Hello Team TDC!

Attached is the final schedule & overall outline for Starpower Competition 4/21-4/23 at the Stafford Township Arts Center (STAC) 1000 McKinley Ave, Manahawkin, NJ 08050.

• All routines should be there 3 hours prior to performance time or when doors open (if an early morning routine) ready to dance.
• All team students must be present at the Sunday 5:30pm awards. 
• Sunday 10:30pm awards anyone 12 & older should be present if soloist or duet for Power Pak selections, Photogenic awards, Overalls & Title announcements

See below for dance bug information & photogenic information.

Looking forward to another awesome competition experience!

This email contains your schedule information only.  You will receive a separate email within 5 days of your scheduled event with detailed information regarding Star Dance Alliance policies and protocols. This email will also include detailed information pertaining to spectators and venue restrictions that are specific to your event. The Overview Schedule is attached to this email.  This schedule will be available for your families on the Schedule Page of our website at approximately 2PM Eastern Time on Tuesday. This schedule lists the time that the doors will open each day along with the start time and finish time for each session. **Performance Order** –  The scheduling system has resolved costume change conflicts as best as possible. Please be courteous and keep in mind that the competition runs in numerical order. Every performer has a minimum of 12 minutes scheduled in between their routines. Routines are expected to perform on time and anyone holding up the competition for any reason will be subject to point deductions or disqualification. The first 10 routines of the day should arrive at the venue dressed in their costume and ready to perform. All routines performing in the afternoon and evening sessions should be dressed and ready at least 3 hours prior to their scheduled performance time.​ Please note: Listed performance and awards times are estimated and the competition may run up to one hour ahead of schedule. **DanceBUG App**  Starpower is featured on the DanceBUG App!  You and your families can download the DanceBUG App to watch the Live Stream, view the full schedule, photos, videos, and the live schedule to see what entry is currently on stage and what’s on next. Don’t forget to have your dancers register for the DanceBug Media Pass! If you wish to enter the Photogenic contest, you may do so at the Starpower Registration Desk when you arrive at the venue. Please make your parents and students aware of this. Photogenic pictures must be picked up from the Registration Desk immediately following the photogenic awards ceremony. Also, a friendly reminder that for the safety of your students, photography and video recording of any kind is not permitted. Please pass this information along to your parents, families, and students. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Thank you for your support of Starpower and the Star Dance Alliance… Have a great time at the show! Kind regards, Starpower National Talent Competition

Team Dress Rehearsal & Showcase March 11 & 12!

Attached is the competition showcase and dress rehearsal schedule for March 11 and 12, 2023. Please note the assigned dressing rooms by age level which may be different from Saturday to Sunday in some age levels due to regular Saturday morning classes. Dressing rooms for pictures are the same as those assigned for Sunday showcase. Students are welcome to leave their costumes overnight from Saturday to Sunday.  Dress rehearsals and pictures are closed to parents viewing but you may help students get changed if necessary in their assigned dressing rooms- one caregiver per student only permitted- we will also have TDC teaching staff available in all dressing rooms to assist students as well. Showcase is the time for you all to see their routines. Videotaping is permitted but please DO NOT POST any videos from showcase on social media or block others view when you are filming. 

The COMBINED FEE for dress rehearsal and showcase admission for 2 parents or family members per student to attend the group routine showcase is $40 per student- this fee will be added to your accounts by Monday evening. If you are in the solo and duet/trio showcase as well it’s an additional $15 per participating student. Families who have more than one competing student may bring 2 people per student for showcase as you are paying per student pricing.

Mandatory competition parent meeting- Monday, March 6 from 830-915pm. We will answer parent questions re competition, rehearsal as well as demonstrating hair and makeup the last 15 minutes.

 Friday March 10 will be solo showcase dress rehearsal from 430-830pm in Studio 1– student will perform in the order of the showcase.  I will be there to offer feedback and will create a time schedule for students to arrive 30 minutes prior to their dance time in case they do not want to stay the whole time- routines will be about 6 minutes apart to allow dance to be done twice and offer corrections.

