Odyssey's SHUT UP AND DANCE

Our incredible production, ALL THAT JAZZ, choreographed by Autumn Roberts, has been invited to perform with Odyssey Dance Theatre's SHUT UP AND DANCE.

Our performance will be March 25 at 8:00 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall. The show is Romeo & Juliet. Purchase tickets on-line or the box office $30-$45.

Spotlight Schedule

Here it is – remember it may be subject to change, but this should be it. Please check the schedule when you arrive and we will keep the website up-to-date. Competition is held at Viewmont High School in Bountiful. Directions: Take the 500 S. Exit #317 and make an immediate left onto 1000 N., stay on this road, the school is on the left side about ½ mile – you CANNOT park in the bus load/unload area in the front of the school – they will ticket you!!

http://www.infinitydance.org/SpotlightSchedule2010.pdf


Also here are the parent and spectactor guidelines put out by Spotlight.
http://www.infinitydance.org/SpotlightGuidelines.pdf

Your routine numbers are listed. If you registered for solo/duo/trio, you MUST have the sticker on your CD, so please make sure you get them BEFORE the competition or get from Robin at the competition. I will try to get them out the week before.

ADMISSION IS FREE – invite your family and friends. NO PHOTOS OR VIDEOTAPING IS ALLOWED!! Please pass it on to your family members. Photos and DVD’s will be available to purchase at the competition. If we get enough people signed up for the DVD it is cheaper and you get all the routines, so please sign up if you are interested. Last year we got them for $85 for our entire studio which is a great deal!! We have well over 100 total routines.

Please arrive at least an 1.5 hour ahead of your first routine (or time that the door opens), this competition can run up to an hour ahead of schedule and do not leave until you are done competing, we had a problem with this last year and students missed their routines. Please NO FOOD in the dressing rooms, there are places to eat outside of the dressing rooms and we will need room for everyone to have their stuff. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE clean up after yourselves and pick up your area BEFORE you leave and make sure you have EVERYTHING. We had several costumes left behind at Dance for Life and Hollywood Vibe!!

Also, 2nd reminder that Thunderstruck Competition fees are due by March 6! Late fees will be posted after that date. If you want to do your solo/duo/trio, please register and pay in the office, we have to register on-line so no late entries will be accepted. NOTE: You cannot do your solo/duo/trio if you have an account balance (including tuition), so please make sure your accounts are paid in full.



We are nearing the end of year, so it is VERY important that all your fees are paid in full. Recital information will be going out next week with what we are doing, so please watch your email and check the website regularly. We will be doing two combined shows due to BEHS under construction.

Important Updates and Notices from Infinity Dance

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Monday, March 8 Bear River Hi-Stepper Spring Show 6:00 p.m., $5/adults, 5&under free
Routines: BC Funk Co., Slow Me Down & Feeling Good

Tuesday, March 9 Box Elder High Rockette Invitational, 6:00 p.m., $4/adults, $3 under 5
Routines: Slow Me Down, Hand That Feeds, All That Jazz, Ladies on the Dance Floor

Monday, March 29 Northridge High Cardinelle Collage 6:00 p.m., $6/adult, $4/students & children, 4&under Free
Routines: Hand That Feeds, Bleeding Love and Ladies on the Dance Floor

Thursday, April 1 Davis Drill, 6:00 p.m., Cost ?
Routine: All That Jazz

Thursday, May 6 Clearfield High Drill, 6:00 p.m., Cost ?
Routines: Run, LA Girls and All That Jazz

Still to come: Roy High and maybe others. We will keep you posted!

PICTURES
Pictures are scheduled with Mackley Photo (flyers are in the office). Please come in your JAZZ costume. For combined routines, the teacher will decide which one.
Ogden - April 7, 8 & 9 starting at 4:00 - full schedule will be posted next week

Brigham - April 13 & 14
April 13
4:30 - 3&4 #1 and 3&4 #2
5:15 - 5&6 Year Olds and 7&8 Year Olds
6:00 - Squad and Teen Prep
Individuals will be scheduled until 7:45 if you want an "extra" photoshoot

April 14
4:30 - Tiny Company & Mini Company
5:15 - Teen Company & Jr. Company
6:00 - Jr. Ballroom & Sr. Ballroom
6:30 - Sr. Company
Individuals will be scheduled until 8:00 if you want an "extra" photoshoot

Team pictures are $19 - you can purchase more if you want, but it is not required. Packages are available from $89 to $184. Flyer is available on the website. Make checks payable to Mackley Photo!! Order forms will be available in the office. Please fill out correctly with team name, costume color and name spelling to allieviate errors.

