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Festival Entries

FVAD offers students the opportunity to perform in Festivals during the school year, in a select set of dance festivals.  It is important to note that FVAD is not a competitive studio and does not focus on dance-sport competitions.  Festival entry options are offered solely to provide additional performance experience to our students.

Mr Carney’s Pre-Professional Academy students earned 1st place in ballet at the Surrey Festival.

Policies for students entering festivals

Overall Terms & Conditions for Festival Coaching:

  • Festival organizers schedule group or solo entries at any time of the day or week.  Be aware that festival performances may occur during normal work or school hours.
  • A teacher may not always be available to accompany students at their festival performance.  A parent or approved guardian must be available for each student.
  • Students who are absent from festival coaching/classes may require private lessons.
  • Students may excused from a festival due to lack of preparedness as determined by their Festival teacher.
  • No refunds will be provided if a student is excused from any festival.
  • Costumes will be provided for Festival Coaching group entries.
  • Costumes for solos/duos/trios may be rented from FVAD, or from Tidewater Dancewear, or bought/rented elsewhere, on approval by the Festival teacher.
  • All students interested in Festival entries must confirm their commitment to Festival Policies upon registration, and be enrolled in the prerequisite set of classes.
  • New students interested in a Festival solo will require a private lesson before approval.

Festival Coaching

Festival Coaching is provided as a 30-minute rehearsal block for each entry, except for Academy class entries and Pointe Variation entries which will be prepared in-class.

Festival Coaching Costs:

  • Festival Group Coaching: $20 per 30 min (for 3+ students)
  • Festival Solo Coaching: $50 per 30 min (for 1 student)
  • Festival Solo Coaching: $25 per 30 min (for 2-3 students)

Festivals generally charge entry fees from $20 to $100 per student entry.

  • An FVAD Festival Admin Fee of $10 per student entry covers our teachers’ costs of organizing the entries, confirming rules and regulations, preparing titles and submitting music.

Costs are correct at the time of writing.  Please view Rates & Fees for the latest costs.

Festivals 2027

  • Chilliwack Festival of Music and Dance
  • Festival du Ballet
  • Surrey Festival of Dance (if offered)

Additional festival options for Academy 8-12 students include:

  • Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP)
    • Entry details coming next.
  • BC Provincials (Performing Arts BC Festival)
    • Students must perform two contrasting solos in their dance discipline (i.e. Ballet) that each shows a distinctly different style, tempo, mood, or technical execution.  Students might pair a pure classical or pointe variation with a completely different sub-style like a demi-character, interpretive, or contemporary ballet.

FVAD Festival 2027 entries

The following lists the planned festival entries for group and solo dances for 2027.

View the School Year 2026-27 schedule at Class Schedules for specific Festival Coaching times.

Festival Groups with Festival Coaching sessions

  • Ballet 10-12 : Spring (Ms Edgley)
  • Broadway Jazz 10-12 : Dinner Party (Miss Piper)
  • Broadway Jazz 8-9 : Having a Good Time (Miss Piper)

Festival Groups with In-Class rehearsals

  • Academy 5 : Prepare for 2027-28 (Mr Carney)
  • Academy 6-7 : Vivaldi’s Spring (Mr Carney)
  • Academy 8-9 : Dances of Napoli (Mr Carney)

Festival Solos with In-Class rehearsals – Solo Variations

  • Pointe 8-9 : Solos will be learned in class (Ms Edgley)
  • Pointe 10-12 : Solos will be learned in class (Ms Edgley)
  • Plus 1-2 Saturdays in Jan-Feb for optional private coaching sessions

Festival Solos with Festival Coaching sessions – Additional Variations

  • Limited times available for students wanting to enter a different variation in the Festival Coaching solo sessions.
  • Priority will be given to Academy students, then Ballet 10-12, then Ballet 8-9
  • Final approval for additional variations will be made by Festivals teachers

Class Pre-requisites for Festival 2027 entries

Each Festival Entry (group or solo) has class pre-requisites associated with it, as noted below.

Contemporary – Group

  • Must be enrolled in the Contemporary class at their level.
  • Must be enrolled in at least two Ballet classes at their level.
  • Must enrol in the separate 30-min “Festival – Contemporary” class for rehearsals.

Broadway Jazz – Group

  • Must be enrolled in the Broadway Jazz class at their level.
  • Must be enrolled in Modern and at least one Ballet class at their level.
  • Must enrol in the separate 30-min “Festival – Jazz” class for rehearsals.

Ballet – Group

  • Must be enrolled in the Ballet 10-12 (Fri) class.
  • Must be enrolled in Pointe and at least two Ballet classes at their level.
  • Must enrol in the separate 30-min “Festival – Ballet” class for rehearsals.

Academy – Group

  • Must be enrolled in the Academy class at their level.
  • No additional requirements, once accepted into Academy.
  • Festival rehearsals will take place within the Academy classes.

Classical Solos

  • Must be enrolled in all Ballet and Pointe at their level;
  • Pointe classes will learn a set of solo variations, which students may use.

Classical Solos – Additional Variations

  • Must be enrolled in all Ballet and Pointe classes at their level.
  • Must enrol in a separate 30-min “Festival – Solo” class for rehearsals.
  • Priority will be given to Academy, then Ballet 10-12, then Ballet 8-9 students.