Performance Guidelines
Read these guidelines BEFORE you come for performance!
Step 1: Purchase your Performance Items
The pieces you will perform will affect what you need to purchase, but in general you will need:
- Pink tights and leotard (or color as specified for the performance), labeled with your name.
- Black pants, labeled with your name.
- Your studio jacket over (if you don’t have a studio jacket, wear a zip-up jacket)
- Nude briefs, if instructed for costume:
Briefs for older girls
Briefs for younger girls - Tennis shoes (don’t wear your ballet slippers across the parking lot)
- Earrings: As specified by teacher
Step 2: Label everything with your first & last name
Step 3: Before you come, do your hair & makeup
Step 4: Bring to Theater
- Dance bag (labeled with your first and last name)
- All the items you purchased above (pink tights and leotard, black pants, studio jacket, nude briefs, tennis shoes, earrings
- Extra pair of tights
- Dance shoes for the performance, as appropriate.
- Water in a closed container
- Healthy lunch or snack if you will be taking a lunch or snack break. NO EATING IN OR NEAR THE COSTUMES!
Step 5: At the Theater
- Be prompt at call time (you will receive notifications when you need to be at the theater and check the Parent Info doc often).
- Sign in with the person in charge when you get to the theater so we know you’re there.
- Go to the bathroom before you put your first costume on!
- Put on your first costume and check your makeup and hair.
- Put all your personal items into your dance bag and put it away neatly.
- FOLLOW THE RULES:
- No eating or drinking anything other than water in costumes. No candy. No gum. No food that will stain your hands, face, or costumes.
- No sitting in tutus.
- No leaving the theater between performances unless you are not performing again. Once you are at the theater, you must stay there until your parent picks you up.
Step 6: Before you leave the theater after performance
- Hang up your costumes or give them to the person in charge backstage. DO NOT LEAVE COSTUMES OR PERFORMANCE ITEMS ON THE FLOOR.
- Gather all your personal items and put them into your bag, and take everything home with you that you brought.
- Sign out with the person in charge.
Still have a question?
Please reach out to our administration staff at dance@bamsocal.com


