Anticipated Cost:

• Kit: $665.00 - Full Member Dancer/Apprentice 

• Hotel: $125.00 per dancer total

• Boxed Lunches: $25.00 per day

• PDT Breakfast/Snack fee: $20.00 per dancer

• Total of $885 - can be made in payments on DSP

Travel to and from will be a chartered bus paid for by fundraising.

Additional Fees:

• Scholarship & Recruitment Audition Fee: $45.00 (optional)

• Dancers are required to have the white PDT company leotard. They will need to purchase this if they do not already have it.

• PDT Company Members levels 3 and up are eligible to attend RDA. 

• Dancers must be at least 10 years old at the time of the festival.

• Dancers must be meeting their minimum class hours.

When: Friday, February 28th. 4:30-9:00 pm

Who: It is mandatory that all PDT dancers cast in an RDA piece take Adjudication Class.

What is Adjudication?

Each year, RDA selects an adjudicator for each region to visit its companies. The adjudicator observes a technique class and all prepared pieces, offering feedback to faculty and students afterward. In the following weeks, they provide written feedback on the class and pieces, announcing which works will be performed at the RDA festival. Adjudication offers valuable insight and constructive feedback for both dancers and faculty, highlighting strengths and areas for growth.

2025 Adjudication: Carol Anglin - Read bio here

• We only have six weeks until adjudication to create these works. Dancers wishing to participate must be fully committed to attending the festival, and attendance will be mandatory for all rehearsals.

• We will likely call additional rehearsals on MLK day, Presidents day, and potentially Sundays if need be due to cancellations for snow etc.

• Schedules will be made based on the availability of the guest choreographers, and can change due to this.

This year PDT will be presenting four works for RDA Adjudication: 

• Concert Works: 

  • Concerto in G - Robbie Gosnell - Cast List

  • New Contemporary Work - Lila Kushner

• Emerging Works:

  • New Work - Eliza Griffin

  • New Work - Charles Michael Patterson

Casting

• Each choreographer has full discretion over the casting of their piece.

• Dancers should not expect to be in every piece. 

• Not every piece will be selected to be performed at RDA. All pieces will be performed at Breaking Ground.

• The spring performance schedule is extremely rigorous between the spring concert, RDA, and Breaking Ground works. Dancers strength and well being is heavily considered to prevent injury and burnout when casting, alongside what the works require.

Audition for Lila Kushner’s new work:

• Lila will be holding an audition for 5/6 dancers for her new work on Wednesday January 8th from 6:00-7:30 pm (during contemporary class).

• She will be working with a smaller cast then last year

• 3/3x/4/4x dancers are not needed.

Through RDA’s Scholarship & Recruitment  process, dancers are able to audition for multiple scholarship and recruitment opportunities for summer programs, colleges, and year-round training programs across the country through one application. 

• Application Fee: $45.00

• Application Deadline: Monday, January 20th 

• The application process is completed fully online.

• Dancers will record an audition video and upload it through the online application.

• Sample combinations for the audition video are provided in the link below.

• Please share with Joy the programs you intend to audition for, she may have recommendations.

Details of the Scholarship + Recruitment Application process can be found here.

Joy will teach the following classes as RDA audition recording classes. Parents can come and record your dancer during class time for your applications.

• Saturday, January 11th:

  • Ballet 4/4x - 9:30-11:00 am

  • Ballet 5/6 - 11:30-1:00 pm

• Monday, January 13th:

  • Ballet 5/6 - 6:00-8:00 pm

Dancers are also welcome to come into the studio on their own time to record. Talk to Annie if you need assistance accessing the building outside of normal hours.

Further Details:

• All applicants have the opportunity to audition for up to five (5) summer intensive scholarships, including RDA’s National Choreography Intensive & National Training Program.

• Dancers must first review their scholarship selections with their Artistic Director prior to

• completing the online application with a guardian.

• Schools/companies are not promoted or otherwise endorsed by RDA. Please ask the dancer’s RDA Artistic Director to offer program selection guidance for the dancer’s training and growth.

• Dancers currently in 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, and Alumni may choose to be considered for year-round collegiate and/or professional training program recruitment opportunities.

• A letter of support from the Artistic Director must accompany an application for professional training program recruitment. The application will not be processed without this letter.

• Pay close attention to the requirements, ages, and dates of each scholarship or recruitment opportunity. 

• Dancers from all RDA Regions are eligible for each opportunity.

• It is expected that if an applicant is awarded a scholarship, they will attend that 

RDA Associates are dancers, directors, faculty members, choreographers, family members, and alumni who together comprise the nationwide RDA network. Associates have access to RDA's year-round offerings, news, and connectivity to all that RDA has to offer.

All dancers and chaperones who wish to attend the 2025 festival MUST register themselves as RDA Associates here