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2007/2008Class Session Dates

and Registration Information

Fall Session:
September 11 to December 2, 2006

Registration Dates:
Saturday, September 9

10am-12pm Rehearsal Hall,

264 Sunset Hills, Herndon


Sunday, September 10 2-5pm,

Reston Community Center


Scholarship Auditions:

September 10 3-4:30pm RCC

Winter/Spring Session:
January 8 to May 6, 2007

Registration Dates:
Sunday, January 7, 2007 2-5pm RCC


Scholarship Auditions:

January 7 3-4:40pm RCC

Click here for more registration info

 

Fall Schedule

Class Descriptions

Dress Code

 

Also - check out our staff page - RIA is growing!!

 

 

Class Locations

RIA holds classes at two locations:

The Reston Community Center and The Reston Community Players Rehearsal Hall.
Please check the Class Schedule Page to determine the location of the class you will be taking.

The Reston Community Center (RCC): 2310 Colts Neck Rd., Reston. (Located in the Hunter’s Woods Plaza Shopping Center.)

Reston Community Players Rehearsal Hall (RH): 264 Sunset Park Dr., Herndon (Located in Sunset Park Complex)

Check the map for directions

 

REACHOUT: Dance!

Program Scholarship Auditions

 

Fall Session: September 10, 2006 3-4:30pm
Winter/Spring Session: January 7, 2007 3-4:30pm
Open to all students 4-17 years old
Reston Community Center, 2310 Colts Neck Rd., Reston

Come prepared to dance. Students must be accompanied by an adult.
Please arrive no later than 2:45 pm

Bring evidence of financial need to audition. (Pay stub or 1040 tax form from 2005; OR Letter from employer verifying work hours and monthly pay.)

For more information please call 703-403-8768

 

 

RIA

   SPRING

      PRODUCTION

         VIDEOS

  

 

ORDER YOURS TODAY

 

If you wish to purchase a DVD and lasting memories of your child’s performance, please download and complete the order form.   All DVD’s are $25.  If you wish your DVD mailed directly to you, please add $3 for a total of $28.

 

RIA SPRING PRODUCTION – SHOW I

“The Treetop Gang Takes Hollywood”

RIA SPRING PRODUCTION – SHOW II

“Showtime!”

Click here to download the order form...

 

IMPORTANT - Please note our revised inclement weather

and closing policies

 

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    COSTUMES

We spend many hours determining the correct costumes for each class. They are always age appropriate and of the highest quality possible. Kindertap will need one costume; all other students will need one costume for each class they train in. Costumes include all accessories (hats, gloves, etc.)

• Fees – All costumes fees are $55 per student, per class. REACH!OUT DANCE Scholarship does not cover costumes fees.
All scholarship students are responsible for the costume fees.
Costume fees are due in full no later than March 15, 2006. Costumes will not be ordered for students whose costumes fees are not paid on time.
   

ABOUT RIA

The Reston Institute for the Arts (RIA) is headquartered in Reston and Herndon, Virginia and was created to foster the area’s growing interest in the performing arts. RIA, a 501-C3, not-for-profit, tax-exempt corporation, is the only organization in the area whose ultimate goal is to combine dance, music, voice, and theatre into a fully integrated performing arts school for maximum enrichment of the entire community. 

Established in 1981, RIA offers an annual program consisting of two semesters of dance, music, theatre instruction to students of all races, ages, national and cultural origins, income levels, and talents. Today, RIA is one of the area’s fastest growing arts organizations. Professionally trained staff offer weekly classes for youth in theatre jazz, ballet, tap; adult jazz, ballet, and tap; and vocal training at the Reston Community Center and Reston Community Player’s Rehearsal Hall in Herndon. In addition to classes, RIA sponsors the RIA Dance Ensemble, a dance troupe for local youth. They have performed at the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, and numerous area schools and festivals.

We are Members of:

Art Alliance of Reston

Arts Council of Fairfax

Herndon Council for the Arts

National Dance Association

National Dance Educators Association

 

Selected events and activities are partially funded by the Arts Council of Fairfax, IBM, Jack and Jill, Inc., and private donations.

 

Click here to learn more about RIA

Annual Special Events

 

New York Trip - An opportunity to attend workshops in jazz, tap, and theatre by master artists and attend Broadway plays in New York City. 

  

Kaleidoscope, Student Choreography Showcase - RIA students choreograph and perform their own original dances at a special event at the Reston Community Center Theater. 

 

Lecture Demonstration - RIA students demonstrate what they have learned during their semester as they perform their daily technique, dance class progressions, and choreography on stage.

  

Spring Production - This culminating activity is an original dance production performed by all of the RIA dancers in full costume at the Reston Community Center’s Center Stage. 

    

  

 

is a scholarship-based program designed by RIA to provide economically disadvantaged youth an opportunity to participate in a performing arts program as a means of expression, developing discipline and life skills. This program provides partial scholarships per semester in dance training, production, performance, and other related activities such as master classes and workshops. Scholarship students are selected from fall and winter auditions.

 

 


For more information please email rianews83@gmail.com

or call 703-403-8768.

  

--- REFLECTIONS ---

If you missed our fantastic gala and celebration, you can still catch glimpses of the fun we had that evening.  Check out our 20th Anniversary Celebration reflections...
   

From the Tappers’ Corner...

 

Parents, if your tapper needs new tap shoes, feel free to check the tap box.  Our Tap Box is for everyone—turn in old shoes that no longer fit and pick up a pair that does.  If you’d like to order your tapper new tap shoes, go to www.discountdance.com and order tie up tap oxfords.  The various brands include Giordano, Capezio, and Bloch.  The brand will guide you through their sizing process.  Typical beginner tap shoes should cost around $18.00 Any questions, call Ms. Robin at 703-587-4448.

 

And...

 

I’m soooooo looking forward to seeing all of you each Saturday.

 

As we start working towards our Spring Production, I’d like you to do a few things for me:

 

  • Make every effort to be in class EVERY Saturday (we’ve got a lot of learnin’ to do)

 

  • BE ON TIME!

 

  • BE READY TO TAP and WORK HARD! (come with your ears on)

 

  • Make sure your parents know when to pick you up, on time, after class is over.

 

  • Please dress in your class tee-shirts, black dance pants, tap oxfords, and white socks.

 

  • Please communicate all  ‘honor-roll-makers’ to me!

 

     .........Ms. Robin
   

 

    

      

   

   

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