STIPULATION FOR 2024-2025 SEASON:

Prior to these last several years, RISPA used to ask their Company Members to make a choice between being in RISPA Company OR participating in other activities that required huge time commitments such as school productions, dance teams or cheerleading competitions. We have had several families who have juggled it all and made it work by being transparent with us while being dedicated to RISPA and making us their first priority. We have tried to work with students and their school schedules/activities to help them manage it all and participate in everything. However, despite our efforts, we have found that Company Members seem to take advantage of our leniency and started to miss classes, rehearsals or even shows for reasons unrelated to their previously listed other activities. This behavior has bothered us greatly. We feel that too often RISPA has taken a back seat to other commitments and it has led us to reconsider our policy. That being said, if your student is wanting to participate in a Dance Team, Cheerleading Squad or School Production and in doing so, will have any issues with their RISPA classes, rehearsals, shows or competition, it will force us to ask them to make a choice between the two. Of course, your student can do these other activities, but if ANY conflicts arise with their RISPA commitments, we will expect them to be at RISPA and NOT their other activity. We respectfully ask that you weigh your options and make your decisions as to which activities you wish to commit to BEFORE auditioning. In other words, DO NOT AUDITION if these other activities will cause you to have ANY conflicts with Company commitments. If you sign up for Company and then have to drop as a result of these conflicts, you will still incur the financial responsibility of being in Company.  (Exceptions to these other activities would include school related programs such as band or chorus which earn a school grade, college auditions, and professional paid productions.)