2008-2009
Tammy Jo's Studio/River Cities Dance Company Competition/Performance Schedule

March 13-15, 2009 KAR Regionals Charleston Municipal Auditorium

March 18-23, 2009 MA Nationals Ft. Worth Texas, Convention Center

(High School Dance Teams only)

April 24-26 Star Systems Regionals Charleston Municipal Auditorium

May 15-17 Recital Greenup Co. High School gym

June 15-20 KAR Nationals Myrtle Beach, SC

Myrtle Beach Convention Center

Please mark these dates on your calendars. We are very excited about our competition and performance schedule for the year! We have tried to select competitions that are well organized, reputable and in venue close to home.
Thank You,
Tammy Jo, Natalie, Rachel, Shawn and Nicole

TO DANCERS AND PARENTS

Thanksgiving Break will be Wednesday, November 26 - Friday, November 28. Classes will resume on Saturday, November 29.

Christmas Break will be Tuesday, December 23 - Sunday, January 4, 2009. Classes will resume on Monday, January 5, 2009.

Observation for Mixed Classes (Tuesday 5:30 and 6:30 and Thursday 5:30 and 6:30) will be Tuesday, December 16 and Thursday, December 18, during class times.

Recital Costume Fee for Dance Classes is $50 and due no later than December 1.

Recital Costume Fee for Tumbling is $45 and due January 5. Please do not miss the deadlines. We can only order costumes paid for by the deadlines.

Dance Company Members need to pay $50 deposits per costume by November 17 and full payment is due by December 1,

Thank You and Happy Holidays! Tamrny Jo's Studio

Say Hi to Nicole

Nicole Smittle is back teaching tap. Nicole taught tap at Tammy Jo's a couple of years ago before taking some time off to be with her family. She is once again teaching toe timing to Tammy's tappers.

Tammy Jo's has tentative plans to compete at Charleston and Myrtle Beach. Be sure to check with the front desk for up to date schedules.

Got Henna?

Have you seen all the dance students with henna tattoos lately? Free henna tattoos have been offered at Tammy Jo's the last few days as a sampling of Earth Girls Henna. Free tattoos will be offered again on Tuesday, September, 16. Allow 45 minutes from tattoo time until dance class begins. Henna tattoos must not inferfere with dance classes. (Photo is borrowed, representative only, not work of
Earth Girls)



Book Earth Girls Henna for your child's next birthday party, for baby showers, wedding showers, anniversarys, festive parties, or just a girls' night. Check out the website at www.earthgirlshenna.com. Evening and weekend appointments available. Pay per design plus $35 for the henna artist's travel costs and appearance fee. (Subject to less than 25 miles round trip travel time. If the distance is greater, the apparance fee will increase). The $35 is payable in advance and the cost per design varies by complexity and application time. Tattoos generally cost between $5.00 and $50.00. The tattoos for most birthday parties generally will cost between $5 and $10 each. If you choose, you may pay an hourly rate of $100.00 and hire the artist for as many hours as you want. The henna artist will tattoo as many people as she can within the paid time frame.


To book Earth Girls Henna for your Event, send an email to batscout@aol.com, or call Lisa Pruitt (Thorner) Brandenburg (Chloe Thorner's mom) at 606-831-9978.


Henna is plant material from the plant lawsonia inermis. The plant is dried, ground into a powder, and then the powder is combined with essential oils, sugar, lemon juice, and water to make a paste. The paste is applied to the skin as a design and once the paste comes off, a reddish/brown stain is left as a temporary tattoo.


Once applied to the skin, lawsone molecules gradually migrate from the henna paste into the outer layer of the skin. Though henna's lawsone will stain the skin within minutes, the longer the paste is left on the skin, the more lawsone will migrate. Henna paste will yield as much dye as the skin can easily absorb in less than eight hours. Henna tends to crack and fall off the skin during these hours, so it is often sealed down by dabbing a sugar/lemon mix over the dried paste, or simply adding some form of sugar to the paste. This also adds to the colour of the end result, increasing the intensity of the shade.

