Starship Dance Theater

2010 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

APPLICATION

Joyce DiLauro, Artistic Director

Starship Dance Theater is currently accepting applications for the 2010 Dance Scholarship Award. This scholarship will be awarded to a High School Student who has performed in at least two Starship Dance Theater Productions in the last 5 years, exhibits financial need, and has professionally and consistently inspired the directors of Starship Dance Theater.

Please complete the following information and submit by  April 15, 2010 by mail to Kimberly Herard, Board President-Starship Dance Theater, 402 Thompson Ave, East Haven, CT 06512 or email to

kimherard@literacyhow.com (”SDT Scholarship Application” in subject field).

Please include ALL of the following information (in the order shown):

Name:
Date of Birth:
Address:
Phone Number:
School presently attending:
Present Grade:

Training/Experience: List years of study, teachers, performances, awards, etc.

Describe your Dance Goals:  Describe the future in dance that you aspire to reach?

Explain financial need: Make sure to include how scholarship award will be used and its importance in your plans.

Deadline for submission of completed application: April 15, 2010

Scholarship recipients will be notified by mail.

The Starship Dance Theater does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or ethnic origin. The Starship Dance Theater actively seeks a diverse student/performing body.

Hi Everyone!

Here’s a new Master Schedule.  It’s the same as the old one only with details added on three dates:  November 15 is the COSTUME PARADE, set crew only on Wednesday, December 2, and cast needed from 6-10 p.m. on Thursday, December 3.

Master Schedule as of 10/19/09

Your friendly stage manager,

Sandy Connolly

Hey all– Alta here.

I can’t believe that tonight will be my last Tech/Dress rehearsal for Starship’s The Magic Toyshop. I’m getting ready as we speak (I know it’s early, anything to avoid studying for my huge AP Economics test tomorrow…) and going through my pre-show rituals I feel as though nothing has changed. I could be eight years old right now, excitedly preparing to be a Baby Doll.

Earlier today I swung by CVS to pick up some false eyelashes for the show, and you should have seen the look on the woman’s face as I checked out. “Are you wearing false eyelashes now??” she asked. Not many people buy false eyelashes, I suppose. But that’s one of the fun parts of performing. It’s like Halloween; you get to dress up in way you never get to, and be someone you aren’t. Everyone dreams of wearing big tutu’s and dancing about en pointe, so it’s bizarre to realize that, if only for a moment, you are living what most little girls dream about.

After last Sunday’s rehearsal, I’m not quite sure what to expect tonight. Between Isaiah’s laughing and Alicia’s giggling and my own chuckles, all of which occured throughout the Sad Dance, (and Cheryl’s shouts of “Isaiah! Alicia! We don’t want a repeat of last year!! — they laughed on stage during their pas de deux last winter) we had quite a night. One always get the giggles at the worst times! Something is just irrepressibly amusing about acting sad. When you’re actually performing it’s different, for you’re so into the dance that you don’t think to laugh. But during rehearsal’s I now force myself to look at Alicia’s hair or halter straps, and at Isaiah’s hat instead of at their faces. Eye contact is a sure-fire way to start a laughing fit…

But they always say a bad tech rehearsal is a recepie for a good show, so I’m not really worried. The Magic Toyshop always seems to come together for the show somehow. Maybe it is magic afterall.

You may or may not have noticed a small sign hanging up in the corner of the studio reading, “Students must take at least three technique classes a week to perform on pointe.” While this may not seem very important, it really is. If you do not take a decent number of classes a week, you can easily become injured. This should be taken very seriously, as no one wants to be hurt. You’ll thank yourself in the long run.

Credit:

The Denise Winmill School of Dance (photo)

Alta Dupont, Lead Can-Can in 2007’s Magic Toy Shop is pictured here with Abigail Geshwind, as a baby-doll.  Abigail was also featured in 2007 as Baby Bear.