Welcome to the Quality Dance Program of Hosanna Dance, formerly MainStreet Dance, serving Pierre/Ft Pierre and the surrounding area since 2000 ... * Your central South Dakota nationally qualified ballet teachers *
Quick glance at schedule

Nutcracker time!

 

Hosanna Dance's  Nutcracker Adaptation  The Greatest Gift of All   is on   Friday, December 8, 2023 at 7:00 pm and  Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm  at  The Riggs Theatre in Pierre  Admission is free will donation at the door



DANCERS & PARENTS

🎄Tuesdays in Nov/Dec  - for everyone
Nutcracker Run-throughs for all student classes and extras
No costumes
In-studio at Hosanna Dance
5:30-8:00 pm


🎄Thursday, December 7, 2023 - for everyone
Nutcracker Dress Rehearsal for all student classes
Treat as a performance - bring costumes, etc (see below)
at Riggs Theatre
5:30-8:00 pm

🎄Christmas Show - Friday & Saturday, December 8 & 9, 2023

Nutcracker
-Friday 7:00 pm performance
-Saturday 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm performances
at Riggs Theatre
*Run-throughs will be for everyone in all recital classes, every Tue at 5:30pm, the month leading up to the show. Dress Rehearsal is the day before the show. Please plan accordingly. Thank you. ðŸ™‚

~  THEATRE PERFORMANCES ~

Dress Rehearsals at Riggs Theatre are 5:30-8:00 pm
Be at the theater by 5pm. Find your dressing room and get organized.
Be on stage in your class clothes - leotard, tights, shoes, and secure ballet bun - by 5:30 for notes and warm-up. Costumes will be put on after warm-up.

And REMEMBER treat dress rehearsal as a performance. Wear the correct costumes, tights, undergarments, shoes, hair, etc. This is where you make sure everything works, looks good, and you can sort out any mid-performance costume issues. Keep costumes off the floor!! Read PERFORMANCE GUIDELINES.

Performances at  Riggs Theatre at 2 p.m. afternoon matinee & 7 p.m. evening performance
Dancers: Be at the theater at noon for the first performance. Be back at the theater at 5:00 for the second performance.

Be at the theater at 12:00 pm to get organized in dressing rooms, do hair, makeup, etc.
Be on stage by 12:30 pm for notes and warm-up and any extra practice that you may need
Costumes on at 1:30 pm. Curtain at 2:00 pm.

Break 3:30-5:00 pm

Be back at the theater at 5:00. Make sure everything you need is reorganized and in its place. Keep the dressing rooms picked up. If you haven't done so this would be a good time to put recital gifts for classmates out on the tables.
   Makeup/hair redo or touch-ups at 5:00 pm.
   Be on stage in class clothes at 5:30 pm for notes and warm-up.
   Costumes on at 6:30 pm. Curtain at 7:00 pm.

After: Check the gift tables out front, pick up all your costumes/accessories/shoes, pick up after yourself. Return borrowed items. Pack up! 

Read about Performances
PDF ðŸ©°



GROUP PHOTOS for everyone
&
if ordering them, individual shots

🎄Photos for Nutcracker this year!  (we want everyone there for group photos)

Show up before your first picture time and get costumed up so you are ready and lined up with your class at the time listed below. 
Each class will only get pictures during their time slot. —- Group photo and if purchasing that option also take an individual shot.

When you arrive, get dressed (in your first costume if you have more than one) and wait in the small studio until your class is called as a group.


Ballet 5 -- 3:00 pm - flower, snow, Spanish trio

Doll solos, Pas de deux, Clara, Clara & Papa - 3:15

Ballet 4 -- 3:30 pm
ballets first then boots

Modern (Beg and Int/Adv) -- 3:50 pm
finale first then flies
Also w/Clara
Also, with Angels/guys

Ballet 2 -- 4:10 pm
party first then Irish

PrePointe/Beginning Pointe (Chinese) -- 4:30 pm

Russian (Boys) -- 4:45 pm

Ballet 1 -- 4:50 pm

Acro (Arabian) -- 5:10 pm

PreBallet -- 5:20 pm
Dolls dress first then pajamas



Dress Rehearsal and Performances are at Riggs Theatre. All other run-throughs or activities are at the studio.