 I’m finishing up the hair and make up email by tomorrow night which will have class specifics, pictures and links. I have purchased earrings for the team and embroidery thread (white for team production and brown for Teen MT) with plastic needles enough for each competition – $20 per female dancer/ $5 per male dancer will be added to your accounts by Monday night to cover these costs. The gold Hoop Earrings with rhinestones are only 17mm (0.75in diameter) – image will be included in make up email- they are much smaller than last years earrings. I have also purchased the clip earring converters and clip ear cushions if needed for an additional $7 each– they will be available at the front desk starting on Wednesday this week. The earrings and wig sewing supplies will all be given out at team production this coming Wednesday. Acro students and musical theater students playing male roles will NOT wear earrings for those dances. Preteen/Teen ballet Co will be wearing 15mm rhinestone and clear crystal stud earrings- same as we have use in the past.

As you know the wine and wiggles fundraiser on Friday March 3 from 8-10pm is $20 per person and will be used to fund the wigs and sunglasses that came with team production. Please share this event and invite friends to join as the cost of these items was $35 per student additionally and not included in the raw costume price.

For those who want to get ahead with make up colors- all students will need MAC brand Russian red (matte lipstick) and cream in your coffee (cremesheen lipstick) found at any MAC, macys or Ulta store and on line from these stores as well. For cheeks, neutral colors – rose, coral, or bronze and for eyes, smokey neutral eyes- tans, browns, and creames- any brand. False eye lashes.

Hair will be double dutch (outside french braids) to a flat braided bun for dress rehearsal- there will be no time to change styles. I will decide with each competition schedule if their is time to change bottom part of the dutch braids from a bun to long braids or ponytails.

Looking forward to revealing all of our hard work at showcase!

Sheri Daknis, TDC Studio Director

Team Picture Day Order Link & Schedule

Hello everyone!

Competition Team photos will be taken on Sunday March 12th. The schedule is attached as a pdf file for printing and here is the link to purchase the photo packages (and also includes the schedule): https://form.jotform.com/dsmphotos/the-dance-centre-comp-team-2023

The link to purchase photo packages closes at 3:00pm on Saturday March 11th.

Remember: One order form per individual package, however you can purchase up to 7 class pictures on a single form.

Important Competition Updates

1-Royal dance competition reached out to me yesterday with this email changing their venue for our March 24-26, 2023 from pine hill to Philadelphia. 

Hello:

We’re excited to host you this year in Southern New Jersey the weekend of March 24-26. Unfortunately, Overbrook High School (our venue for the event) told us that their Spring Musical was pushed back and their venue was no longer available for the weekend of our event.

None of the schools in the immediate area were available either, so we have moved this event to the Pennsylvania Convention Center-Philadelphia, 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia PA 19107.

The good news is that the space is huge and provides lots of room for competition, spectators, dressing, prop storage, etc. Plus, there are multiple eating and coffee options on site and on the same block. If you are bringing a prop truck, please let me know and I’ll coordinate dropoff times and truck/trailer parking.

We’ve reserved a block of hotel rooms at the Aloft Philadelphia Downtown, 101 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19107, 215-607-2020. This hotel is attached to the Convention Center at the end of the venue where we will be located. As soon as we are sent a link, this will be posted on the website. But parents can call to reserve under “The Royal Dance Competition” block.

There are numerous other hotels nearby — the Aloft was just the most convenient.

We apologize for this change, but unfortunately it is out of our control. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Thank you,

—

Lydia Wright

The Royal Dance Competition

2- National dates to keep available are June 26 through July 2, 2023. As soon as you know your graduation dates for June, please let me know asap so i can start to work on our practice schedule- 2 mandatory evening practices.

3- True Talent optional solo/duet trio competition is a definite for May 5-7 sicklerville/voorhees. We will unfortunately NOT be doing the May 12-13 date. If you need to change your response to be added or to be removed from this optional competition base on this info please email me.

Choreo Weekend #3 Fees- Sent 1/11/23