RECITAL TICKETS AND INFORMATION

•  Our upcoming May Dance Recitals are on Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd at Tydings Auditorium! We are performing the recital twice. Tiny Toes and Doll Baby will perform in one show, and level A and up will perform in BOTH shows. See the list below for which show your dancer(s) will be performing in. 

Friday May 2nd Show 6:30 pm:  

• Doll Baby Ballet Thursday class  
• Tiny Toes Ballet Thursday (4:00 class) 
• Tiny Toes Ballet Thursday (5:45 class) 
• ½ of Tiny Toes Pom 
• ½ of Doll Baby Acro Dance 
• ½ of Tiny Toes Acro Dance 
• All Dance Genres Levels A, B, C, D, Dance Teams, and Ballet Folklorico 

Saturday May 3rd Show 6:30 pm:  

• Doll Baby Ballet Monday class 
• Doll Baby Ballet Wednesday class 
• Tiny Toes Ballet Tuesday class 
• ½ of Tiny Toes Pom 
• ½ of Doll Baby Acro Dance 
• ½ of Tiny Toes Acro Dance 
• All Dance Genres Levels A, B, C, D, Dance Teams, and Ballet Folklorico 

DOLL BABY/TINY TOES ACRO DANCE AND TINY TOES POM SPLIT: If your dancer is in Acro Dance and/or Tiny Toes Pom AND Ballet, she will perform her Acro and/or Pom dance the same show as her Ballet. If your dancer is only in Pom and/or Acro Dance, a show will be assigned to you. You will receive a text message from the studio to let you know which show your daughter will perform in. *Arrangements have been made for all Doll Baby/Tiny Toes siblings to perform in the same show.  

BOTH SHOW REQUIREMENTS: All dance genres levels A, B, C, D, Dance Teams, and Ballet Folklorico performing in BOTH shows are required to perform in both shows and attend stage rehearsal to participate. Parents of dancers performing in both shows are welcomed and encouraged to attend both recitals and enjoy seeing their child dance twice. This is a very special opportunity to get to perform twice! 

REHEARSAL On Thursday May 1st at Tydings Auditorium: 

• All Doll Baby Classes will not be needing rehearsals at the auditorium. We will see all Doll Baby classes (ballet and acro dance) at their assigned recital 30 minutes before the show starts!
• All Tiny Toes Classes will be having rehearsal on Thursday May 1 at Tydings.  All Tiny Toes Ballet, Pom, and Acro Dance will rehearse at 4:00 pm. Please do not be late. After your dancer has practiced her dance(s) onstage, she is free to go.  A parent is required to stay at this rehearsal. Parents will watch rehearsal from the audience. We will NOT be rehearsing Tiny Toes classes in costumes. Please wear what you would wear to classes. 
• All Level A Classes will be having rehearsal on Thursday May 1st at Tydings. Drop off at 4:30 and pick up at 5:30. Please do not be late. This is a dress rehearsal.  Have all dancers brings all costumes and everything they need as if it were the show. This is a closed rehearsal; parents cannot stay and watch. Please have hair done as if it were the show, but no makeup is required for rehearsal. 
• All Level B, C, D Classes and Ballet Folklorico will be having rehearsal on Thursday May 1st at Tydings. Drop off at 5:30 and pick up at 7:30. Please do not be late. This is a dress rehearsal. Have all dancers bring all costumes and everything they need as if it were the show. This is a closed rehearsal; parents cannot stay and watch. Please have hair done as if it were the show, but no makeup is required for rehearsal. 
• All Dance Teams will have rehearsal at the auditorium from 7:30-8:30. Dancers do not need to bring their Team costumes to this rehearsal (but will need costumes for class dances at the earlier rehearsal). Team dancers will have just competed the week before in costumes so they will be ok to just do a stage rehearsal without costumes this time. This rehearsal will be in regular dance classroom attire.    

