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As we move closer to the Friendly City Dance Festival, here is a list of everything you will need on the day. This is aimed at the Novice Dancers.

Ballet:

In addition to the costumes they will be wearing, all dancers should have long pink ballet tights (2 pairs, in case on gets a hole), and clean well fitting ballet shoes with elastic securely sewn on. Please do not wear visible underwear under your leotards.

For National work you will need character shoes for most of the dances.

Please be there at least a half hour before the time for solos and 45 minutes before the time for groups. All makeup and hair to be done at home, as there is limited space in the dressing rooms. All hair to be greased back off of the faces with gell. If wearing a bun, make sure you have a hair net to hold it in place.

Makeup should include Brown Eyeshadow, blusher, bright lipstick and mascara (optional) Eyeliner can be applied or we will do it.

Please wear a dressing gown over your costume on arrival so that you don’t mess your hair up when you remove it. No dancers will be allowed in the theatre in costume, so if not waiting backstage after dancing, bring clothes to wear into the auditorium.

Day At The Beach

Hair greased back into a pony tail or two pigtails. We do have swimming costumes for them to wear, unless they choose to wear something of their own.

Little Red Riding Hood

Hair greased back into a pony tail or two pigtails. Wear any colored leotard. We will supply the rest of the costume.

Snowman

Hair greased back into a pony tail or two pigtails. We will supply the skating outfit.

Classical

Classical outfit (leotard and skirt) with the pink tights and ballet shoes. Hair in a ballet bun with a hair net.

Hawaiian (Group and Solo)

Hair tied up in a butterfly pony (some hair up and some down). Must be off of face. Pink leotards supplied. We will have the skirts with us. Bare legs or grecian honey footless tights. Bare feet.

Chimney Sweeps

Long sleeved black leotards. Hair in a high bun. We will supply caps and pants.

Czech Polka

Bring Character skirts and shoes with you. Hair in two plaits.

Modern

All modern dancers should have unitards (Same outfit as worn for exams). Can be any color with no visible underwear. Bare feet, footsies or ballet shoes acceptable. Hair off of face and can be in a French plait, pony tail or bun, depending on the style of the dance as discussed.

Hip Hop

Street style clothing and sneakers. Make sure you show your teacher your outfit and practice dancing with it in class before the time. Hair in any style as long as it is off of the face.

Dear Parents and Pupils,

Welcome to another busy term. The 3rd term is almost upon us already and it starts with a bang. We will begin with normal classes again on the 22nd of July.

Let’s get the Festival’s out of the way first.

Please make notes of all class cancellations due to festival further down in this email.

There will be extra Holiday Classes During this Last Week For some of the Festival Solos and Groups as Follows:

Lorraine:

Wednesday the 16th of July

17H30 – 18H30 – Ceili

18H30 – 19H30 – The Enchanted Ballet Box

Thursday the 17th of July

12H30 – 13H10 – 8 – 10 years Acro Solos

13H10 – 13H30 – Senior Acro Solos & Duet

13H30 – 14H30 – Pre Elementary Modern Solos

14H30 – 15H30 – Hip Hop Group – Diva’s

15H30 – 16H00 – Hip Hop Solos – Queen, Mexican and Nicki Manaj

16H00 – 16H30 – Hawaiian Surprise Group

16H30 – 17H15 – Grade 5 – Ballet Solos

18H15 – 19h15 – Adult Ballet class (Cathy) 

Saturday the 19th of July

08H00 – 09H00 – Michelle Hoogendoorn, Alexia Grubic, Anri de Beer

09H00 – 09H30 – Karli de Beer and Lolla Ncezula

09H30 – 10H00 – Day at the Beach

10H00 – 10H30 – Little Red Riding Hood

10H30 – 11H15 – Hawaiian Group

11H15 – 11H45 – Czech Polka & Manatswa

11H45 – 12H00 – Snowman

09H00 – 10H00 – Adult Ballet – Studio 2 (Cathy) 

Monday the 21st of July

09H30 – 10H00 – Lara Jacobs and Denike Theron

10H00 – 10H45 – Grade 3 – Winnie Vorster and 9 – 10 years Classical

10H45 – 11H15 – Ama Modern Solos 9 – 10 years

11H15 – 12H00 – Hip Hop Solos (Thursday and Friday Class), Monster, Cruising and What Dreams are made of

Please make sure you all know when you are dancing at festival. You need to be ready to dance at least a half an hour before your performance time. Make up and hair needs to be done at home if possible, as there is limited space in the dressing rooms.

