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Princeton Dance and Theater Calendar
Nov 5-6 Closed
NJEA Convention
Nov 24-27 Closed
Thanksgiving
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Upcoming Performances
October 17
8 pm
One Night On Broadway
MPAC
Dec 5
Nutcracker
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Giselle Is Open Again
10 Academy Street
Princeton, NJ
609 497 9070
Store Hours
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Tues - Fri
12:00 noon - 5:00 pm
Sat
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun
12:00 noon - 5:00 pm
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Halloween Fun Raiser
$1.00 per chance to guess how many candy corns in the container.
Winner to receive the candy corn, the glass pumpkin, and a ballet sweater, donated by PDT.
The winner will be posted in the lobby on
Sat., Oct. 31st
- HALLOWEEN
Proceeds to benefit
DanceVision.
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Give your Dead Shoes New Life!
This is a plea for old pointe and demi-pointe shoes. We extend their beauty and life
in new ways and sell works of art at our performances. The designs are very special and underscore how creative our students and parents are in other art forms besides dance!
Donations can be placed in
a box in the lobby labeled
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Contact:
Pamela
Mingle at 609-203-0376 or pmingle1@gmail.com
www.balletburn.com
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A school's merit is not justified by the fame of its teachers; rather it is defined by the success of its students.
If you'd like to share an upcoming event, celebration, etc. with the greater PDT community or if you'd like to make a comment,
please direct communications to Amy at: aeilert@gmail.com with the words Dance and Theater News in the subject header. |
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Greetings!
Autumn brings great excitement to some of PDT's ballet classes. For Ballet 4's and Ballet 5's, October means going to a much-anticipated fitting at a dance store for the coveted demi-pointe and pointe shoes.
We remember well the sleepless night before our first fitting. What little girl doesn't want to rise up on their toes and dance effortlessly across a stage? Of course, wearing these special shoes is not always rosy, although one's toes can certainly resemble the pink and red flower after just a few minutes in these deceptively delicate looking shoes .
Ah yes, the memory of the burning sensation of a pointe shoe blister is difficult to forget. Thankfully, after several weeks, the toes develop the calloused armor to protect against the rubbing of the cunningly artful shoes.
In several years, if trained properly, the more than one hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments in the dancer's foot and ankle will be strong enough to allow the artist in the dancer to be expressed. She becomes a ballerina, and like any great work of art, all it took to get there was a little pain and a lot of patience, hard work, and love.
Students in PDT's other classes are moving along just as splendidly. The atmosphere in every class is one of hard work and pride at achieving a difficult step or combination. No matter what type of dance is being taught, the kids and adults leaving the class all look the same - slightly flushed, glistening with sweat, and smiling ear to ear.
Warmly,
Risa Kaplowitz & Susan Jaffe
Co-Directors |
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Elica Suzuki Scholarship Fund
A Marathon of Support
PDT parent, Tracey Johnson, is running a marathon to benefit the Elica Suzuki Scholarship Fund.
If you are moved to support this effort, Tracey is asking for flat donations of any amount to inspire her run.
Donations are being collected in the PDT office. The race is on November 22 in Philadelphia.
Thank
you, Tracey, for helping us all remember a beautiful child and dancer!
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One Night on Broadway 2
Millstone Township Performing Arts Center
PDT Student Juliet Kapanjie joins the ensemble in One Night on Broadway 2 at the Millstone Township Performing Arts Center, October 17, 2009 at 8:00 pm. Broadway's Phantom and London's Christine from "Phantom of the Opera"
will be together on stage, along with local talent. Tickets can be purchased by calling 732-446-8480; email us at MPAC@millstone.k12.nj.us, Ticket prices are $40 for orchestra seats; $30 for all other tickets
with a $5 discount for students and seniors. All seats are reserved. The Millstone Township Performing Arts Center is located at 5 Dawson
Court (corner Baird & Conover Roads), in Millstone Township, NJ,
08535 just minutes from Rt 33 near Freehold.
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From One Mom to Another:
A funny thing happened while sewing ribbons on pointe shoes
Sewing Pointe Shoe Ribbons Right the First Time!
There
are several things to keep in mind when sewing pointe shoes. These are
some lessons from my first experience sewing demi-pointe shoes. (I understand that
there is now an instructional handout).
Yes, children old enough to wear them, are capable of sewing them....ONCE! But...once was not in the cards for us.
1. Ribbons to the Inside of the shoe, Elastic, to the Outside (Thus I had to take them off, and re-sew them the first time.)
