**We are now accepting online registrations for classes! Tuition and fees are still to be submitted in person.

The images are presented as a slideshow–click play and enjoy!

Classrooms are our dressing rooms for most students. Teens, Adults, and Soloists are in the Green Room or Third Floor Studio. Please come as near dressed as possible. We will do our best to stay on time.

Hair: Dancers secure hair off neck in buns, braid, or twist. (3-5 year olds should also try to accomplish this.) No bangs as it shortens your face.

Dressing Room Requirements: No food or eating in costume! No messy anything in the dressing rooms. Nothing that will spill or melt. We are guests at Bishop Verot and will be fined for any damage to classrooms! No writing on Blackboards, desks, papers etc. Use trash barrels in the hall.

Videos by parents may be taken during the rehearsals, not during the performance.

There can be no filming in the theater with personal cameras, tripods, cords, lights, flashes, or changing seats during the performance. House Manager will stop the show if not observed. Every exciting moment of your student’s performance will be professionally taped & available for purchase in the fall after viewing.

All children in the theater must be attended at all times. This is an insurance requirement.

Be alert to playing in the aisles, steps, pit, and/or lobby. Absolutely no eating or drinking is allowed in the audience area. The House Manager will be firm. Guests who cause a disturbance will be relocated.

Please enter and exit the theater quietly, and then only between dances.

Free school parking is available in the adjacent lots. There is a Security Guard on patrol.

Theater: Lobby and Tickets Open 2:00p.m. day of show. Tickets are $12.00 at the door. Seating open near 2:30p.m. Priority given to handicapped audience members. No strollers in aisles!

Everyone: please pick up your Dressing Rooms! Names on all articles helps us return them to you.

Tappers: use elastic in shoes (no ties please)!

Dressers/Helper Moms: Bring extra safety pins, bobby pins, sewing kit, hair spray, story books, quiet games, dry snacks. Release children to parents only.

Reminder to all: no costumes in the audience, please. It destroys the magic of performance. Bring a plain leotard to change into instead.

Dancers & Parents: We encourage you to stay for the entire show to give your support not only to our guest artists but to all those who have put their heart into dancing for you. By seeing all ages you may better plan your class choices for next season.

Dress Rehearsals are all day on Saturday, June 12, after the tech crew has had a chance to prepare for our dancers. The schedule will run approximately:

Dancers Arrive (11:00am)

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

• Ballerinas
• Bunnies
• Worry Bird
• A-Train
• Angels (3 sections)

1:00 – 1:30 pm: Crew Lunch – Dancers Continue

1:00 – 2:00 pm

• Soda Pop
• Shiny Objects
• Russian Ballet (4 sections)

2:00- 3:30 pm: Broadway Bound Scene EVERYONE!

• Puttin On The Ritz
• Let’s Misbehave
• Jelly’s Jam
• Rythm King
• I’m A Brass Band
• Le Jazz Hot
• Friends C Me Now

3:30 – 4:00 pm: Finale

4:00 – 5:30 pm

• Dance Alliance
• Lyrical – Melody
• Waltzing Blue
• Sleeping Beauty

5:30 pm: Madam Butterfly per needs (Required Rehearsal – in Costume)

Also, C. Smith Photography will be in our studio on Monday, June 14, to take formal pictures of our dancers. You may sign up for an appointment at the studio.

Dance Bochette partners with Gulfcoast Dance, Inc. (nonprofit) and guests from Dance Alive National Ballet in this year’s performance at the Anderson Theater.

You may be the perfect person to become an Angel! You love dance and know a dancer who is studying the art of dance now. Please help our nonprofit mission by securing as much support as possible on any level before we go to press. Family and friends’ businesses are great resources. Lift the educational and performance opportunities for yourselves and this community with continuing workshops for kids, master classes for pre-professionals, and scholarship by audition each January.

1,000 professionally printed souvenir programs will offer great exposure. All Gifts, Patronships and Advertisements are tax deductible donations to the nonprofit Gulfcoast Dance.

To become an Angel, or for information on submitting an advertisement to our program, download a printable submission form. You may also send us an email.

Alyce Bochette is co-director of Dance Bochette. She spent 20 years touring internationally with dance companies including Mark Morris, May O’Donnell, and Rachel Lampert. For the May 21 event, Bochette will dance one solo piece, “Suspension,” choreographed by May O’Donnell in 1939, with music by Ray Green.

The Bochette Dancers include local dancers Mariquita Anderson, Jennifer Reed, Lynn Vosloo, Kelley Natella, and Gerri Reaves, and the performance features actors Katie Pankow and Jim Brock. Music for the reception and intermission will be performed by pianist Mary Seal.

With collaboration in staging and lighting design by Edison State College theater director, Stuart Brown, Alyce Bochette brings together original music and video by Rodney Woolsey and original poetry by Jim Brock, created specifically for the dance. The performance builds on the theme of salvaging, with modern dance that is accessible, lyrical, vibrant, and whimsical.

Bochette wants her audience to consider the dynamic of salvaging in their own lives, whether it is spiritual, familial, ecological, or nostalgic, in which we seek to reclaim, recover, remember, and even revise our own lives. The event brings together the audience as community. It also affords each of us a little space for personal reflection.

Images from the reception before the performance can be seen on the Fort Myers News Press website. To see images from the performance, click the play button on the slideshow below.

(Thanks to Robin Cornett for performance images.) Congratulations to Alyce, Stuart, Rodney, Jim, and our dancers on a fine performance!

For tickets, call 239.337.1933.

Thursday, April 1 will be a special Cecchetti workshop day with Deborah Vinton, ISTD Cecchetti Examiner and Director of the West Coast Civic Ballet. Times are listed on the studio calendar as follows:

• 2:00 Grade 2
• 3:00 Grade 1
• 4:00 Grade 4
• 6:15 Grade 6

Ms. Vinton will evaluate each dancer in their preparedness for exams this year.  Treat this workshop like a “preview” Exam, arriving thirty minutes early, dressed properly.

Cecchetti Exams:

Our Cecchetti Exams are currently scheduled for Sunday, April 25. For those of you wishing to participate in exams this year, make your plans now. Dancers are seen 2 or sometimes 3 at a time and in grade order. You will need to arrive thirty minutes before your exam time. Dress is professional: Black Leotard, Pink Tights & Ballet Slippers, Hair neatly close to the head (bun). No jewelry except small post earrings if you like. No skirts, T-shirts, cover-ups or leg warmers worn for the exam.

Dancers will also be auditioning for roles in the June 13 Festival of Dance performance of the Prologue and Fairy Variations from Sleeping Beauty.

This Master Class and audition is for advanced dancers, with experience and pointe work for corps de ballet, and solo roles.

Casting results will be given the same evening as the audition. Choreography will begin the next day at 8:45am and continue on both February 27 and 28. Weekly rehearsals will be decided by the director and cast.

Taking a trip in cultural immersion through Connect to Care to Bahia, Brazil; getting laughs out of the interactive antics of Naples City Improv; attending Bob Macomber’s annual book signing bash on Pine Island and celebrating Fort Myers legendary ballet instructor Jeanne Bochette.

Jim McLaughlin will be hosting the program, which will air on Friday evening at 8:30pm. For more information, including channels, view the WGCU content guide.