2023-2024 Dance Year

➤ Ballet 5 classes start August 1, 2023.

➤ All other classes start after Labor Day (9/4).


Next Performance


The Nutcracker


HD Newsletter - 2023 New Year Edition

 Hosanna Dance Newsletter

New Year Edition 2023 119 N Deadwood St Ft Pierre Artistic Director, Sunny Hannum

Happy 2023! 
It’s time to get back in shape and get those dances ready for Sleeping Beauty. What we thought was going to be a one week Christmas break, turned out to be a three week break for some dance classes.  ❄️ ⛄️ ❄️ 

The Cecchetti preparation classes and Thursday night classes all took a hit from the storms. If your children were in any of those classes, they can make up by taking Ballet II on Monday night.

Sunny would like to extend the Wednesday night Cecchetti Grade II exam preparation class to see if those kids can be ready for April or June exams. That should make up for their missed class time.

Mr. Josh, Ms. Sarah, Ms. Sunny and Becca, attended the fall workshops at Dance Gallery in Sioux Falls October 7-9. There were a lot of good classes with Peggy Wright, Cecchetti examiner. We attended Dance Network of South Dakota classes in Aberdeen October 21-23. One of the instructors was ballet and pointe teacher Mary Carpenter. Ms. Sarah and Becca were fan-girling. Classes were also taught in contemporary, jazz, tap, and hip hop. Ms. Sunny enjoyed Josh Nixon’s tap classes.

Many of the dances for the lower level classes have been choreographed, but with students missing classes throughout both holidays, there is still much practice needed. We have also picked up a few new students later in the year than usual who will need to learn the dances.

The Lilac/wisdom Fairy and Aurora variations and pas de deux are well along thanks to Mr. Josh and Ms. Sarah and the two advanced dancers they get to work with. We were fortunate to find three young men to do the parts of the Suitors.
 Ms. Sunny has taught the Canary/song fairy, Violente/temperament fairy, and the Candide/crystal fountain fairy variations and is working on the Miettes/breadcrumb Fairy.

Save the date:
Make sure you have these dates saved for participation in the spring performance.
Rehearsals for all classes on Tuesdays from 5:30-8:00 pm on February 28, March 7, and March 14 at the studio.
Dress Rehearsal for all classes on Friday, Mar 17, 5:30-8:00 at Riggs Theatre. Class photos will be on Friday at the theatre, starting around 3:45 (schedule to come).
Performances on Saturday, March 18, at 3:00 & 7:00 pm and Sunday, March 19, at 3:00 pm at Riggs Theatre.


Cast List
Princess Aurora - Becca Brusven
Prince Désiré - Josiah Corrales

Lilac Fairy - Joleh McCullough
Carabosse - Sarah Easter
Candide fairy - Rayna Tibbs
Breadcrumb fairy - Taylor Newell
Canary fairy - Kyli Vermundson
Temperament fairy - Rae McVey

Lilac princess - Ballet I
Angel fairies - Ballet II
Carabosse’s minions - Beg Modern

King and Queen - David Guild and Jen Kanz
Master of Cermonies - Tyler Want
Couriers - Esra Dorsey and Ryder Johnson
Queen’s Attendents - Britta Brusven and TBD
Four Suitors - Tyler, Josiah, Noah, and Mr. Josh

Court dancers - Ballet III/IV
Butterflies - PreBallet
Forest Villagers - Ballet III/IV
Trumpet vines - Ballet II

Puss n Boots and the White Cat - Walter McVey and Kourtney Hughes
Cinderella and her Prince - Kyli Vermundson and Tyler Want

Finale - Int/Adv Modern






We Encourage All Our Students to Prepare for Cecchetti Examinations

This is such an excellent way for students to become technically proficient and thoroughly learn the terminology of ballet. There is something about preparing for an exam that makes students work harder and helps them develop as dancers. And bonus, you get a certificate as a memory of all the hard work, study, and effort.

