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  • I.   CODE OF CONDUCT
    A standard of excellence is the core of the Elevate Youth Dance Festival experience. All Festival participants will demonstrate respect and kindness towards other participants, festival staff and guest instructors, and the property of the Church of the Open Door.

    • Dancers must wear shoes upon entering and exiting the building
    • Costumes & dance attire must cover the midriff
    • Participants will respect the property of the venue
    • Participants will follow directions from Festival staff
    • No running in the hallways
    • No eating in the sanctuary or classrooms
    • We hope participants will thank the Festival instructors and staff

    II.  MEDICAL RELEASE
    In the event of an emergency the Festival staff will seek contact with the parent/guardian/emergency contact. If we are unable to reach the designated contact, your signature below authorizes owners, directors, and/or Elevate Youth Dance Festival staff to seek medical treatment for your child. The parent or guardian signing below authorizes the festival to take these measures and accepts full responsibility for the care your child receives and acknowledges that the Festival shall not be responsible for the costs of any medical care provided.

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  • III. LIABILITY RELEASE
    I, the undersigned, hereby waive for mysef, my child, heirs, issue and assigns all claims of liability against owners, directors, Elevate Youth Dance Festival, their staff, heirs and assigns.

    IV. MEDIA RELEASE
    In the interests of 1) protecting the anonymity of child participants and 2) upholding the integrity of the business practices of each participating dance school, the following stipulations regarding the usage of photography and video must be understood and observed by dance school participants including their directors, staff, teachers, families, and affiliates, and by the Festival owners, directors, staff, teachers, and affiliates.

    1. The Elevate Youth Dance Festival and photo/videography crew reserve the right to use any photography and video taken by our staff for the purpose of marketing and promotion in print, on the website elevatedancefestival.com, and on Elevate Youth Dance Festival social media platforms. Any students that appear in these materials will not be acknowledged by name or studio in any captioning, and these students will not contacted by the Festival owners, directors, staff, teachers, or affiliates.

    2. The Festival is not responsible for any media that participants, including studio directors, staff, teachers, families, students or affiliates post on their personal or business social media platforms. This includes media in which the Festival is tagged and media that include the Festival hashtag.

    3. Dance school directors, staff, teachers and professional affiliates are prohibited from posting photography or video on their professional website(s) or social media platforms taken at the Festival that include dancers from studios other than their own clientele. Dance school directors, staff, teachers and professional affiliates are also prohibited from using images that include dancers from studios other than their own clientele for the promotion of their studio. Media taken at the Festival used for these purposes must only picture dancers, clients, and staff of that studio. While this measure serves to protect the integrity of each studio, it is primarily designed to protect families who prefer to limit their children’s presence on social media.

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Introducing another one of our amazing master teachers, Ms. Carol. Let’s give her a warm welcome and get ready for Elevate TOMORROW!

Carol Schwarzkopf is a nationally recognized dance coach whose broad teaching background includes professional dance companies and schools, private studios, public and private K-12 education, as well as colleges and university students. She holds a degree from the acclaimed University of Utah where she earned a BFA in dance performance, graduating with honors. Her professional coaching, teaching, study, and performance endeavors have taken her all over the world. She has studied and performed throughout the US with companies such as San Francisco Ballet, Ballet of the Americas, Ballet West, Pioneer Theatre Company, Repertory Dance Theatre, Minnesota Dance Theatre, The Minnesota Opera, Isvorasul Romanian Dance Company, among others. She is a founding board member of Dance Educators Coalition, established to support dance artists teaching in the schools throughout Minnesota. Carol is also a Certified Health and Wellness Coach through the Mayo Clinic and is excited to inform her dance teaching with the latest research into training and coaching young dancers. This is Carol’s first full year at Creo and she’s eager to share best practices in dance education with staff and students.
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Introducing another master teacher: Heather Klopchin. Welcome Heather!

Heather Klopchin, originally from Goshen, NY, is passionate about performing, choreographing, researching, and teaching dance. She currently is a Principal Artist with Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater and has performed with the company in Germany, Mexico, and in locations across the United States. Heather has also performed with ARENA Dances, Zenon Dance Company, Stark Dance, Alternative Motion Project, Eclectic Edge Ensemble, Linda Lehovec & Dancers, Joe Chvala Flying Foot Forum, Paula Mann’s Time Track Productions, and Dancing People Company. She is currently the Chair of the Dance Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN where she teaches Ballet Technique, Modern Dance Technique, and Dance History as well as creating dance work for the St. Olaf Dance Department’s student company. Heather holds a BS degree in Management and a Dance minor from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo and a MFA degree in Dance Choreography and Performance from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
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