Recital Information:
May 17-19 @ Val Browning Performing Arts (Weber State) - 6:30 p.m. Arrive ready to go by 6:00 p.m. You will be required to let the office know what night you are going to and how many tickets for each show if going to both. You will get 6 tickets with one student ($25) and 10 tickets for family of 2 or more ($40). Recital fee is due with April Tuition. Additional tickets will be sold at $6/each. The venue will be printing tickets for us to hand out. Maximum attendance is 1,700.

With BEHS under construction, we will be holding two Spring Reviews with both studios. 3-8 Year Old Recreational Teams, Squads and Prep Teams will be on May 18 with one routine per Company performing, and Advanced Overall Solo/Duo/Trio Winners for 2010. Company girls will be helping the 3-8 year old teams that night. NO parents are to be backstage or in the dressing rooms. JeriAnn will assign two girls to each Company girl to be responsible for. Please pick your student up AFTER the Finale.

Recital practice will be held May 17 at 4:00 p.m. for 3-8 year old recreation classes, Squads and Prep Teams ONLY, need to be there from 4:00 - 5:00 to learn the finale. Prep Teams do not have to stay for rehearsal. We will concentrate on the little ones & Squads.

3-8 Year Old Recreation, Squads & Prep Team Review will be held May 18 at 6:30 p.m.
Company Review will be held May 19 at 6:30 p.m.

$25 for 6 tickets, $40 for 10 (family of 2 or more students)
$6/additional tickets - determine which show you are attending.
Recital fee due with April tuition.

Production tonight

Everyone has production tonight until 9 pm.

Hollywood Vibe results!

Infinity Dance took Hollywood Vibe by storm, and Mandy and Autumn and all the teachers are SO proud of the dancers!!

Below are some of the results.

OVERALLS:
Overall Production: Ladies on the Dance Floor (Alan's)
Jr. Solo: Kenidee Allen
Intermediate Solo:
3rd - Kristing,
2nd - Kristing,
1st - Kylee Allen
Intermediate Small Group: The Queen
Teen Lyrical Solo:
3rd - Berklee Moss,
2nd - Andria Johnson,
1st - Savannah Lancaster
Teen Musical Theater Solo: Amber Hartman
Teen Open Solo: Sadie Christensen
Teen Duo/Trio: Aspen & Amber
Teen Small Group:
3rd - Paranoid,
2nd - Poker Face,
1st - Run
Teen Large Group:
2nd - Hand that Feeds,
1st - Bass Drops
Senior Jazz Solo:
3rd - Savanna Kemp,
1st - Amber Williams
Senior Lyrical Solo:
2nd - Alix Cardon,
1st - Amber Williams
Senior Modern Solo: 1st - Hailee Payne
Senior Open Solo: Teyler Hawkes
Senior Small Group:
2nd - Slow Me Down,
1st - Feeling Good
Senior Large Group: 1st - Stare at the Sun
Overall Junior Solo - Kenidee Allen
Overall Intermediate Solo - Kylee Allen
Overall Teen Solo - Savannah Lancaster
Overall Senior Solo - Amber Williams (Jazz)
Overall Teen Duo/Trio - Amber & Aspen
Overall Senior Duo/Trio: Amber & Campbell
Overall Intermediate Duo/Trio: Kylee/Journey/McKaila
Overall Intermediate Group: The Queen
Overall Teen Group: Run
Overall Production: Bleeding Love
Overall Senior Group: Stare at the Sun
Most Entertaining: Ladies on the Dance Floor
Best Choreography: Bleeding Love (Mandy Shaw)
Junior Dancer of the Year: Kylee Allen
Senior Dancer of the Year: Amber Williams

Free routines to take to Nationals to compete for the Battle of the Stars: The Queen and Stare at the Sun

Awards:

Platinum (The highest you can get)
Ladies Hit the Dance Floor, L.A. Girls, Hand That Feeds, Paranoid, Turn Your World Around, Bleeding Love, The Queen, Stare At the Sun, Secret, Feeling Good, Run, Dance Class, What If?, Don't Make a Sound, Already Gone, Bass Drops, Jungle Drums (Kylee Allen, Solo), Slow Me Down, Dance, Poker Face, Eyes on Fire (Savanna Kemp, Solo), Weep, Mockingbird (Savannah Lancaster, Solo), Maneater (Amber Williams, Solo), The Story (Alix Cardon, Solo), Let It Rain (Cambre Roberts, Solo), What I've Done, Come Down to Me, Don't Cry.

