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TIPS FOR GETTING ORGANIZED WITH SCHEDULES & DEADLINES

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As we are jumping into a brand-New Dance Year, start the season off right with faculty by having information, schedules and deadlines ready for them! Get everyone on the same page to work together towards a successful and fulfilling year!

Here are some quick questions and suggestions to get you going!

  1. When is your annual faculty meeting?

 

  1. What is each teacher’s 2018-2019 schedule?  Class roster? (if known)

 

  1. What is the 2018-2019 studio calendar? When is the studio closed? Holiday schedule? Audition Dates? Rehearsal Dates? Performance Dates?

 

  1. When and where are this year’s competitions?

 

  1. When are teacher contracts due back to directors signed and dated?

 

  1. What is the theme of this year’s recital?

 

  1. Which dancers would teachers like to use in their pieces? When is this list due by?

 

  1. When are concepts and edited music due by?

 

  1. If teachers pick their own costumes, when are costume submissions due by?

 

  1. What is teacher rehearsal availability/preferences? When should this be due by?

 

  1. When should all choreography be completed by?

 

Good luck in the new season!

See you in the Studio!

Jessie

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Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford is a native New Yorker and graduate of NYU Steinhardt's Dance Education Master’s Program; with a PK-12 New York State Teaching Certification. Her double-concentration Master’s Degree includes PK-12 pedagogy and dance education within the higher-education discipline. She also holds a BFA in dance performance from the UMASS Amherst 5 College Dance Program where she was a Chancellor's Talent Award recipient. Jess now works extensively with children, adolescents and professionals as choreographer and teacher and conducts national and international master-classes specializing in the genres of modern, contemporary, musical theatre and choreography-composition. Jess’ national and international performance career includes works such as: The National Tour of Guys & Dolls, The European Tour of Grease, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, Salute to Dudley Moore at Carnegie Hall, guest-dancer with the World Famous Pontani Sisters and IMPULSE Modern Dance Company. Jess has been a faculty member for the Perichild Program & Peridance Youth Ensemble & taught contemporary and jazz at the historic New Dance Group and 92nd Street Y in NYC. She was Company Director at the historic Steffi Nossen School of Dance/Dance in Education Fund and in 2008 traveled to Uganda where she taught creative-movement to misplaced children. The experience culminated with Jess being selected as a featured instructor at the Queen's Kampala Ballet & Modern Dance School. She has conducted workshops for the cast of LA REVE at the Wynn, Las Vegas and recently taught at the 2011 IDS International Dance Teacher Conference at The Royal Ballet in London, UK. She is also on faculty for the annual Dance Teacher Web Conferences in Las Vegas, NV. Currently, Jess is a faculty member at the D'Valda & Sirico Dance & Music Centre and master teacher & adjudicator for various national and international dance competitions. Recently, she has finished her NYU Master’s thesis research on the choreographic process of technically advanced adolescent dancers and is the creator of “PROJECT C;” a choreography-composition curriculum for the private studio sector. Jess is also faculty member, contributing writer and presenter in the choreography and “how to” teaching segments on the celebrated danceteacherweb.com. For more info, visit her website at www.jrizzo.net.

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