Performance Opportunities

Our 2024-25 performance season is coming! 

 

SPRING SHOWCASE

Downtown Dance offers students several performance opportunities each year. Children's classes present an end of term demonstration for friends and family during class time on the last day of Fall and Winter terms. All students (age 3-adult) are encouraged to participate in the Spring Showcase each June at the Corvallis High School Theatre.

Our Spring term culminates in this performance at the CHS Theater in June. Students are not required to participate, but classes will focus more on this process in spring than previous terms. There are many benefits to being part of the showcase and we strongly encourage participation. It not only serves as an educational tool, but as a way to explore dance as a performance art…and it is fun!

While preparations for the show do not begin until Winter term, it is our intention that students participate in classes for the full year, with an opportunity for in class performances in fall and winter to prepare for the final performance at the end of spring term. The fall and winter terms offer a foundation of technique, while the spring term focuses primarily on the performance. Students not enrolled in a class by winter term may not be able to join during spring term.

Example Spring Showcase Timeline (2025)

  • February- commitment form and initial costume fee due, classes begin work on showcase material
  • March- Costumes ordered
  • April- classes increase time spent on showcase material
  • May- final costume fee due, classes continue preparations for the show
  • SHOWCASE 2024:  June 13th & 14th  at CHS Theater

REPERTORY GROUPS -   

We have several Repertory Groups that are open to students  enrolled in at least one class each term. These performance groups are by audition and they perform in various local dance performances. Our season will kick off at the Majestic Theatre in "Making Spirits Bright: A Winter Dance Concert",  December 7th & 8th, 2024. Other performance opportunities may include Terpsichore on April, 2024 at the Majestic and our Spring Showcase June 13 & 14, 2025  at CHS.

AUDITIONS for 2024-25 season:

  Contemporary Repertory Group (teens-age 12+) -  Sat., Sept. 21st  9:45-11:15 a.m. 

  D3 Hip-Hop Crew- (age 11+) - Sat., Sept. 21st  12:00-1:30 p.m. 

  LEAP (age 8+) - Sat., Sept. 28th  10:30-11:45 a.m.

 

Leap

Little Dancers’ Education And Performance Group

This group offers an extra performance opportunity for our younger dancers and meets only in fall term. Dancers will perform a holiday piece at the Majestic Theater in December.

Age: 8-11 yrs
Cost: $130
Audition Fee: $10
Costume Fee: TBD

2024 AUDITIONS:  Saturday,  9/28,  10:30-11:45am

Proposed Rehearsal & Performance Schedule:

Fall 2024

>Saturdays 10:00-11:30 am:   10/19, 11/23   

>Thursdays 4:25-5:25 pm:   10/3, 10/10, 10/24, 11/7, 11/14

>Possible extra rehearsal, Tues. 11/26  4:30-5:30 pm

(Schedule may change, based on dancer availability- TBD)

Making Spirits Bright - dance concert- Majestic Theater, Dec. 7th & 8th

*Tech rehearsal- one evening, week of 12/2-12/5

*Dress rehearsal-  12/6  6:00-8:30 pm

*Shows: Dec. 7th 3:00 pm and Dec. 8th, 3:00 pm

Youth Repertory Group

D3 HIP-HOP CREW

Choreographer and Director: Katherine Sanders

Age: 11+
Cost: $145- rehearsal term, $60-continuing terms
Audition: $10
Costume Fee: TBD

2024/25 AUDITIONS:
Saturday,  9/21 12:00 - 1:15 pm

*Proposed Fall Rehearsal & Performance Schedule (final rehearsal schedule based on dancer availability): 

  • Fridays, 6:00-7:15 p.m.
  •  9/27, 10/4, 10/25, 11/1, 11/15
  •  
  • Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
  • 10/19, 11/9 & 11/23

Possible Tues. rehearsal, 11/26, 5:30-6:30 p.m.- TBD

*MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT -dance concert- Majestic Theater, Dec. 7th & 8th

*Tech rehearsal- one evening, week of 12/2-12/5

*Dress rehearsal-  12/6  6:00-8:30 pm

*Shows: Dec. 7th 3:00 & 7:00 pm and dec. 8th, 3:00 pm

***D3 is a year long commitment. Other shows include: Terpsichore- April 2025 and Spring Showcase June 13 & 14, 2025. Winter and spring rehearsal schedule TBA.***

Youth Repertory Group

CONTEMPORARY REPERTORY GROUP 

Choreographer: Cheliss Thayer and Jenna Moser

Director: Katherine Sanders

Placement will be by audition. There will be two performance groups, one will be led by Cheliss and will begin in September and perform in December, June and possibly April. Another, led by Jenna, will begin later in the fall term and perform in April and June.

Age: 11+
Cost: $145- rehearsal session, $60- continuing sessions
Audition: $10
Costume Fee: TBD

2024/25 AUDITIONS:
Saturday, September 21st, 9:45-11:15 am

Rehearsal & Performance Schedule:

  • >Proposed rehearsal schedule:
  • Cheliss CRG: Sundays, 2:00-4:00 pm, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 11/3, 11/17, 11/24 12/1  & Fri 10/25 9-10:30 am
  • Jenna CRG: Saturdays 9:00-11:00 am, 10/19 or 10/26, 11/2 or 11/9 and 11/16 or 11/23
  •  
  • >Final schedule is TBD, based on choregrapher’s schedule and dancer availability.

SHOWS:

Making Spirits Bright, Majestic Theater, Dec. 7 & 8, 2024

Terpsichore, Majestic Theater, April 2025- dates TBA

Spring Showcase 2025, CHS theater, June 13th and 14th

Adult Repertory Group

*This group is in connection with the Int/Adv Contemporary class on Monday evenings.* 

>Rehearsals begin late in fall term, 2024

>SHOWS: April. 2025 and June 13 & 14, 2025

 

***For more information regarding this group contact Katherine at 541-829-0070***