When the paste has fallen off the skin or been removed by scraping, the stain will be orange, but should darken over the following three days to a reddish brown. Soles and palms have the thickest layer of skin and so take up the most lawsone, and take it to the greatest depth, so that hands and feet will have the darkest and most long-lasting stains.
Chlorinated water, lotions and soaps may spoil the darkening process: alkaline may hasten the darkening process.

What is black henna? Black Henna” is a misnomer arising from imports of plant-based hair dyes into the West in the late 19th century. Partly fermented, dried indigo was called “black henna” because it could be used in combination with henna to dye hair black. This gave rise to the belief that there was such a thing as “black henna” which could dye skin black. Indigo will not dye skin black. Pictures of indigenous people with black body art (either alkalized henna or from some other source) also fed the belief that there was such a thing as “black henna.”

Most so called "black henna", or black temporary tattoos have a dye included called PPD. PPD can cause severe allergic reactions, with blistering, intense itching, permanent scarring, and permanent chemical sensitivities. Estimates of allergic reactions range between 3% and 15%.

Real henna does not cause these injuries and very few people have been known to have sensitivies to real henna. If you are allergic to essential oils, lavender, lemon juice, or sugar you should not get a henna tattoo.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

YAHOO! CLASSES HAVE BEGUN

TODAY IS THE FIRST FULL WEEK

NICOLE IS BACK TEACHING TAP.

Dance Off Claymation

cute little video

Get Ready, Get Set

FALL DANCE CLASSES BEGIN

THE TUESDAY

AFTER LABOR DAY

COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS.....

A new journal entry for Shelby Edge's CaringBridge site was posted today.

Read the latest update now by using this link: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/shelbyedge

Shelby

Dear Dance Friends:

Please keep Shelby in your prayers, hearts and minds. She has fallen ill and is hospitalized after significant exposure to e-coli.

In order to stay updated and send messages to Shelby and the family, visit http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/shelbyedge

Enter Shelby's full name

REGISTRATION FOR FALL

FALL REGISTRATION

Fall registration will occur on August 11-14 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on August 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

Classes begin on September 2nd, 2008.

Summer dance flicks to watch

Here's a list of some dance movies you can watch over the summer:

1. 'Step Up' (2006)
Many anticipated that "Step Up" would meet the same sad fate as the previous bad boy street dancer meets good girl ballerina film “Save the Last Dance,” which it was compared to. But much to our surprise, the movie with the trite plot is turning out to be one of this summer's hottest flicks. Here’s a look at some of our other favorite movies about dancing.

2. 'Save the Last Dance' (2001)
This movie looked good in all the trailers, but didn’t quite live up to all the hype. Julia Stiles seemed awkward as Sara Johnson, the ballerina who gives up dance after the death of her mother.

3. 'Billy Elliot' (2000)
This critically acclaimed British film about a little boy whose true calling in life is to be a dancer is a heartwarming story and has won over 20 awards in both Europe and the U.S. A true “follow your dreams” tale, Billy Elliot was also made into a musical in London.

4. 'Dance With Me' (1998)
The fancy footwork of Vanessa L. Williams (Ruby) and Cheyenne (Rafael) is red hot and the chemistry is undeniable in this ballroom-dancing film with a Latin beat.

5. Footloose (1984)
Director Herbert Ross pulled a winning movie out of this almost self-consciously archetypal tale of teenage rock rebellion. Kevin Bacon stars as a hip city kid who ends up in a Bible-belt town where rock is frowned upon and dancing is forbidden. Bacon's character rallies the kids and takes on the establishment.

6. Center Stage (2000) PG13
The primary appeal of dance movies is the dancing, with some added emphasis on the romance the art expresses. Center Stage wins on these counts, despite its reveling in overly familiar characters and formula plotting. Or maybe this reveling is responsible for what goofy fun this film is. The arduous task of becoming a professional ballet dancer is incarnated by many good-looking teens, all stock dance-film characters affectionately portrayed mostly by newcomers. But center stage holds Jody Sawyer (Amanda Schull), who may never be a great ballerina, but she's certainly one sexy jazz dancer.