High Gold:
Save You, The Interrogation, All Forgotten, If My Friends, Hometown Glory, Walk to the Park, Never Seen Blue, Bubbles, Let's Hear It, Been Around, Chasing Pavement, Panther, Butterflies, Don't Work Yourself Up, Imagine, Blackbird

Gold: Kaleidescope, Suddenly Monday, I Enjoy Being a Girl, My Philosophy, Dark Road.

Black hot shorts

Please remember to take black hot shorts to the Project Smile performance!

Thursday classes

This is just an update about our Thursday classes for Companies. All Company classes will NOT be held, at either studio, with the exception of Mini Company and Tiny Company at Ogden, and Tiny Company in Brigham.

The schedule in Brigham will be:

Tiny Company Hip Hop (3:30-4:30 w/Kassie)
Tiny Company Rehearsal (4:30-5:30 w/Kassie)
Tiny Company Ballet (5:30-6:30 w/Michelle)
Tumbling (7:30-8:15 w/Barb)

The other companies are participating in Project Smile.

Important Updates from Infinity Dance

Hello all,

We have a VERY busy week ahead - so here is everything going on! Project Smile T-shirt money is DUE NOW or bring on Thursday. The office staff will have a list of who hasn't paid!

Syracuse High School Drill Performance
Wednesday, February 17
Time: 6:00 p.m. - arrive by 5:30 p.m.
Routines: Feeling Good, Jump, Run & Poker Face (This has changed slightly from our first notification.)

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Project Smile
Thursday, February 18 @ Rose Wagner
Tickets $12 at the box office
Routines in performing order: All That Jazz, Ladies on the Dance Floor (Alan's), Stare at the Sun, and Hand that Feeds
Mark Stage at 4:40-5:00 - Please arrive by 4:15 p.m.
Rehearse Finale 5:20-6:15
Get Ready for Show 6:15-7:00
Parents: Please drop food off to your students, they do not want parents in the dressing room/area.

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Hollywood Vibe
Friday & Saturday, February 19 & 20 @ Davis Conf Center
Classes begin at 5:00 to 10:00 on Friday - pick up wristbands from Robin after 4:00 p.m.
Classes on Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Competition starts at 4:00-8:00 p.m. - The list is on the site.

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Upcoming Events (that we are aware of):
March 8 - BR High Drill Performance (Bass Drops, Slow Me Down & Feeling Good) - 6:00 p.m., arrive at 5:30 p.m.
March 9 - BE High Drill Performance (All That Jazz, Slow Me Down, Hand That Feeds, and Ladies on the Dance Floor (Alan's)).

There will be a few more Drill Performances (Roy & Northridge at least)

Let me know if you have any questions.

Until next time,
Natalie
www.infinitydance.org

Syracuse performance

Hello all,

We are taking the following routines to the Syracuse Dance Line performance on Wednesday, February 17, 2010.

Run--Ogden Senior Specialty
Jump--Ogden Petite Company
Secret--Ogden Junior Company
Poker Face--Ogden and Brigham Company Specialty

We are still not sure as to times, and will let you know ASAP.

Dance for Life Results

We are very proud of ALL of our soloists and teams who competed at Dance for Life and did extremely well! There was some excellent competition at there, and it was great to see our teams on the floor and performing so well.

In addition, Infinity took home ALL the specialty awards given out by the Odyssey Dance Theatre judges.

Highlights include:

MOST ENTERTAINING: ALL THAT JAZZ, Choreography Autumn Roberts
(This award included an invitation to perform at Shut Up and Dance next month. Very cool, since it includes all of our Companies, from Petite to Senior! You go girls!)

