Recital and Rehearsal Information

Recital and Rehearsal Schedules

Spring Recital 2024 “Magic Moment”

All students please arrive one (1) hour prior to recital performance time in full costume hair and makeup complete with proper tights and shoes.

• Buy Tickets – June 22, 2024 at 4:00 pm (Student Arrival Time 3:00 pm)
• Buy Tickets –  June 23, 2024 at 12:00 pm (Student Arrival Time 11:00 am)
• Buy Tickets – June 23, 2024 at 4:00 am (Student Arrival Time 3:00 pm)

Performance Venue

• The Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Stony Brook University

Dress Rehearsals at Dance Pointe Selden and Miller Place Studios During Students’ Class Times
Dates: Saturday, June 15 through Thursday, June 20, 2024
Times: During All Students’ Class Times 

Borrow Costumes (Winter Recital Only) 
As a Dance Pointe member perk, our studios provide costumes for all students to borrow for our winter performance. Please take special care of them, and please do not wash costumes.  All costumes are cleaned once they are returned to us.  The week immediately after the performance is costume return week.  Please return your costume(s) in “like new” condition to Dance Pointe on your next scheduled class time to be signed off on.  Thank you! 

Ticket Holders for Parents, Family Members & Students Please make sure that you printe your tickets from the ticketing website. As long as you have your tickets parents may sit in the auditorium prior to the show time when doors open for admission.  However, please keep your tickets readily available.  You cannot enter the auditorium unless you have a ticket.  Ushers will be at the doors at all times to check tickets upon audience members leaving and re-entry during the performance and intermission.  

Student Drop-Off and Pick-Up
Please ensure attendance at the show in full costume and makeup one hour before show time​. All students are escorted to the stage for their dance, and escorted back to their designated class assistant and table back stage in the dressing room.  On the day of the show, please walk students to the student check-in table. One of our staff members will greet you to sign your child in. At the end of the performances, students will be escorted to the auditorium to return to their families.  Just to reiterate, students should come in their costume, hair and makeup done. Please no jewelry. If desired parents and students may return to the stage to take pictures with the set and other cast members and dancers at the end of the performance.

Backstage Guidelines (Safety First!)
Please enter the theatre through the front entrance.  Back entrances are locked to ensure child safety.  Unless designated as a volunteer or assistant, parents and family members are not permitted backstage, each class has a designated class assistant that will be helping backstage to ensure students’ safety, needs and stage cues.  Volunteers backstage wear Dance Pointe Staff Apparel.

Backstage
As indicated above, each class has a designated assistant.  The dressing room is adjacent to the stage.  Please pack students with something that they can do while in the classrooms in-between performance numbers.  NO MARKERS, PLAYDOH, PAINT OR ANYTHING THAT CAN RUIN COSTUMES PLEASE.  You can also pack a snack limited to something that will not stain a costume.  Pretzels are fine nothing that has oils, chocolate, or any other gooey-oooooozy stuff that can ruin costumes.  WATER ONLY PLEASE, ABSOLUTELY NO JUICES OR SODAS, ETC….

Audience Etiquette

• Please no flash photography it is a distraction to audience members and dancers.  Please no recordings of the performances, once again it poses as a distraction to our audience members and dancers.  Our performances are professionally recorded.  Live stream of the performances are provided to all families free.
  
• Kindly, silence or place cellular phones on airplane mode, and please refrain from texting during the performance.  No food or drinks are permitted in the auditorium.  Kindly arrive on time, please try to only exit and enter the auditorium prior to the start of the performance, and during intermission.
  
• Please do clap, give praise and adulations to your student performers during the production commending their commitment and dedication throughout the season for a performance well done​!

As recital dates approach, please do not hesitate to bring forth any questions or concerns you may have…Thank you MOMS, DADS, AUNTS, UNCLES AND GRANDPARENTS for your continued support, anticipated courtesies and cooperation to make these performances a great success for your beautiful children and all our proud families!​

Winnter Showcase 2025

All students please arrive one (1) hour prior to recital performance time in full costume hair and makeup complete with proper tights and shoes.

• Buy Tickets – January 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm (Student Arrival Time 3:00 pm)
• Buy Tickets –  January 19, 2025 at 12:00 pm (Student Arrival Time 11:00 am)

Performance Venue

• The Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Stony Brook

Dress Rehearsals at Dance Pointe Selden and Miller Place Studios During Students’ Class Times
Dates: Saturday, January 11 through Thursday, January 16, 2025
Times: During All Students’ Class Times 

All students please arrive to Dress Rehearsals and Recital Performances in full costume, hair and makeup complete with proper tights and shoes.  Please no jewelry.

• Click Here for Recital Tight & Shoe Requirements
• Click Here for Hair & Makeup Guides
• Click Here for the Detailed Family Recital Listing
  (What Show is My Performer In?) – Listing Coming Soon!