RECITAL ARRIVAL:  

• Doll Baby and Tiny Toes Dancers are to arrive backstage 30 minutes before their recital starts Fri. May 2nd OR Sat. May 3rd- 6:00pm (Rectial starts at 6:30). Please drop dancers off wearing their costume (first costume and other costume(s) in hand if more than one) with dance shoes, tights, headpiece, hair, make-up done, and ready to dance! Enter through the backstage 100 wing doors at Hobbs High School. No dance bags or any personal belongings other than what they need to perform. Snacks, water, toys, coloring pages, and a movie are provided as entertainment in the dressing room. Thier dressing room is the band room. *HAVE YOUR CHILD USE THE RESTROOM RIGHT BEFORE DROP-OFF.  PLEASE DO NOT BE LATE. NO EARLY DROP-OFFS   
• Levels A, B, C, D, Teams, and Ballet Folk. performing in BOTH shows- Drop off time:  Levels A and B and Ballet Folk: 5:45.    Levels C and D: 5:30.   Dancers arrive in their first costume with hair and makeup done and ready to dance!  All other costumes, headpieces, and shoes in hand. Enter through the backstage 100 wing doors at Hobbs High School. Bring your dance bag with everything you need and a water bottle.  All electronic devices are to be left at home or turned on silent and put away in bags. Bring coloring pages, notebooks, or card games to share with friends (optional). Level A and B dressing room is the choir room. Level C and D dressing rooms are behind the stage. HAVE YOUR CHILD USE THE RESTROOM RIGHT BEFORE DROP-OFF.  PLEASE DO NOT BE LATE. NO EARLY DROP-OFFS. 

WHAT TO WEAR:  Scroll down to “WHAT TO WEAR” to find a list of what each class needs for the recital. Please visit this page as you prepare your dancer for the recital. It has all details regarding costumes, shoes, tights, hair, make up, and more. 

BACKSTAGE VOLENTEERS: Mothers not attending both shows, please volunteer to help backstage during the show you are not watching. We greatly appreciate the help of volunteers backstage! Please contact the office to sign up. *Only mothers of dancers can volunteer to help backstage.  

MAY TUITON AND RECITAL VIDEO: The recital will end our dance season and after the recital we will be on summer break. Our next season's classes will start on August 18, 2025! We do not charge any addition recital fees outside of tuition. Rather, May's tuition goes towards recital fees. Recital fees help cover the cost for rehearsals, auditorium rental, dressing room rentals, event insurance, lighting and tech. fees, video/video editing, and more. Included with May tuition will be a digital HD copy of the recital for every family. The video will be professionally taken and edited. After editing, a downloadable link will be emailed. Once you receive it, it’s yours to do as you wish. You can send it to family members or share your child’s dance on social media. The link will eventually expire. Please make sure you download it onto a computer, flash drive, data saving website, etc. before the link expires. It will be a family treasure to have saved! May Tuition autopay will process on Friday April 25th. It will process one week early due to the first Friday in May falling on a day we are at the auditorium for rehearsal. Please contact the office if you’d like tuition to be processed on a different day. Video and pictures will not be allowed during the recital, as they are very distracting to dancers and audience members. Please be respectful to other audience members and dancers and do not use your phones/picture/video during the recital. Pictures are allowed after the recital, please feel free to take lots of pictures before and afterwards.  

NOTE TO PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN: Your child will be dropped off prior to the recital backstage and picked up after the show. YOU CANNOT PICK THEM UP WHILE THE RECITAL IS IN PROGRESS. Dancers will perform with their classes during their time on the program then return backstage to their designated area. All dancers will then be coming back onstage at the end for the finale. Unless there is an emergency, dancers will remain backstage until the allotted pickup time after the recital. There will be an all-female staff watching dancers and all teachers will be backstage the whole time as well. We have rented the choir and band rooms in the backstage hallway for young dancers to comfortably stay together during the recital. They will have snacks, coloring pages, and a movie. Please be sure to have your young dancer use the restroom before dropping them off backstage. There are restrooms backstage if needed.  

AUDIENCE ARRIVAL: The recitals will start at 6:30 pm. Doors for audience members open 20 minutes before the show starts. All audience members enter the auditorium through the front doors. As required by the auditorium manager, the front doors will lock once the recital starts. THERE WILL BE NO LATE ENTRY TO THE RECITAL. If you are late, you will not be admitted in. Please do not be late. All audience members come in through the front doors of the auditorium. Back doors are only for dropping off dancers. No food or drink in the auditorium. 

ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: We want all our dancers confident and prepared when performing. In order to do this, dancers must be attending class regularly. To participate in recitals, dancers are required to be at a 75% minimum attendance rate for Doll Baby, Tiny Toes, Level A and B, and Ballet Folklorico. For levels C and D, the required attendance rate to perform is 85%. If a dancer’s percentage drops below the required rate, it can always easily be brought back up by not missing class or attending another class as a make-up. If the dancer is at the required rate at recital time, then the dancer has met the requirement for participation. We hope to have all dancers attending class as close to 100% as possible! Please contact the office if you have any questions about your dancer’s attendance.  

FLOWERS: It is customary to give a dancer flowers after a performance. This is recommended but not required.  If you choose to bring flowers, they will need to be bought in advance.  

• Ballet Dancers

1. Pink ballet tights 
2. Pink ballet shoes in canvas or leather 
3. Costume with headpiece 
4. Hair in a high ballet bun and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume if dancer has a costume change

• Acro Dancers

1. Pink convertible ballet tights rolled up (no shoes).  
2. Costume with headpiece
3. Hair in a high ballet bun and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
4. A nude leotard underneath costume if dancer has a costume change

• Pom Dancers

1. Pink ballet tights 
2. Black jazz shoes
3. Costume with headpiece
4. Hair in a high ballet bun and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume if dancer has a costume change 

• Ballet Dancers

1. Pink ballet tights 
2. Pink ballet shoes in canvas or leather 
3. Costume with headpiece 
4. Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume if dancer has a costume change
6. Ballet will always be first in the recital. If dancers change tights from pink to suntan/nude, they put on nude tights first, then nude leotard, then pink tights, and finally the costume over pink tights. Changing from ballet to lyrical, jazz, or pom, dancers just remove their ballet costume and pink tights and already have suntan/nude tights on. The nude leotard is never taken off. 

• Lyrical Dancers

1. Suntan/nude convertible tights rolled up 
2. nude dance paws 
3. Costume with headpiece
4. Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume if dancer has a costume change

• Pom AND Jazz Dancers

1. Suntan/nude tights 
2. Black jazz shoes (tights over feet and not rolled up)
3. Costume with headpiece
4. Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume if dancer has a costume change 

• Hip hop

1. Suntan/nude tights for level A (optional nude tights or no tights for level B/C
2. Hip hop shoes
3. Costume with headpiece (if it has one)
4. Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume

• Ballet Dancers

1. Pink ballet tights- mesh with the seam down the back 
2. Pink canvas ballet shoes or pointe shoes if performing en pointe 
3. Costume with headpiece 
4. Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume 
6. Ballet will always be first in the recital. If dancers change tights from pink to suntan/nude, they put on nude tights first, then nude leotard, then pink tights, and finally the costume over pink tights. Changing from ballet to lyrical or pom, dancers just remove their ballet costume and pink tights and already have suntan/nude tights on. The nude leotard is never taken off. 
7. Pre-pointe: a long tutu is being provided by EPDA. Dancers need to provide their own solid black leotard, shoes, and tights to wear with it.  

• Lyrical Dancers

1. Suntan/nude convertible tights rolled up- Level C.  NO tights for level D.
2. nude dance paws 
3. Costume with headpiece
4. Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume

• Pom Dancers

1. Suntan/nude tights 
2. Black jazz shoes (tights over feet and not rolled up)
3. Costume with headpiece
4. Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume  

• Hip hop

1. Optional nude tights or no tights for level C
2. Hip hop shoes
3. Costume with headpiece (if it has one)
4. Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)
5. A nude leotard underneath costume

• Full body costume with all accessories 
• Suntan/nude dance tights
• Black character shoes
• Nude leotard underneath costume
• Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)

• All competition costumes and headpieces for group dances and duets/trio
• Ballet tights or suntan/nude tights depending on dance
• Pink canvas ballet shoes, pointe shoes, jazz shoes, or lyrical dance paws depending on the dance
• Nude leotard under all costumes
• Hair in a low ballet bun with part down the middle and stage makeup (scroll down for more details)