2. Placement of Ribbons and Elastic are important. Pins are helpful
in keeping ribbons and elastic in their place (for sewing), but, are
difficult to work with when your child's foot is still in the shoe, so
I avoid them. (They slipped, so I had to re-sew them a second time.)
3. Now I mark these locations with a pencil
while my daughter is wearing the shoe, (important for us, because
ribbons and elastic interfere with each other if the shoe is small and
the elastic wide). Putting the ribbons too far forward
prevents them from being snug across the instep, and do nothing to
keep the shoe on the foot. Too far back, and they hit the ankle, or gape as they are pulled forward. (Thus I had to take them off and re-sew
them the third time.)
Just when I think I've got nothing more to learn and things are perfect:
4. Ribbons have a 'smooth shiny side' and a rougher side. If you can discern the difference, (which some ribbon manufacturers make nearly impossible) the shiny side, goes to the outside of the shoe.
The rough side grips the dancers leg, so the ribbons don't ceaselessly
slide off each other which prevents holding the shoe to the foot. (I
re-sewed them the fourth time.)
5. Elastic: PDT recommends a location on the heal of the shoe. For us, that
location ran directly over my child's ankle. After much observation of
variation in placement of elastic on the older girls, I decided that
any place that didn't hit her ankle bone, but towards the back of the
shoe was adequate. (Yes, I resewed them a fifth time).
Thank goodness, every time, I was careful to avoid the casing where the drawstring comes out. (Six times resewing would be a record beyond my patience.)
In subsequent years, the following tidbits of knowledge on this subject has been handed down from mom to mom in the corridors of the waiting room:
Dental Floss makes excellent thread.
A smaller needle allows you to make shorter stitches, so my sewing no longer looks like a 6 year old did it.
A thimble can be helpful, but is not completely necessary.
The deeper the ribbons get sewn in the shoes, the more secure it feels on the foot.
Cutting
the hank of ribbon in half, and then in half again, makes the outside
ribbon too short and the inside ribbon way too long. Have your daughter tie them and snip so now they can be tucked in nicely.
Singe all four ends of the ribbons with a lighter to prevent fraying.
Getting
friends to help you sew the shoes during class as you race to get them
ready before the pointe part of class is kind of fun. I now know why women liked sewing circles.
Not all pointe shoes are the same.
Some have exceptionally deep heal cups, so using that as a measure to
find the instep has lead to issue #3, yet again.
If you come
by any other issue that could possibly happen when you sew a shoe,
every mom at PDT is delighted to share with you her own perspective on
the subject. There is a lot of knowledge, experience and wisdom to be
mined from the hallways, waiting rooms, and food court. Wherever I can
find willing moms and dancers, I chase them down with my questions, and they've always been
happy to help.
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DanceVisionNutcracker D.A.N.C.E
Rehearsals have started! Save the date!
December 5th 3:00 and 7:00 at the Performing Arts Center at Montgomery High School. Please visit www.dancevisionnj.org for more information.
DanceVision's D.A.N.C.E. (Dance As a Necessary Component to Education) will be in residence at Wicoff Elementary School in the West Windsor-Plainsboro school district. D.A.N.C.E. will bring dance education to all of the school's second and third graders. The residency is made possible in part by the Middlesex Cultural Heritage Foundation and is being coordinated by Marie Alonzo Snyder Phd.
DanceVision is in need of financial assitance. Please click here to contribute to this not-for-profit organization so that it can continue to present its wonderful performances of The Nutcracker and The Secret Garden and its important outreach programs in the community.
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Hot Salsa Hot
This is the last week
to register your children for our fall session which begins October
7. After this week, no more students will be accepted until the next session in January.
Wednesdays 6:30-7:30 pm
8 Week session begins Oct 7th - Nov 25th
FAMILY SPECIAL
HSH stimulus package for siblings.
8 week session starts Oct 7th. Payment Plan Available.
$ 100 1 child ($12.50 per class)
$ 176 2 children ($11.00 per class)
$ 240 3 children ($10.00 per class )
Students will perform at the end of the 8 weeks.
Don't forget to get your full pass for the Philadelphia SalsaFest.
It will be an amazing new event happening on Halloween weekend just an
hour way from us. International salsa instructors, performers,
incredible workshops and lots lots of social dancing.
HSH will be part of this brand new congress and we
would love to see all those Princeton salseros joining us and
supporting this event. Don't miss it!
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