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HD Newsletter, Winter Edition 2016

Hosanna Dance Newsletter

Winter Edition 2016 ∙ 104 E Pleasant ∙ Pierre ∙ Artistic Director, Sunny Hannum ∙ Vol 1

Dancers & Parents -- Performance Week Schedule

January 11 & 12 - Classes as usual for Pre-Ballet, Ballet I, II, III, and V.

Dress Rehearsal at Riggs Theater is January 14 from 5-8 pm. BE THERE AT 5 PM to find dressing rooms and get situated.

Warm-up promptly at 5:30 pm for all dancers except Pre-Ballet.

Warm -up to be followed up with notes for everyone - dancers, adults, actors, helpers included. Then costumes on for all levels with hair properly & neatly fastened.

Remember, treat dress rehearsal like a performance. Action photos will be taken during dress rehearsal.

Performances are Friday, January 15, and Saturday, January 16, at 7 pm.

BE THERE AT 5:00 PM to to get situated and for stage makeup. Warm-up promptly at 6 pm required for Ballet II, II, IV, and V followed by notes for everyone. Then costumes on for all levels and show time!

Performance dvds will be recorded on Friday night. Action photos will be taken during the Saturday performance (and Thurs dress rehearsal).

PHOTOS after the show on Friday for all levels! Please DO NOT LEAVE the theater until after your group photo is taken!!! If you want to pose for individual shots you must turn your photo order slip in at that time. No photo order, no posing for individual photos. Thank you for your cooperation.

Merlyn Hilmoe's videos will be ready at Saturday Performance - January 16.

New Student Enrollment

As soon as the show is over in January, we will be taking new students for the second half year. These students will get a chance to do Frozen again with us in May. This will save parents the cost of a second costume for this year. New students will have to pay the costume fee of course.

May Performance

Yes, you heard right. We are going to repeat Frozen like we did with our Narnia performance. We will be adding some dance numbers to the spring performance. Calendar

Cecchetti Exams

We will also be working hard on our Cecchetti classes from January to March to get ready for exams at Dance Gallery of SD in Sioux Falls. There are three students getting ready for Grade I and three getting ready for Grade II. If you are interested in exams please talk to Ms Sunny.

Sarah and Josh will be preparing for Teacher's Grade II. Ms Sunny will be working on Grade VI but won't exam in that level for another year due to the level of difficulty.

--- Don't forget to take a look at the Calendar.

Cast for Beware a Frozen Heart

Elsa: Natalie Hove

Anna: Sarah Nold

Kristoff: Josh Easter

Hans: Ben Kleis

Olaf: Logan Baker

Sven: Sarah Easter

Marshmallow/giant snowman: Colin Wempe

Village People: Ballet IV

Snowstorm: Ballet V

Large Trolls/Wolves/Summer: Modern/jazz/tap

Skaters: Ballet III

Little Trolls: Ballet II

Reindeer: Ballet I

Little Snowmen: Pre-Ballet

Little Elsa: Lilly Niles

Little Anna: Selena Valeros

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. --- I John 4:18 NKJV

Beware a Frozen Heart - Performance

It is almost performance time!

Dancers & Parents Schedule:

Dress rehearsal at Riggs theater is Jan 14 from 5 - 8 p.m. BE THERE AT 5 PM to find dressing rooms and get situated.
Warm-up promptly at 5:30 pm for all dancers except PreBallet.
Warm-up to be followed up with notes for everyone - dancers, adults, actors included. Then costumes on for all levels with hair properly & neatly fastened. Remember, treat dress rehearsal like a performance.

Performances are Friday, Jan 15th & Saturday, Jan 16 at 7 p.m.
BE THERE AT 5:30. Warm-up promptly at 6 p.m. required for Ballet II/III, Ballet IV & Ballet V followed by notes. Then costumes on for all levels and show time!

PHOTOS after the show on Friday for all levels.
Please DO NOT LEAVE the theater until after your group photo is taken!!!

Calendar http://hosannadance.blogspot.com/p/calendar.html

Classes for tonight 12/15/15 - CANCELED

Tonight's classes are canceled due to the snow. Stay safe everyone.

No classes tonight for

Ballet III

Ballet V

Int/Adv Pointe

Christmas at the Capitol

We will be taking some of the dances from our upcoming performance of "Beware a Frozen Heart" to the SD State Capitol on Sunday, December 20.

PreBallet, Ballet V, and Modern/Jazz will be dancing (in costume) - Do You Want to Build a Snowman, Let It Go, In Summer, Love is an Open Door.

Destiny Youth will be caroling in between dances.

Where: SD State Capitol Building in Pierre

When: December 20 from 4:00 to 4:30 pm

HD Newsletter, Winter Edition 2015

Hosanna Dance Newsletter

Winter Edition 2015 ∙ 104 E Pleasant ∙ Pierre ∙ Artistic Director, Sunny Hannum ∙ Vol 4

Hosanna in the highest! Wherever the King is, there is the kingdom...

This had to be the busiest October Hosanna dance has ever seen with two dance workshops, Cecchetti exams for teachers and students, and pointe shoe fittings in Sioux Falls for 5 beginning pointe students.

It has been extremely difficult to focus on choreography for Frozen and we have only a little over 2 months until performances. A few dances are completed for the lower levels but our advanced dances are not.

It will be extremely important for parents to make sure their dancers make it to their classes. With the holiday season upon us, I know that it will be a challenge.

Costumes are ordered but many are not paid for. Please check the costume list at the studio to see if you need to pay for a costume. I will not be able to hand out costumes to students whose costumes are not paid for.

I am pleased to announce that our student numbers have increased significantly this year. Logan of Pumba fame has returned to do the role of Olaf.

Ms. Sunny passed a very difficult Cecchetti grade V teacher's exam October 16. Josh and Sarah Easter passed their Cecchetti grade 1 teacher's exams and Sarah Nold passed her grade 1 student exam.

Students attending all or part of the Cecchetti Fall Intensive October 17 & 18 at Dance Gallery in Sioux Falls were Kat Bruns, Sarah Nold, McKayla Gunderson, Deni Zeeb, and Ashlynn Geuther.

Students who got fitted for their first pair of pointe shoes this fall at Dance Line in Sioux Falls were Savannah Shrake, McKayla Gunderson, Deni Zeeb, Ashlynn Geuther, and Jessica Hays. Thanks Ms. Sarah for getting these girls ready for pointe.

Hosanna Dancers who attended the Dance Network SD workshop October 2-4 in Pierre were Josh and Sarah Easter, Becca Brusven and McKayla Gunderson.

Run-through rehearsals for Beware a Frozen Heart

Saturday in December and January from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

for Everyone!

Cast for Beware a Frozen Heart

Elsa: Natalie

Anna: Sarah N

Kristoff: Josh

Hans: Ben

Olaf: Logan

Sven: Eleanor

Marshmallow/giant snowman: TBA