CSDA May 2023 Newsletter

Recital Count Down Begins!

No Classes or office Hours Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, 2023

Costume Pick up week is May 1st - 6th

The time has come that dancers can bring their costumes home! The costume bags will contain their costume(s), recital accessories, detailed instructions and recital ticket order envelopes. All tuition, late fees & recital accessories must be paid in full before your dancer can bring costumes & recital accessories home. If you are bringing payment with you to the studio, please hand payment directly to a staff member. Please do not put payment in the desk.


On Monday, May 1st we will send out our recorded recital information video to all parents. After watching the video and reading through the newsletter and recital site please bring us any questions this week.


All things related to the recital can be found here in more detail!


Reminders:

*Costume Pick Up 1st week of May

https://sites.google.com/view/2023-csda-recital/home/costume-pick-up


*Picture Day Sitting Fee posted in your portals today, May 1st (Please email tiffany@centerstagestudios.net if you are unable to participate and we will remove the fee.)


*Virtual Parent Meeting recording is here https://vimeo.com/822737452?share=copy. Please watch before class and come with your questions.


*Picture Day is May 20th for Senior classes and May 21st for all other classes. If you would like a buddy or sibling picture please fill out this form by May 18th. There will be no time slots available for buddy/sibling pictures after May 18th. Please check out the recital site for picture day times.

https://sites.google.com/view/2023-csda-recital/home/picture-day


*Dance A Gram due by Sunday, May 14th

https://sites.google.com/view/2023-csda-recital/home/dance-a-gram


*Ticket Sales Drawing May 27th

https://sites.google.com/view/2023-csda-recital/home/recital-ticket-sales


*Dress Rehearsal June 5th -10th during your child's last class

https://sites.google.com/view/2023-csda-recital/home/dress-rehearsal-week


*Tech Rehearsal June 13th & June 14th

https://sites.google.com/view/2023-csda-recital/home/tech-rehearsal

Volunteers for the Recital are Needed

If you have a dancer in multiple shows, we could use your help! If you are able to volunteer during the recital, please fill out this form. Don't worry, with volunteering you will not miss any of your dancers' routines. Please reach out with any questions.

40th Anniversary Recital Bundles

We have bundled some of our items together and took off 40% in honor of our 40th anniversary! These orders are only available for a limited time and we have limited quantity. To order fill out this form.
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Rollover Registration and Class Recommendations

Rollover Registration begins today! Your discounted rollover registration fee of $20 per dancer ($35 per family) will be in your portals after autopay goes through for tuition. Our race to registration will begin TODAY for early registration.

Class recommendations for your dancer are in your portals highlighted in blue. There might be some classes in registration that are not highlighted. That class could have been missed (human error) or it has a prerequisite. If you have a younger dancer, please reach out with questions about class placements. Older dancers, please direct your class placement questions to Miss Tiffany.


When registering please make sure to click the 2023-2024 tab. The race to registration will end May 15th when the 2023/24 schedule will open to the public and registration fees will be $30 per dancer ($50 per family). Registration fees are nonrefundable.

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CSDA Family News

Congratulations to all our CSDA dancers' accomplishments! Here are the ones we have seen:


Emerson Snee, Katherine Hawkins and Isabella Bishop were all on honor roll this past semester.


Kaelyn McDonough received an award for outstanding performance in Latin


Jennifer Jodice got into Emmanuel College for Neuroscience.


Leah Lindsey, Alex Long and Jack Burke played in front of the Lincoln Memorial with their High School Marching Band.

Katie MacNeill, Carly West, Chloe Whalen & Sky Whalen were in Les Miserables at Sandwich High School.


Aubrey Woods was in the play Chicago at DY.


Miss Brogan got to see Colbie Rogers perform in her school play at TNT.


Charlotte was Narrator #1 (and a spoon, a wolf, and a townsfolk), Madelynne Cox was the enchantress and Nora Lindsey was Maurice and the Book Seller in the PSMS production of Beauty and the Beast.


April 7th & 8th Faye Poremski performed in Ice Chips- the longest running ice show in the world- she got to share the ice with 2022 Olympic Champion Nathan Chen, as well as many other National and International medalists.


Emerson Snee received her point shoes.

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CSDA Staff News

Miss Diana attended her Fitchburg State dance club 40th reunion and bumped into CSDA alumni Phoebe Cardoso who is a current member!


Miss Tiffany was busy over vacation judging and teaching in Chicago for the guiDance Experience competition. Alumni Caitlin Conway joined her working backstage for the competition and Ambassador Mary Pizano performed and assisted at the event. Ambassador Katie MacNeil went to Buffalo, New York to perform and assist the following weekend!


Congratulations to Miss Julia and her husband Wes on the birth of their beautiful baby girl!

Vivian Jean Sykes on 4/14/2023. We are so happy for you guys.

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Monthly Fundraiser

Thank you so much for donating to the Luv Michael Fundraiser. We raised a total of $7379!!


Our May fundraiser will be for the Nathan Hale foundation to honor our local Veterans. They have a food pantry and are in need of food, and toiletries. For items donated please write your name on the paper on the wall to be entered into our raffle. We will be giving away one complimentary ticket to the Recital! All donations considered for raffle need to be in by May 27th. They are in need of......toothpaste & brushes, shaving cream, razors, shampoo, soap, bottled juice, soup, rice, scalloped & augratin potatoes, oatmeal, and lots of Jelly!

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If your dancer is interested in the Outreach Team, come to the audition this month! There is an overview about the Outreach Team and financial commitments in our form. There is also a sample calendar on the performances the Outreach Team does.

Auditions:

Ages 10+ Friday, May 12th at 5:45pm (Plymouth Studio)

Ages 5-9 Saturday, May 13th at 11:15am (Plymouth Studio)

Please fill out this form before coming to audition.

CSDA Outreach Team News

Congratulations to the 2023 NHSDA inductees Erin Ryan, Ashley Coveney, Kaitlyne Macedo, Katie MacNeill and Molly Ryan.
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What an amazing show this past weekend! We hope everyone enjoyed our 3rd Annual Outreach Showcase and thank you for coming. We are so proud of each and every team member and can't wait to see you grow even more next season.


Ongoing Fundraisers:

The Outreach Team collects register receipts from Clements Market in Manomet. Please drop receipts into studio desk located at both studios.

Recital Dances & Music

Along with the recital music, we are adding videos of your dancer's recital routines to your parent portal! We know many of our dancers love to practice at home and we hope this bonus material helps. Also, you will see in your parent portal that we have added the finale music.


The recital routine videos will be in your portals by May 6th. You will find them in your parent portal under files and then click class files.


You will receive an email when the videos have been uploaded.

Parent Participation Week

Thank you to all the parents who were able to join their dancers for participation week! We were so excited to have you join the fun and dance with you your dancers.

Look at all these dancers striking poses all over the Country during spring break!

CSDA Contact Information:

*Absences for all dancers should be reported in your parent portal under attendance. If you would like to schedule a make up class you can write it in when reporting the absence.

* Tuition, Parent Portal, Online Store and Used Shoe questions can be emailed to Asmith@centerstagestudios.net

*Studio related questions or concerns and questions about dancers' progress and placement should be emailed to tiffany@centerstagestudios.net

*All Outreach/Leadership/Assisting questions should be emailed to tiffany@centerstagestudios.net -If an assistant has a last minute cancellation of their assistant class(es) please text the studio cell 774-343-9209.

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