Official National High School Dance Festival T-shirts are available for pre-order HERE.

Question: Will festival t-shirts and other apparel still be available for purchase at festival?
Honest Answer: I don't know, my guess is probably in limited supply but there has not been any official information. So, I can't say for sure.

Note: YPAS has nothing to do with this form or the t-shirt sales. This link was provided to teachers and I am simply passing it along. 

For those attending the 2016 National High School Dance Festival. The list of scholarships has finally become available. The scholarship information, scholarship list and the scholarship application have been included below. Students interested in auditioning at the festival should review the list and return a completed and signed application form to Ms. Herndon by Feb. 5th. Absolutely no late applications will be accepted. Note that YPAS is only allowed to have up to 10 auditioning students. Slots will be filled by seniority, then first come first served.

• Due the limited number of slots, students should only sign up to audition if there is a specific scholarship they are  interested in and would be able to accept if offered.
• Other students wishing to audition just for "the experience" are welcome to do so but only if there are open unused slots. If you fall into this category, meaning there are either no scholarships you would or could accept but you still want the experience of a large audition, please attach a note indicating this to your application and you will be added if there are open slots. (You should also put at least one scholarship on the application just for the festival folks).
• Per festival rules, 9th grade students are not allowed to audition. 
• Per festival request, only high intermediate and advanced students should audition. This will be a competitive, fast-paced and crowded audition. The experience can be counter-productive and overwhelming for beginning and intermediate students who attempt to audition. For many it is best to wait until they are at a more advanced skill level. If you are unsure of your level, please see Ms. Herndon or one of the other dance faculty for an honest assessment.

Due to the weather, freshmen students are no longer required to see Stuart Pimsler this evening.  If a student chooses to see the show, his or her ticket will still be available for pick up at the box office.

Your tickets will be available at the box office under your name.  The show starts at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, January 23 in the Bomhard Theater, 501 W Main St.  Be prepared to take notes during the show. Pay specific attention to the concept of each piece, the music, lights, sets and costumes and the movement that you see.  Your will receive a rubric outlining what to write in your paper once we return to school.  

National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA)
2016 Award Application Packet Now Available
Deadline to apply February 19, 2016

The NDEO Artistic Merit, Leadership, and Academic Achievement Award recognizes outstanding dance students. Any 11th or 12th grade student who has previously been inducted into the National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA) is eligible to apply for this prestigious national award as long as the student's NHSDA chapter holds a current NDEO Institutional Membership.

Again this year, the National Winner of the award will receive a $500 scholarship. There will also be National Finalists and Honorable Mention recipients.

For more information and to download the application packet, please go to www.ndeo.org/nhsdaaward

The NHSDA meeting has been rescheduled for Monday, January 25 from 2:30-3:30 in the Annex Conference Room.  Be ready to team up underclassmen with upperclassmen to play dance trivia.  Prizes include gift cards and t-shirts.  

Reminder:  If we are in school, all sophomore, junior and senior dance majors will be participating in master classes with members form Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater on Thursday and Friday of this week during Red 3 and White 4.  Be prepared for modern.  All classes will take place in your regularly scheduled rooms.  

​Here is a trailer of Bohemian Grove, the company’s new work that is the central piece of their current tour. "Through a montage of statuesque movement, animal imagery, and probing monologues, Bohemian Grove provides a searing glimpse into the world of the “superclass.”   You can read more about the rep for their January 23rd public performance here, and their entire company rep list and other videos  are here.

•          Reminder- January 23rd public performance at the Kentucky Center.
•          Finally, I just wanted to make you aware of other public (and free!) events taking place during the dance company’s residency.  They are listed below.

 
The Book of Longing: Letters to Leonard Cohen
7:00 p.m., Thursday, January 21st ; FREE
McQuixote Books & Coffee
This is actually a literary event – eight Louisville poets will read/perform their personal responses to poetry by Leonard Cohen that inspired a piece that the dance company will perform two nights later in the Bomhard Theater. Here’s a link to the Facebook event.
 
Community Movement Workshops
2:00 and/or 3:30 p.m., Sunday, January 24th,  FREE, but registration required
Todd Hall, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts
Open to all levels of dance/movement experience; here’s the Facebook link and here’s the landing page on our website. There are two identical classes, one at 2:00 and one at 3:30.
 
Community Arts Conversation; “The Artist as Citizen: Creating Community Inclusive Work”
6:00 – 8:00 p.m., Monday January 25th ; FREE, but registration requested
Tim Faulkner Gallery
A community conversation about the roles and ways artists can engage communities in art-making.  Here’s the Facebook event, and here’s the registration link.
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The next National Honor Society for Dance Arts Meeting will be Wednesday, January 20 from 2:30-3:30.  Please meet in the Annex Conference Room.

Many students are absent today, Friday, January 8, due to the change in security to level three. Because of this, we will only be rehearsing Les Sylphides during Red 4 today and will not stay after school to rehearse.  Instead, Les Sylphides spacing rehearsal will take place on Monday, January 11 after school from 2:30-4:30.  Please plan accordingly.  In addition, all sophomores will be having their regularly scheduled modern class during White 4 this Monday, January 11.  Their Dance History day has been moved to February 1.