Please note that you will not be allowed to take photos or videos in the auditorium.

Please note that no parents will be allowed to accompany the dancers backstage. There will be volunteers at the doors to deliver the dancers to their teacher. After the children have danced parents can collect them at the stage door. 

On Sunday the 3rd of August we have a practice at the Savoy for all the 10 and under novices and the groups dancing at the Savoy.

07H30 – 08H00 Day at The Beach

08H00 – 08H20        Little Red Riding Hoods

08H20 – 08H40        Snowman

08H40 – 09H00        Czech Polka & Hawaain Solo

09H00 – 09H20        Hawaain Surprise Group

09H20 -09H40         Acro Under 10 Solos

09H40 -09H55         Monster

09H55 – 10H10        What Dreams Are Made Of

10H10 – 10H30        Hip Hop 10 & Under Solos

10H30 – 10H40        Good vs Evil

10H40 – 11H00        Diva’s Group

On Wednesday the 13th of August there is another practice at the Savoy for all the groups dancing at the Nelson Mandela Bay Theatre Complex.

14H30 – 14H50        Reverie

14H50 – 15H10        Out of the Ordinary

15H10 – 15H30        Enchanted Ballet Box

Class Cancellations

Due to Festival, there will be no classes on the following days:

Pre School Classes will run as normal.

Please feel free to make up classes on other days of week or Saturdays, even if it is before/after festival. For most classes there are 2 to 3 classes a week. If unsure check which classes will be suitable with your teacher.

Lorraine: Michel

Thursday 7th August

Friday 8th August

Saturday 9th of August (Also Public Holiday)

Monday the 11th of August

Tuesday the 12th of August

Monday the 18th of August

Tuesday the 19th of August

Wednesday the 20th of August

Thursday the 21st of August

Monday the 25th of August

Tuesday the 26th of August

Wednesday the 27th of August –

14H15 -15H15 – Open Class Grade 2/3 Ballet and 2nd Grade Modern

No Classes after 15H15

Thursday the 28th of August

Friday the 29th of August

Saturday the 30th of August

Lorraine: Cathy

Friday 8th August – Out of the Ordinary and Reverie groups to rehearse at 16H30. 

No Grade 8. 

Jeffreys Bay: Carrie

Monday the 11th of August

Monday the 18th of August

Wishing you all a wonderful and joyous festival.

Yours in Dance,

Carrie, Cathy and Michel

Dear Parents and Pupils,

Trusting you all had a lovely break. 

The Joburg Ballet are currently in Port Elizabeth at the Opera House.  Please support their show, because If the

public don’t support them,  they may not return, and we need these types of productions to grace our City.

Tickets are available on Web Tickets. The production is called Dreamscapes.

After all the public holidays, classes are finally back on track again. For the rest of the term we will be working hard towards

getting the Festival dances ready.

Festival is totally optional, and even if not entering, learning the dances is highly beneficial, as it teaches new steps,

technique and performance.

For those of you wanting to enter festival, entry fees need to be in no later than the 26th of May, so this gives us time

to process the entries before they need to be in.

When making payments into the Dance Dynamics Account, please specify dancers name, and FCDF or PEDF so that

we know not to allocate to fees.

If doing both festivals, please make separate payments for each to avoid confusion.

Friendly City Dance Festival (FCDF)

FCDF will run from the 8th to the 16th of August at the Savoy Theatre.

This is the festival that most of the studio is entering, including all novice juniors.

Registration Fee:   R175 per dancer

Solo performance: R75 per solo

Groups/Duets: R50 per group entered

Costume Hire: R30 per costume (To be included with your entry fee)

Nelson Mandela Bay Dance Festival (NMBDF)

The NMBDF will run from the 21st to 30th of August at the Savoy Theatre.

Registration Fee:  R200 per dancer

Solo performance: R70 per solo

Groups/Duets: R50 per group entered

Costume Hire: R30 per costume (To be included with your entry fee)

Please note that we reserve the right to scratch participants if they do not know their dances well enough.

Trusting we all have a productive term ahead of us.

Yours in Dance,

Carrie, Cathy and Michel

First Term 2025

Dear Parents and Pupils,

It’s almost the end of the first term already!

We will close the studio for the School Holidays after classes on Friday the 28th of March 2025 and reopen on the 8th of April 2025.

