 22nd: PDC hike Timp - team building.  (we would love any parents that would like to join us)

PDC Overnight Retreat: date TBA???? 

September

*Sat Sep 26th: Homecoming 1/2 Time blocking: all teams 8am-11am @ Lp Football Field

*Wed Sep 30th: Homecoming 1/2 Time cleaning: all teams 6:15 AM @ Lp Maroon Gym

*Wed Sep 30th: Evening of Shakespeare performance: 7pm @ LP Auditorium

October

*Thurs Oct 1-3rd:  Shakespeare Festival and Competition @ SUU

*Wed Oct 7th: Homecoming 1/2 Time blocking: all teams 6:15 AM @ Lp Football Field

*Thurs Oct 8th: Homecoming 1/2 Time cleaning: all teams 6:15 AM @ Lp Maroon Gym

*Fri Oct 9th: Homecoming 1/2 Time Performance @ 7pm?

December

Video submission for choreography to National HS Dance Festival due Begining of December!

*Dec 1-12th: PDC in Auditorium for spacing, tech, and dress (after school until evening)

*Thurs Dec 10th: Full Dress Rehearsal

*Fri-Sat: PDC Concert.  Call 5pm.  Curtains 7pm.

Breathe!  Repeat!

Excellent Job at the Performance Dancers!

Thanks to August Miller Photography for the beautiful pictures he took of the team!!!!

Some pics from the semester off my phone

PDC Dance Practice Schedule: After School Student Choreography

Please make sure you and your parents are aware of which dances you are in.  You MUST be at ALL practices for the pieces you are in!!!  Every practice is essential.

Every Friday B8 in class we will do showings.  Parents and others are welcome to come and watch and give feedback of our works in progress during our showings, which will start at 1:30 pm.

Nov 1:  Dances need to be half choreographed

Nov 15:  Dances need to be finished choreographed

Nov 25:  Dances should be cleaned

Soon after is the Thanksgiving Break.  Upon returning we go into the 2 weeks of concert prep staying after school doing spacing, tech-ing, lighting, dress rehearsal, etc.  

PDC FINALS Info!!!

Beautiful Dancers!!!
I can't believe that this is almost over!

We have all grown so much this year; grown together, grown in our dancing, grown in choreography, and grown as a dancing family and team.  I love you guys!!!  You will all always be a part of our dancing family --PDC Alumni!

So here is the info and deal in regards to your final and assignments:

Thursday, May 23rd at 7:00 PM:  PDC Closing Social at Natalie/Monica's House.
-Bring your potluck food/drink assignment
-Bring your "secret friend" note and $15 max gift
-Fill out the Dancer Awards Survey!!!

FINAL (A and B)
A)  WRITTEN FINAL:  Due on Tuesday, May 28th (B8 Final Time)
"What I Have Learned From Being on PDC"
Do one OR the other:
-BLOG post on the PDC Blog (www.lphspdc.blogspot.com).  Include pictures with captions.  Include writing about "What I learned on PDC."
OR
-PAPER: Two page type written paper, double-spaced, about what I have learned throughout the year from being on PDC

B)  DANCING/COMPOSITION FINAL:  Due on Tuesday, May 28th (B8 Final Time)
Group Choreography with choice of prop, then assigned music.
-Costumes, Dance Title required.
-1 minute of choreography unique and specific to a theme developed by inspiration from the prop.
-performance, technique, creativity, innovation, group contribution to choreography, performance, and choreographic elements graded.

PDC Concert Post-Reflection Self-Assessment
You must do both, even if you didn't choreography.  If you didn't choreograph, choose a dance you were in and answer the questions as if you were the choreographer.  Be sure to "SUBMIT" both!!!

Concert Choreography Reflection
and
Concert Self-Evaluation

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

Dance Field Trip 12/12/12 (Rire-Woodbury)

HELLO!

If you have not done a Concert Report yet, please attend this "school excused" field trip to see the Rire-Woodbury Dance Co. Matinee Performance.

It is this Wednesday 12/12/12
We will leave Lone Peak at 10:00 AM
Concert is at 11:00 AM
We will arrive back in time for A4

Cost: $5 (even for parent chaperones)
I will be looking for about 3 chaperones to join us.

Here is the link for the permission form you can print off!
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bw7Njq8cxVXVbUdaa1Q4SWhvbm8

Please read the form.  NOTE:  You will not be excused from your first or last period classes!

concert week schedule

Email sent out reads as follows. 

Please read and keep! Important information included for these next 2 weeks.

Please have your parents sign up to bring drinks/snacks and to help at the concert! 

Choreographers: use your time wisely (especially any time not in the auditorium)!  Avoid extra practices if possible. 
Choreographers:  email you final cut music to Mrs. Di Lello no later than this Wednesday.
Choreographers:  fill out a lighting sheet, make sure you have everything for your costumes, put/type all of your dance (including title, music, dancers, notes/quote, choreographers, etc. into the program no later than this Thursday.
Choreographers:  do something nice for your dancers :)

Accept the facebook invite for the concert event, and invite all of your friends.  Put the poster jpeg as your wall photo for the concert.

All dancers,
please remember it is a "privilege" not a "right" to be on a company and school team. You are always auditioning.   Be positive and work hard.  This concert, YOUR concert, will only be as good as YOU make it!  Please be appreciative and respectful to your teachers and choreographers from here on out.

Love you all!

Mrs. Di Lello

Back from Break, Starting Concert Prep!!!

HI!!!  

Hope Everyone had a Happy Turkey Day (as my 3 yr. old son calls it)!

Here is a temporary show order proposal.  Let me know if I missed anything.  I tried to make it so there are not too many costume changes and that not all the same styles of dance or themes are next to each other.  For example some similar ones could be: (UVU is doing a dance on the over-use of technology, Dance 2: "there's an app for that", Curiosity: robot, Jailbreak: hip hop).

I will send the schedule for this week.  Plan on staying every evening until 8pm, except Monday.  Next week, it may be later.  This is mandatory for these next 2 weeks!  Next week will require you to stay later, especially on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Prepare for this.  Bring homework, snacks, etc.  Choreographers, you should be cleaning your dance ever chance you get.  Choreographers must be prepared to light their dances with their lighting sheet filled out before they go up to the lighting booth!  

We welcome parents to bring snacks and drinks during our long nights in the auditorium.  If one parent wants to be in charge of a sign up for this, that would be awesome.  We will also need help/volunteers for selling/taking tickets and selling concessions.  We welcome help when we are laying the floor (this Wednesday right after school) and when we are striking the stage next Friday night (taking up the floor/cleaning up) right after the show.  

All dancers must stay and be a part of all set up, clean up, and the productions process.  Putting on a concert (including students learning how to space and light their own dances) is part of the core curriculum for Dance Company.

Here is a proposed show order:

		HAIR	NOTES
	Pre-Show Flash Mob BTC
1	Curiosity
2	Social Dance
3	Shakespeare Trio
4	Dance 2: Apps
5	Ashlyn: 911
6	Jazz
7	Cierra/Kalli duet
8	Middle School?
9	Shakes. Ensemble
10	UVU Synergy
INTERMISSION
11	Dance 3: Hunger
12	White Christmas
13	Jail Break
14	Autumn’s
15	Kira Solo
16	Middle school?
17	Kalli Solo
18	Shakespeare Act
19	Homecoming Final