If you or your student(s) are interested in getting started with Cecchetti student examinations let us know.
⇒ Ballet III and up are eligible to start working on Grade 1. Examinations take a lot of preparation, study, and commitment. (Normally 1-2 years is spent studying per grade. More as you progress through the grades.)  Examinations - read more about what to expect here

Our studio is affiliated with the Cecchetti Council of America. We added the Cecchetti syllabus to our classes in 2013. All teachers are professionally examined by the CCA to hold certificates in the Cecchetti Method grades.


Hosanna Dance instructors attend all the Cecchetti intensives and workshops at Dance Gallery in Sioux Falls and attend the International Cecchetti Teacher's Summit at least every other year.


Sleeping Beauty Ballet in Pierre


The Sleeping Beauty ballet will be held in Pierre, SD, at the Riggs Theatre on March 18 and 19.

HD Newsletter - Fall 2022 Edition

  Hosanna Dance Newsletter

Fall Edition 2022 119 N Deadwood St Ft Pierre Artistic Director, Sunny Hannum

Welcome back Hosanna Dance students & Parents!
Classes start Tuesday, September 6. Check the schedule for day of the week and time of your classes.

It has been a while since we have had a newsletter so we have a lot of news for you.

Our March 19, 2022, performance of "The Deliverer" was over the top good. Thanks to all the students' hard work, my partners, Josh and Sarah Easter, and all the parents and others who helped. We had done this show twice in the past and it just got better and better. I hope our Sleeping Beauty ballet next spring will be even better than the 2006 and 2013 shows.

When we select a show to do, we base it on the makeup of our registrations for the year. That means each time we do a show, we may have to adjust or change it to fit the students' abilities, age, and dance level.

Summer - June

Becca Brusven attended the 11-day South Dakota Ballet's Summer Intensive in Sioux Falls during the last two weeks of June. She was invited to be a trainee for the SD Ballet and thus got to take classes with the main company. All the intensive attendees got to participate in the opening number with the SD Ballet.

Summer - July 

The studio took the month of June off and then Ms. Sunny and Becca Brusven taught an Encanto dance camp for two days in July. Josh assisted with crafts and Ms. Sarah found a fun butterfly craft for us to do. Ms. Becca taught a lovely character dance to "The Dysfunctional Tango" from the Encanto movie.

Mr. Josh and Ms. Sarah attended a week-long Lester Horton Teacher’s Pedagogy training from the Alvin Ailey School with Ana Marie Forsythe and other instructors in July.

Ms. Sunny taught four Cecchetti Grade 1 exam classes for students planning to take their exams in Sioux Falls the last week of July. Rae McVey, Walter McVey, Kourtney Hughes, and Shawnie Zeeb all took their Cecchetti Grade 1 exams and passed.

The last week of July, five students attended the Cecchetti Summer Intensive at Dance Gallery in Sioux Falls with their teachers Ms. Sunny, Mr. Josh, and Ms. Sarah.
Ms. Becca attended the Cecchetti Intensive on scholarship and was given a solo from the ballet Paquita to perform in the showcase at the end of the workshop. The showcase was outdoors at the Washington Pavillion. Argus Leader article

Summer - August 

Tuesday nights in August our older dancers took a ballet class and learned some of the variations from Sleeping Beauty including the Song/Canary Fairy, Lilac Fairy, Violente (nicknamed the Finger Fairy), Candide/Crystal Fountain Fairy, and one of Prince Désiré’s variations.

