Please find attached the cast list for Sleeping Beauty! Please reach out to Mrs. Rosemarie Redman for more information and to teachtix.com for ticket information.

We are pleased to share with you the link that will take you to the audition information for this year’s All-School Musical, “The Little Mermaid.” Please reach out to Cindy Lowa, Director, cindy.lowa@windermereprep.com if you should have any questions.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yq4fM3F551NdYz89HYgJZxXSV-B48RAIt83QcYZbPSA/edit?usp=sharing

There has been a change in travel dates for this unique opportunity. The West Coast Dance Experience dates are now February 13-16. Additional information and registration will be available during the month of August.

We are pleased to share with everyone this year’s Community School 1-3 grade audition materials for Sleeping Beauty. Please read through the information carefully before completing the registration form. Please reach out to Mrs. Redman (rosemarie.redman@windermereprep.com) if you should have any questions. Thank you.

Sleeping Beauty Audition Requirements: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sTzC7RpSLCW0xZSJ3OrTGevk-I4AAqIz9AJguc5H4Cs/edit?usp=sharing

Sleeping Beauty Registration Form: https://forms.gle/KUrBEh8sFtCmCk437

May is always an exciting time for me as it is time to reflect on how far we have come and where we are off to next. As I finish my fifth year here at Windermere Preparatory School I’m genuinely amazed at how much our dance program has evolved and grown. Not only in numbers but also in the vision and direction of the program. The dance department offers students 1st through12th grade the opportunity to seek life enrichment through dance. Our goal has always been to develop passionate, well-rounded dancers and performers. Our program offers a lower school curriculum where every student will take a semester of dance from 1st – 5th grade. There are over 150 middle and high school dancers that choose to take dance every day for 50 minutes. Their dedication and perseverance can be seen in class and at their performances. ?Whether it’s our 4th and 5th graders singing and dancing in their showcase, A Taste of Broadway, or our middle and high school dancers performing in their Winter and Spring concerts. It is evident when you see them that the process that has been taken in class has so much impact on what’s happening to them as individuals and on stage.

Now with Juilliard Creative Classroom, which has been a fantastic tool used to enhance the concepts and principles that were already being taught at all levels, it has helped our students to be exposed to such incredible core works which have inspired some of their compositions. We have found ways to make
Juilliard Creative Classroom fit organically into our dance curriculum with the help of our curriculum specialist Becka Vargas, who has been an amazing asset to our dance faculty. Juilliard Creative Classroom has been especially helpful within our IB dance program, which our dance curriculum is based on, especially with composition and analysis. Students have been given the tools to begin creating at an early age exploring with confidence and excitement. The knowledge they have gained is carrying over with them into our middle and high school. As Shanthi Ramakrishna, an IB dance student and our salutatorian this year in the high school said so eloquently, “Dance is an outlet to channel creative energy, which I believe is transferable across any discipline.”