End of Year Concert 2024
The annual showcasing of the talents of our students from Primary to Advanced 2 ballet and all our contemporary, jazz and tap students will take place on Saturday 14th December at Waverley College's Performing Arts Centre. This concert is the highlight of our dance calendar and greatly anticipated by all our students, parents and teachers. Scroll down to read more about important dates, Timetables and packing lists.
Click the link above to purchase any new shoes, body stockings, underwear or hair packs needed for the concert.
Important Dates
Placing Rehearsal – Wednesday 11th December (3.45 – 7.15 pm) at St Johns Hall, Darlinghurst
Thursday 12th December – SENIOR STUDENTS ONLY (See timetable below)
Stage Rehearsal – Friday 13th December (1.00 – 6.30pm) at Waverley College
Concert Date – Saturday 14th December (all students are in both 10.30am and 1.30pm shows)
Extra Rehearsal Timetable
Placing Rehearsal – All concert participants are required for this rehearsal on Wednesday 11th December at St Johns Darlinghurst. We will aim to allow the younger students to leave as soon as they have completed their rehearsal.
Stage Rehearsal – To allow students to feel safe and confident and to meet health and safety regulations, Waverley College requires all students who are to perform in the concerts to attend the stage rehearsal on Friday 13th December. We will aim to allow the younger students to leave as soon as they have completed their rehearsal.
Placing Rehearsal - Wednesday 11th December
Placing Rehearsal - Thursday 12th December
Directions for Stage Rehearsal and Concert Day Drop off
Stage Rehearsal
Concert Day
Please arrive promptly at your designated time with the following already done:
- Hair in neat bun using hairnet, pins and hairspray. Please see attached video for instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J_NYucebYU
- Face made up with light foundation, blusher, eye shadow (Light brown), eyeliner and mascara – (we will put on lipstick once in costume) – older students may wear false eyelashes if they wish.
- Please arrive wearing your concert tights (all ballet students need tights and these will given to students at Wednesday 11th December rehearsal at St Johns. Only nude dance body stocking or high leg underpants and bra should be worn under tights. NO ORDINARY UNDERWEAR SHOULD BE WORN.
- It is preferable to arrive wearing the TTJBS tracksuit, alternatively wear clothing that is easily removed and that does not need to come off over the head. NO T-SHIRTS to be worn please.
- All clothing items and shoes MUST be LABELLED with your child’s name.
- BRING clean and labelled BALLET, JAZZ, TAP and CONTEMPORARY SHOES (as required).
- BRING A BOTTLE OF WATER WITH YOUR NAME ON IT AND A LIGHT SNACK (NO NUTS) TO EAT between shows. Light snack will be eaten in very short break between shows. Students will still be in costume so please don’t pack a messy snack. Make sure you have a good breakfast before you leave home. Students will not be able to use the canteen between the shows and parents will NOT be able to drop off food to their child.
- Leave all valuable items at home. MOBILE PHONES OR CAMERAS ARE NOT PERMITTED IN THE DRESSING ROOM.
- At the end of the concert, students will be able to take their costumes home with them (with the exception of Snowflake (Saturday Open Class) costumes which are the property of TTJBS).
We estimate that your child will be free to leave after the second show at approximately 3.30pm.
We have a tradition of saying goodbye to each student at the Christmas Tree which will be in the auditorium just in front of the stage.
Students will be brought to the tree in the order of Primary to Advanced 2. Please come into the auditorium if you are not already there to collect your child. We will only let students depart if their parent is present to collect them.
Concert Participation fees
These fees include GST, a costume and tights (which students keep), a headdress, a digital recording and download of both concerts and all extra rehearsals and stage rehearsals.
FAQ's
Even if your child is unable to join us on concert day, they are more than welcome to attend classes in Term 4. We will continue to work on RAD syllabus for ballet and technique for other dance styles alongside learning the concert dances. Students who are unable to attend the concert day will be given a role to understudy to ensure they experience the value of learning new choreography, patterning and working as a team.
Regular attendance of weekly classes is necessary to assist each class as a whole. Concert preparation is about team work and with only one term to prepare the concert piece, every class is valuable. This is especially so for those students who only attend one class a week.
Extra rehearsals may be requested for certain classes in exceptional circumstances.
The compulsory extra rehearsals are on Wednesday 11th and Friday 13th December as detailed above.
As we are nearing the end of the year we do not insist on new shoes for the concert.
We do however require that all shoes are well fitting and clean.
If you do wish to purchase new ballet shoes we recommend the MDM Ilara or Intrinsic Pro canvas ballet flats from Ballet Emporium in Bondi Junction or the Performa Canvas Split Sole flats from Bloch.
You get to keep a costume for each dance style you have booked your child into. The only exception is the open class costume as the ballet school funds this group and there is no concert charge for this class.
We request that our audience do not take photographs or videos during the performance.
We have a professional videographer who will film both concerts. A download of these will be made available to each participant, the cost of which is included in the concert participation fee.
Group photographs will also be taken prior to and in between the concerts. These will be available to purchase via digital link one week after the concert.
Your registration and payment of the concert fee will be taken as an agreement on your behalf to ensure that your child fulfils the concert commitment requirements of regular class attendance and the compulsory ballet rehearsals on Wednesday 11th December and Friday 13th December.