Fall workshops

Dance Network of South Dakota is in Aberdeen this year, October 21-23.
Registration is open at https://dancenetworksd.org/ For ages 8+

Northern Plains Cecchetti weekend workshop in Sioux Falls, October 8-9.
More information to come



Save the date:
Make sure you have these dates saved for participation in the spring performance.
Rehearsals for all classes on Tuesdays from 5:30-8:00 pm on February 28, March 7, and March 14 at the studio.
Dress Rehearsal for all classes on Friday, Mar 17, 5:30-8:00 at Riggs Theatre.
Performances on Saturday, March 18, at 3:00 & 7:00 pm and Sunday, March 19, at 3:00 pm at Riggs Theatre.



Fun fact and a little history:
The original cast of the Sleeping Beauty Ballet had Enrico Cecchetti as Carabosse (the evil fairy) and the Bluebird (he created those roles), while his wife was the Queen. Yes, that is our Maestro Enrico Cecchetti from whence came the Cecchetti method. Choreographer Marius Petipa was the ballet master of the Imperial Mariinsky Ballet (known as the Kirov during Soviet years as Kirov was a friend of Stalin).


Sleeping Beauty Characters
Princess Aurora/Sleeping Beauty
Prince Désiré
Catalabutte, Master of Ceremonies
King Florestan XIV
The Queen 
Princes/The Four Suitors/Hunting Party
Courtiers, Maids of Honor, Pages, Lackeys

Lilac Fairy/wisdom
Carabosse, the evil fairy
Candide/Candor/Grace or Crystal Fountain Fairy
Coulante/Wheat Flour/Beauty or Enchanted Garden Fairy
Falling Breadcrumbs/Generosity or Woodland Glades Fairy
Canary/Singing/Musicality or Songbirds Fairy
Violente/Temperament (Force/Energy/Brave/Passions) or Golden Vine Fairy (often nicknamed the finger fairy)

Bluebird & Princess Florine
Puss in Boots & White Cat
Wolf & Red Riding Hood
Cinderella & Prince
Gold, Silver, Sapphire, and Diamond Fairies





Cast List
Princess Aurora - Becca Brusven
Prince Désiré - Josiah Corrales
Lilac Fairy - Joleh McCullough
Carabosse - TBD
Candide fairy - Rayna Tibbs
Canary fairy - Kylie Vermundson
Violente fairy - Rae McVey
King Floristan - TBD
Queen - TBD
Four Suitors - Josiah, Colby, Tyler, and Josh Easter
We Encourage All Our Students to Prepare for Cecchetti Examinations

This is such an excellent way for students to become technically proficient and thoroughly learn the terminology of ballet. There is something about preparing for an exam that makes students work harder and helps them develop as dancers. And bonus, you get a certificate as a memory of all the hard work, study, and effort.

If you or your student(s) are interested in getting started with Cecchetti student examinations let us know.
⇒ Ballet III and up are eligible to start working on Grade 1. Examinations take a lot of preparation, study, and commitment. (Normally 1-2 years is spent studying per grade. More as you progress through the grades.)  Examinations - read more about what to expect here

Our studio is affiliated with the Cecchetti Council of America. We added the Cecchetti syllabus to our classes in 2013. All teachers are professionally examined by the CCA to hold certificates in the Cecchetti Method grades.


Hosanna Dance instructors attend all the Cecchetti intensives and workshops at Dance Gallery in Sioux Falls and attend the International Cecchetti Teacher's Summit at least every other year.


~~~~~
 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. -- Revelation 21:2  NKJV








Classes

 To see list of classes for summer and fall go to the class schedule page by clicking that page above. 

Student Examinations

If you or your student are interested in getting started with Cecchetti student examinations let us know.

Ballet III and up are eligible to start working on Grade 1. Examinations take a lot of preparation, study, and commitment.
(Normally 1-2 years is spent studying per grade. More as you progress through the grades.)

Our studio is affiliated with the Cecchetti Council of America. All teachers hold certificates in the Cecchetti Method.


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At Any Age
Come dance with us...
In Him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28