• First off, the dancer must be at the theatre in the dressing room two hours before their scheduled time of performance.
• One hour before performance time the dancer must be in their costume, hair and make up, reading in the practice room and stretched.
• The dancer or group must not be backstage at anytime except one number before their dance. The dancers will go backstage one number before their dance and wait quietly and out of the way in the wings. They then go on stage once the other dancers have cleared the area and perform their dance. Once they finish their dance they must leave the wings quietly and immidiately.
• The dancers are NOT allowed to go into the audience at any time within their performance category. The dancers are either in the dressing room or practice room waiting.
• The dancers MUST stay after they have performed until the end of the category for ajudication. This is where all the dance groups from the category go back on stage for medals and awards.
• During ajudication, the group will line up from shortest to tallest and walk on stage with the rest of the groups in that category. They will then stand in a line and wait for the adjudicator to come to the stage with their feet in parallel position and their hands behind their backs.
• When the dancers are on stage for ajudication there is absolutely no talking or fidgeting as the adjuicator is still marking you even though you are not dancing.
• The dancers must stay together at all times.
• No food or drink while in costume, you must cover up or change, we don't want you to spill.
• Even though the festival gives you scheduled times to perform, they are not always exact. The time given is the time that the beginning of the category begins, sometimes the categories can range from a few dancers to up to twenty. Most of the time the festival runs behind or head of schedule as well depending on how swiftly the categories are moving. Many other factors can affect stage time such as extended lunch hours, technical difficulties with equiptment backstage, redances, getting props on and off stage and how long it takes the adjudicator to get to the stage and how long he or she talks to the category on stage about what they need to work on.
• Lastly, HAVE FUN. Meet new people and have new experiences. Performing is a key aspect of dance and it is supposed to be fun.

• RED lipstick: This should be as close to the actual color red as possible versus more purple or brown toned colors.
• Cover-up to match you skin tone. Usually when you go on stage the bright lights wash out your face so you should get cover-up that is one shade darker than your natural color, specially if you're pale.
• Black Mascara and Black eyeliner
• Black False Eyelashes. They should be longer than your natural eyelashes but not so long that they get in the way or look silly.
• Eyelash glue. You not only need this to glue on your eyelashes but to glue on rhinestones near your eyes and such as it isn't a skin irritant for most.
• Dark Brown and Silver eyeshadow. These colors have been selected by the advice of a cosmetologist as these colors make you eyes bigger and are the best colors for the stage lights being used.
• Pink blush

Hair

• Lots of hairspray and gel. You aren't allowed any bangs or fly aways on stage except for hip hop
• Bobby pins and bun pins
• hair elastics big and small sizes.
• hairnets
• Optional: Hair piece. (This is a hair piece that is like a hairnet of hair that you cover your bun in to make a curly hair style with half as less effort and time. These usually cost around $30.)