Create the Perfect Christmas Dance Recital Costume For Your Dance Group

Winter wonderland dance recital audiences love to see winter in all its glory portrayed by dance students. For dance recital planners, this can be managed in a variety of ways. Students may already have some of the accessories and trims needed. The favorite of the perfect Christmas dance recital costume for your should include snowy white leotards and filmy white romantic tutus. Add them to a red, green or white accessories and it is an instant start to a Christmas Dance recital costume.

For the ballet students, try going toward a traditional English Christmas color scheme with the use of dark forest greens and lavender pink leotards and tutus. With just a bit of trim or sequins in contrasting colors, this has all the earmarks of a traditional Christmas ballet in the Dickensian style.

Nothing makes a Christmas dance recital like bright costumes bought online. The basics of a truly stunning Christmas dance recital come alive with metallic leotards and catsuits. Go for the gold with a heavenly golden scene. Choose a metallic gold leotard, hot pants and tights or leggings in metallic gold for jazz dance routines. Spritz golden glitter on the face and hair and the costume is complete. Be sure to use contemporary Christmas music for added interest.

Audiences will be thrilled by a Christmas dance recital that uses great Christmas Night Sky accents in silver and deep sapphire blue costumes. This works well for tap, ballet, and jazz and even acrobatic dance routines. Focus on a good lighting schedule for the stage or performance area. It's only a matter of starting with a leotard or catsuit and adding color coordinated tutus or accessories. Choreograph the dance routines to suit the theme of the Christmas Night sky using music that is not predictable. For tap and jazz students this might be blues music and for ballet something from Berlioz or Shostakovich.

If the audience has a special desire for a complete Nutcracker Suite Christmas recital, vary the costumes so that each dance routine appears in a variety of colors in alternating dance sequences within the ballet. Much of Nutcracker Suite costuming is little more than a classic or romantic tutu, white or pink tights and a basic leotard. For the sequences like the Chinese Dance or the Czardas scene, Dance Clothes UK offers a complete line of accessories dance wands and tiara headbands to complete the dance costume.

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Create The Perfect Easter Recital Costumes For Your Kids

Creating a great recital costume for your kids is easy. When creating a dance costume for your kids it can be fun for both you and your child. Letting your children help in the process of making their dance recital costume teaches them a range of skills and allows them to express creativity and imagination.

One idea to start off when creating a dance recital costume is to choose a leotard as the basis. The leotard should be a plain solid color and for an Easter costume yellow, orange and white would be the obvious choice. You may have to use the color and style already decided on by the producer of the recital.

Then it is a matter of using your imagination to get creative with decorating the leotard. Get creative with what you add onto the leotard. A simple sparkling fringe can look great across the leotard. Adding rhinestones and even gluing lace to the sleeves of the leotard can make the leotard look extravagant.

A simple way to make an Easter tutu for your child is to measure their waist, cut a piece of elastic and then sew it together. Cut long strips of tulle making them twice as long as the length you want. Generally about 4 yards of tulle net will be enough but this can depend on how tall your child is and how full you want the tutu to be. You will then tie the strips to the elastic circle you have sewn using a regular knot. Use as many strips as you want to and make them vary in sizes to give a larger or smaller puff. Afterwards make sure the knots are aligned. Add ribbons, bows or glitter onto the tutu to give it more style. You can add things such as a feather boa sewn around the waist of the leotard to give it more of a fancy look. You can then consider accessories: things such as hats, gloves, tiaras, and sparkling tights. Give it much thought and let your child join in on the fun of choosing what she wants to add to the costume.

When you have finished, all that's left to do is try it on and take those memorable photos of your dance recital costume. When the time for the show comes around be proud of the hard work that you and your child put into making the costume and enjoy the show.

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Top Five Ways To Create Atmosphere In The Theatre: Using Staging Systems

When people come to the theater they are expecting a powerful roller coaster of emotions, whether it be to laugh or cry. You need to create the right atmosphere and mood to perfectly position the audience for a truly mesmerizing show.

Creating atmosphere in any sized theater can be a complex task. Every aspect of the performance must be considered such as the stage lighting and sound to set the right tone and ambiance for the audience.

Yes acting is key but brilliant acting set against tired drapes and curtains, in a poorly lit room, with poor sound output is not going to make for a memorable show. It is a combination of all of these things that will make the show special.

Some tips on how to create this atmosphere include:

1. Stage lighting. This is very important because lighting can create many different impressions. It is practical in the sense that it can convey the time of the day to the audience who are watching a play. I.e. lighter colors for the sunrise or darker tones for dusk. It can also be highly symbolic. Colored lighting is very popular as it can instantly change the mood of a scene on stage.

2. Staging systems, such as sound systems, are also important. Having a good technical base to control the types of sounds the audience hear is very effective in creating mood. For example, setting up speakers around the room can mean that different sounds are played out around the theater to engulf the audience in the performance.

3. The set. The set can be a complex task because it is very difficult to keep changing the background of the set to convey the type of scene. However, props or small items can be brought onto stage to help with this.

4. The acting is obviously a key part to the performance and is a major influencing factor to how enjoyable and how atmospheric the play can be. One director says, "The acting is crucial but it is also everything that happens around that acting which can tie everything together. It is about the whole theater not just what is happening on stage."

5. Finally, to create atmosphere it is vital that there are experienced staff backstage who can help bring everything together by working efficiently and professionally backstage. Having relevant technicians on hand is important as any technical hitches can be dealt with quickly and with minimal fuss. The smooth running of the production will always show in a performance from the moment the audience member walks into the theater to the moment that they leave.

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