7. Dirty Dancing (1987) PG13
Dirty Dancing was a cultural phenomenon, but if the dancing in the movie doesn't seem particularly "dirty" by today's standards--or 1987's--it does take place in an era (the early '60s) when it would have. Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) has been vacationing in the Catskills with her family for many years. Uneventfully. One summer, she falls under the sway (as it were) of dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze). Baby is a pampered pup, but Johnny is a man of the world. It should come as no surprise to find that Baby, who can be as immature as her name, learns more about love and life--and dancing--from free-spirited Johnny.

8. Fame (1980)
Seven classes a day and a hot lunch. That's what New York City's High School for the Performing Arts guarantees. Stardom? That's something the school's teenage musicians actors dancers and dreamers strive for. Fame sings the body electric celebrating the growing-up process of honing talent confronting realities finding love living life. Director Alan Parker (Evita The Commitments) brings an energetic style to the crisscrossing stories of students (including Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, Barry Miller).

9. White Knights (1985)
Sometimes movies are built around a great idea begging for a story, in this case pairing ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov with tap great Gregory Hines. The resulting storm of dance in White Nights, as one would expect, is great, but the story is a little forced. Baryshnikov plays (in parallel to his own life) a Russian defector to the U.S. who ends up a prisoner in the motherland after his plane is forced to land in Leningrad during an emergency. Hines is an American expatriate who gets involved with the situation. Fortunately, performances carry the day, as the two male leads are both very strong as actors, and the supporting cast--Isabella Rossellini, Helen Mirren, and filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski (Moonlighting)--is terrific. --Tom Keogh

10. Strictly Ballroom (1993)
While the plot of this Australian film may seem a bit familiar, the whimsical tone and superb dance sequences will make you forget the movie's predictability. Scott (Paul Mercurio) is a champion ballroom dancer who wants to dance "his own steps." Fran is the homely, beginning dancer who convinces Scott that he should dance his own steps... with her. Complicating matters are Scott's domineering mother (Pat Thompson), a former dancer herself, who wants her son to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championship (the same contest she lost years ago), and a conniving dance committee that is determined that "there are no new steps!" The dancing is enjoyable, yet not overwhelming, and the movie strives hard not to take itself too seriously (the beginning of the film is even styled as a pseudo-documentary). Strictly Ballroom, while not so subtly imparting its moral ("A life lived in fear is a life half-lived"), is a laughable romp that's sure to be a crowd pleaser. --Jenny Brown

SUMMER CLASSES BEGIN JUNE 2, 2008

GREAT JOB ON RECITAL

RECITAL INFORMATION

Recital information:

RECITAL DRESS REHEARSAL: Attention Parents: Dress rehearsal is scheduled Friday May 16. at the Greenup County High School. This is a Dress Rehearsal, all costumes are to be worn.
Students in Ballet only should be there by 5:00pm. All Mixed Classes should be there by 5:45pm.
1st half Saturday night should be there by 6:30pm and 2nd half Saturday night should be there by 7:15pm Friday night. 1st half Sunday afternoon should be there by 8:00pm and 2nd half Sunday afternoon should be by 8:30pm Friday night.

Recital will be held Saturday May 17, 6:00pm & Sunday May 18, 2:00pm at the Greenup County High School. Students in Ballet only should be at the High School by 5:15pm Saturday night.

1st half should be at the High School by 5:45pm. 2nd half should be there by 7:15pm.
Recital Sunday May 18. 2:00pm.

Students in Ballet only should be at the High School by 1:15pm Sunday Afternoon.
1st half should be at the High School by 1:45pm. 2nd half should be there by 3:15pm.

Parents of participating Students only will receive free admission at the door, If All Prior Studio balances are Paid in Full. Guest Passes are available at $5.00 each.

All Monthly Fee's, Costumes and Competitions Fee's must be paid in full this week in order to participate in Recital. Classes continue 1 week after Recital.

Studio closed last week of May.

UPCOMING IMPORTANT NATIONALS INFORMATION!!!!

Congratulations

Great job at Dynamite in Columbus, Dancers!

Below is a link to a digital video of the Jacob's Ladder routine. Click on link to watch

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=33367283

Below is a link to digital video of tap routine - Girlfriend. Click to watch

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=33266859