Dress rehearsal is as important for dancers as the dance recital. It gives students the opportunity to practice in costume with stage lighting and understand the flow of the show order. At rehearsal, dancers have the opportunity to get accustomed to the stage and backstage areas, as well as being a part of the audience before the recital.
On Thursday, May 18, students will arrive at the Union County Fine Arts Center dressed in costume with recital hair, and they will sit in the audience with their class. Makeup is not required for dress rehearsal. If your student is in the First Act (see graphic below) they will need to arrive no later than 4:30 PM, and if your student is in the Second Act they will need to arrive no later than 6:30 PM. For dress rehearsal, we allow students to sit in the auditorium to give the dancers onstage the experience of dancing for an audience and to give dancers the opportunity to see the show from the audience’s perspective.
Since we often set and adjust lighting for routines during dress rehearsal, some classes will run their dance more than once. If running routines multiple times appears to put behind our time schedule, we will run our Tap/Ballet combo class routines out of order. This will avoid having combo students waiting to dance until 8:00 at night. They still get the opportunity to practice their dance, become adjusted to dancing on stage and be home before bedtime. If you have any questions regarding dress rehearsal, feel free to contact us and don’t forget that we will still have normal classes Monday 5/15 and Tuesday 5/16 in addition to dress rehearsal Thursday!
