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Ages 9-11. Tryout date:

Thursday July 18th, 

Time: 11:00 to 12:00

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Ages 12-18. Tryout date:

Friday July 18th 

Time 1:00 - 2:00pm 

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Dancers are to arrive at least 15 minutes early to warm up and prepare for class to start on time. 

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Tryout cost: $20 per dancer, cash only. Hand in at try outs. Please do not send etransfer. Thank you.

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What to wear: Any color leotard, and tights, shorts or dance pants. Hair up in bun or braid back.

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The majority of our students dance at the recreational level, but for the students who desire something more, we offer our dancers a competitive dance team that allows for more performance opportunities, a greater verity of training and being a part of a supportive team experience with like minded passionate people who all love dance and the performing arts. 

What to expect at Tryouts: 

Dancers will be led through different dance skills and combinations. Dancers will also be taught a phrase with music. 

Dancers will also take some time at in the last section of the tryout out to talk about the season, what to expect from the team, and each other as a competitive dancers. (Please send dancers with water)

Dancers are required a minimum of classes to be taken per week.  (Our new schedule will be published in August or sooner)

One Ballet class per week. (JR and SR Dancers are required)

One Jazz class per week.  (JR and SR Dancers are required)

One Lyrical class per week. (JR and SR Dancers are required)

One Contemporary class per week. (JR and SR Dancers are required)

One Leaps-Jumps- Turns Tech class per week. (JR and SR Dancers are required)

One conditioning class per week. (JR and SR Dancers are required)

One Group choreography class per week. (JR and SR Dancers are required)

One solo / duo class per week if dancer is in a solo or duo. 

Acro is only required if dancer is competing in a Acro routine ONLY. Acro competitive Team will attend a sperate tryout.

Our competitive dancers pay a capped fee that allows them to take as many classes at Solstice Studio as they wish. 

This means they can also take Hip Hip, Theater, Hoop Dance, Tap, Acro for no added cost to their tuition fees. 

The capped fees is a total of $331.05 INCLUDING TAX per month. 

This monthly tuition fee does not include, 

• Comp choreography fees ( group / solos / duo / trio/ 

• Comp entry fees to the three competitions we attend on Vancouver Island. Two in Nanaimo and one is CR

• Comp costuming costs

• All these details will be sent to dance families after tryouts, including chorography dates/times which will start in July and August from groups, trios, duos and solos. 

Which brings us to our team fundraising!

We are planning comp team group fundraising events that will start is August  through September to December with grocery store bagging and a studio dance to help our dancers pay for as many group fees as possible. Our goal is to fundraise enough funds to get our group choreography fees paid, our group entry fees paid and our group costuming fees paid. ONLY group fees are paid through our group fundraising. Solos and duos are welcome to do fundraising on their own through collecting bottles and other ideas. We also write up sponsorship letters for the dancers so they can go around to local businesses to raise funds to get their own costs covered.

NOTE: Dancers who are solo / duo / trio fundraising are not permitted to open an account through any organization using Solstice Studios name as a fundraiser event. ex: you cannot open an account at a meat shop using Solstice name. You have to open your own accounts if possible under your own name letting them the fundraising is only for your child and not our team.

When we group fundraise dancers will be in team jackets or shirts, uniformed outfits with tables fully decorated in Solstice Studio signage. We make sure our dancers are and look professional at all our events.

Dance Team group routine requirements. 

JR Dance Team will be learning and competing 4 x group routines. Lyrical / Jazz / Contemporary and Musical Theater. (These are your TEAM routines) The total cost of the choreography is split between the amount of dancers in these group routines. Fees are paid directly to the choreographer and are all due by  September 1st 

Dancers can request solos / duos / trios on top of them being in these group routines. 

SR Dance Team. Same as JR team choreography. 

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​Our new dance season CLASS schedule for 2025-2026 will be published at the end of this August. 

You do need to reserve a spot for our auditions.  Everyone is welcome who has some dance experience and feels their ready to level up their dance season. Arrive early to get warmed up before auditions begin. Bring water, you will be working up a thirst. Have dance friends? Audition together. We take your dance education seriously, but we also like to have a lot of fun which means we love laughing together and making the classroom dance experience as positive as possible. 

Competitions we enjoy attending. We attend two to three per season. 

 These are all the competitions that will be on Vancouver Island this season. We HAVE NOT chosen which three we will be attending yet. ​

• SUMMIT DANCE - Nanaimo March 5-8

• VIEW DANCE CHALLENGE - Nanaimo TBA

• STAR TALENT - Nanaimo, Feb 19th - 22nd 

• VERSASTYLE - Campbell River, April 16th - 20th 

• EUPHORIA DANCE - Nanaimo, TBA

• All comps start in 2026 after we come back from winter break closer to spring. Information to come.

Attendance and commitment: 

The Solstice Studio Competitive Team is created for the committed dancer. A dancer must attend at least 80% of their classes. If a dancer has to miss a class, we must be informed as to why. We do understand life happens. Please communicate with us. 

If a dancer has to miss a choreography day (that's a day scheduled on a none class day to learn their comp routine), the dancer will have to schedule a private lesson with the choreographer and pay for that private lesson as well. ($75 for one hour)

Each choreographer only has 2 x two hour sessions ( 4 hours total) to choreograph each routine. We book choreographers in through the summer, and at the latest through September on weekends for choreographers that live in CR. Each choreographer will then give a 1 x hour CLEANING time to each routine that they choreographed before Christmas break. Choreographers are hired in for 5 hours total. The practice time that dancers have throughout the season is in their group comp choreo class once per week, and solo/ duo class once per week. These two practice classes are apart of the dancers weekly dance class schedules.  These classes are where we practice, clean and refine the choreography of these routines, not learn the choreography. 

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Full time classes started up in September. Dates still to come.

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Thank you very much for your interest in the Solstice Studio Comp Team! We're excited to go on this journey with each of you to help you grow, learn, have fun , build friendships and see your dance dreams come true!

Please email us to sign up and add your dancers name to the list!

 email solsticestudio@hotmail.com

Have a great time at our tryouts! We're excited to see you!

Sincerely, 

Director; Jenny Koropecki and the amazing Solstice Studio Team 

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