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Update from September 23rd

  • Writer: Dyan Branstetter
    Dyan Branstetter
  • Sep 28, 2023
  • 3 min read

Happy Saturday Everyone!


This email is going to have requests from a few of our chair people in it. Please read all the way to the end.


1. There is a new schedule for this week. Please check the schedule carefully and make sure your dancer is in the studio 15 minutes before his/her first role is supposed to be warming up. Once a dancer has arrived at the studio for rehearsal, they should not leave until all of his/her roles are finished. If a dancer has a long break and is commited to returning to the studio on time for his/her other roles, they are permitted to leave with a parent. The parent must come up to the studio and sign them in and then sign them back out when they return. Thank you for your understanding with this new policy.


2. Tight orders are due tomorrow! You should have received an email from us if you did not complete this order yet. All dancers MUST purchase a pair of tights for uniformity on stage.


3. Apparel orders are due next week. Viktor would love for every dancer to purchase a t-shirt or sweatshirt to wear around town, school, or pretty much anywhere. The t-shirt was designed by our own Lilly Spolum and is a very detailed design this year. The t-shirts and sweatshirts help advertise the show and create a memory for your dancer all at the same time. While I'm on the topic of t-shirts, please make sure you checked the spelling of your dancers name on the spreadsheet from last week's email.


4. Sell, sell, sell tickets. There was an advertisement in the Lancaster Newspaper this week. There will be many other advertisements in the newspaper, but the data from past years shows that most people hear about the show from dancers and their families. We are currently under where we were this time last year on ticket sales. Share the link with family, friends, teachers, doctors, random people from high school that you haven't talked to in 20 years. Social media is a great place to share the link. PLEASE tell people to PUT YOUR DANCERS NAME ON THE FORM. There are people submitting the form and writing "my grand daughters are in the show", "niece is in the show"... you get the idea. We do not have time to contact every person who submits a ticket order. If there is not an actual dancer name on the form, it will get marked as a public sale and no one will receive credit for it. Remember.... there is a prize for the top 3 ticket sellers!!!


5. Facebook - There are only 32 members in the "VYIBA Nutcracker 2023 Participants". Please search the group on Facebook (if you have Facebook) and join this group to get many more reminders than we can put in an email. Also, if you would like to be tagged in photos that are posted daily, please add your Facebook Name exactly as it appears on Facebook and we will try to tag you when your dancer is in photos. You can do that in the name spreadsheet next to your school/school district.


6. First Friday and Market Saturdays - These are advertising events. An email will be coming tomorrow about these events. We would like everyone who is not taking classes on Fridays and Saturdays to try their best to participate in at least one of these events. Please read the email carefully when it comes and use the Sign-up Genius to sign up for one as soon as possible. Thank you in advance for your attention to this!


7. Volunteers in the studio - We would like to encourage everyone to try to volunteer during rehearsals at least once. The only 2 jobs we have during rehearsal is the little studio assistant and the attendance table. We are happy to help you, but we desperately need the help, especially after 2 pm. Most of our current volunteers have been doing it for multiple weeks now and most are parents of older dancers. A lot of our older dancers are done rehearsal by 4 pm so we are in need of volunteers for the later timeslots. Please go to the website: https://vynutcracker.wixsite.com/vyibanutcracker/sign-ups and look for a timeslot that would work for you. We greatly appreciate it! It takes a village!!


Thank you for reading all the way to the end of this email!! I know it was a long one. Last but not least, please remember that all trash brought into the studio should leave with your dancer. Also keep in mind that GUM is NOT permitted in the studio. Viktor had to ask multiple dancers to spit out gum last week. Gum in a dance studio is just looking to be a disaster. Please do not allow your dancer to bring gum.


See everyone later!!!

Thank you,

Viktor, Marie and Kelly

 
 
 

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