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: RUN, Choreography Kassie Searle
BEST COSTUME: COWS (Kassie Searle)
BEST TECHNIQUE: STARE AT THE SUN, Choreography by Autumn Roberts

OVERALL ADVANCED ROUTINES:
9th: Jump
6th: Stare at the Sun
5th: Poker Face
3rd: Run
2nd: Slow Me Down

OVERALL INTERMEDIATE ROUTINES:
5th: A Friend Like Me
3rd: Feelings

Overall Novice Routines
5th: Showoff
2nd: Fly to Your Heart

Important Updates from Infinity Dance

REMEMBER, THERE IS NO DANCE TODAY, because of the President's Day Holiday.
This is for BOTH BRIGHAM and OGDEN studios. Also, please remember that
this is the time of year when I start emailing you a LOT! Please read
every email, check the blog regularly, and let me know if you have any
questions.

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Thunderstruck competition fees will be posted this week for all Companies,
Prep Teams, Ballroom and Ogden Jr. & Sr. Squad. Fees are $35/routine,
$80/solo, $90/Duo-Trio. If you want to do your solo/duo/trio, please sign
up in the office with your payment, they do not have a registration form
and it must be entered on-line with our group routines. No late entries
will be accepted!!! Remember competitions are MANDATORY!! Schedules have
been out since October 2009, so hopefully you didn’t plan anything on
competition dates.

Money is DUE no later than March 4. Late fees will be posted after that
date. All costumes, shoes, tights, accessories, tuition MUST be caught up
by March 4 also. Please understand we cannot cover all these fees and
there are still some outstanding accounts.

Also as a reminder, recital fees are due with April Tuition and will be
posted to your accounts with April Tuition ($25/one student & $45/family).
Tickets will be available to pick up in May only if your accounts are
paid in full NO EXCEPTIONS! Remember the recital will be held May 18&19
at the Val Browning Center at Weber State. Rehearsal will be held May 17
for everyone. More to come, so watch the website!!

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The Hollywood Vibe Schedule is NOW on the Web site. Hollywood Vibe is this
weekend, and attending this competition are ALL COMPANIES, both Ogden and
Brigham. Check the schedule for more information.

http://www.infinitydance.org/HollywoodVibeSchedule.doc

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Please do not forget that Thursday is our Project Smile performance.
Performing will be Hand that Feeds, Production, Stare at the Sun and
Funky. Even if you are not going to perform, please buy a ticket to
support this very important benefit concert.

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No Dance Tomorrow

This is just a reminder that there will be NO dance tomorrow at EITHER studio, because of the President's Day holiday. Normal classes will resume on Tuesday. Please remember, also, that there will be NO COMPANY CLASSES at either studio on Thursday, as we will performing at Project Smile.

Further Hair Instructions

Due to last night's confusion over hair, we wanted to clarify. Especially for longer hair. For girls with longer hair, PLEASE USE BIG BOBBY pins, instead of the small one. Crisscross those pins so that they will not move.

If you cannot keep the hair contained with gel or hairspray, PLEASE get a hairnet, but make sure it is the same color as your daughter's hair.

As you section off the pieces, please use styling gel, pomade, or hairspray. You need something to help with whispies.

Hair Instructions

Below are the links to this year's UPDATED hair instructions. We appreciate your patience, and know many of you were anxious to know how this hair will be done.

The short hair version can be found here:
http://www.infinitydance.org/shorthair.pdf

The long hair version can be found here:
http://www.infinitydance.org/longhair.pdf

Let me know if you have any questions.

Dance for Life Information

GENERAL INFORMATION:

• Audience admission is $7.00 or bring a can of food and enter for only $4.00 (canned goods will be donated to the Ogden Rescue Mission).
*Thanks to those who donated last year. It was a great success.

• All dancers must check in at front desk, including groups, 1 1/2 hours prior to scheduled performance time. Please be ready to dance at least 1 hour ahead. Competition may run up to 1 hour ahead or behind schedule. Music must be checked in at least 1 hour prior to scheduled time. Please bring a CD and a tape in case of any technical difficulties.

• Dance down will take place after groups are finished. It will be a 1/2 hour class while tabulations are being done. Cost will be $10.00 and all proceeds will be donated to the Colorado Aids Project or foundation of choice.

No solo practice tomorrow night

Due to sickness there will be no solo practice, with Autumn, tomorrow night.

Weekend Rehearsal Schedule

ALL THE LISTED ROUTINES WILL BE PRACTICED AT THE OGDEN STUDIO!!

Autumn will be rehearsing the following routines.

Poker 12-1
Alan 1-2
Liz 2-3
Heads will roll 3-4