Michel will be away at the AIDT Summit so her classes will only resume on Monday the 15th of April.  Her classes will run as normal on Saturday the 29th of March to make up for this. 

We would like to extend a special welcome to all our new pupils and we hope you will all have a long and happy relationship with the Dance Dynamics family.

Class Timetables

You can view the timetables, as well as the terms and conditions, Uniforms, etc on our website at https://dancedynamicspe.com. There is also a link there to our Facebook Group. We will also put copies of newsletters sent out on the website in case you miss something. Please refresh the browser when opening the website on your devices, as sometimes it just downloads from memory, instead of the latest updates.

Our Year Ahead……

2025 is once again going to be jam-packed and there are some optional extras that you may need to schedule some time for as well as put some money aside for.

1.  Talent Africa

This competition runs Regional and National competitions each year. Keep an eye on the website if you would like to do a solo at the competition. You will need to register yourself at https://talentafrica.co.za. Keep in mind that you will need to enter again for the nationals if you qualify, and the prices for Nationals are much higher than for Regionals. You are welcome to use festival solo’s for this competition as long as it is not a festival set solo. Please check with your teachers first.

Closing date for the Eastern Cape is the 11th of May 2025.

2.  Friendly City Dance Festival And Port Elizabeth Dance Festival    

These competitions will be running during August at the Savoy Theatre. Friendly City Dance Festival is first, followed by Port Elizabeth Dance Festival.

The Festivals are an optional extra activity. They are open to dancers who are five years and older. 

Fees start from R300 upwards, depending on how many dances you choose to participate in. 

We enter most of our Novices (Dancers who have never received a gold/dancers who have never danced a solo in a festival) at the Friendly City Dance Festival. Please let us know by the end of March if you would like to do both Festivals, as we need to register you at the Port Elizabeth Dance Festival, as they don’t take new dancers onto the system after this.

Please be aware that it is a requirement at both festivals to agree to pictures being used on social media for marketing purposes. 

3.  RAD Exams

These are happening in October and the prices range from R450 upwards. 

Entries close roughly 8 weeks prior to the exams. If doing RAD exams, a full exam uniform must be purchased six months in advance. Children need to be coming twice a week from term 2 or they won’t be ready in time for exams. Ballet seniors generally require 3 classes to reach peak performance.  There are other options for pupils that attend once per week, so you can ask your teacher about those. 

4.  AIDT Exams

The AIDT Modern and Hip Hop Exams are taking place at the beginning of November.

Exam fees range from R300 upwards. Dancers need to be in the studio at least twice a week for modern (can include ballet classes) and know their work well by the end of the third term to do a modern exam. Hip Hop dancers also need to know their work well and understand the different styles.

5.  Concert

Our concert will take place on the 29th of November this year. Stage rehearsals will be on the 28th of November. The venue will be the Impetus Church Theatre in Circular Drive. Hide original message

Please make a note in your diaries as our dancers love participating in this. 

6. Street Dance Association League

This competition is open to all hip-hoppers who have danced for more than a year.

The provincial season starts in May and there is a once of R400 entry fee for all the competitions leading up to the nationals.

If qualifying for the nationals and taking part in the nationals the fee is R450 per athlete.

Dancing Fees:

Please note that fees need to be paid timeously, i.e in the month that they are due. Remember to use a reference number (S…..) and indicate the dancer’s name and surname after the reference number. Please make sure all cash payments are given to us in marked envelopes, as it is difficult for teachers to handle money and remember who it came from when they are busy with classes.

Dress Code:

Please wear appropriate dancewear to classes. there are increasing numbers of dancers arriving in baggy Tee’s and we can’t correct lines if we can’t see them. Hip hop dancers are allowed baggy clothes, but please wear a good sneaker to support your feet.

Parking

PE – Please do not park on the neighbor’s grass at the Weybridge Park studio. There is extra parking space in the park across the road. Please do not park in the driveway. 

Communication 

A reminder that teachers can’t always answer their phones during lessons, so they will reply to your messages when they are free.

Please remember to message your teacher well in advance if you are missing a class. 

Recording Classes

With regards to the POPIA ACT, if you feel the need to video your child’s class, please make sure that the other parents, teacher and dancers in the class are all ok with you doing this. Many of our pupils have declined permission to use their photo’s and video’s on social media, so we need to take this into consideration.  

Yours in Dance,

Carrie, Cathy, and Michel