2024-2025 Gilbert Tap Exam Season!
Hello,
I hope that you have all had a wonderful summer and are ready to get back into the studio for another great season of dance. Welcome to our New Gilbert Affiliates! Congratulations to all studios who held Gilbert exams last season!
Welcome to the 2024-2025 Gilbert Tap Exam Season!
We will once again offer both in person and virtual exams. It is important that we continue to build a solid and consistent standard throughout the Gilbert studios to create the strongest syllabus possible.
Here are this year’s updates for the 2024-25 season:
Renewal and Licensing Fee Due Oct. 15, 2024 (for the 2024-25 Season)
- Please see the attached form for Affiliate Membership due Oct 15
- This fee is no longer added onto the exam fee schedule.
- Licensed studios and or individual teachers using the Gilbert Syllabus may utilize the Gilbert Tap programbenefits.
- The Website will be updated the week of October 15. Any studios with unpaid registration fees will be removed as an affiliate and user at this time. Until then, the web access will remain the same.
- Please note, if you have just joined Gilbert Tap Exams over the summer, your membership is paid for the season.Reminders:
- Payments can be made by e-transfer or studio cheque only.
- If you are doing 2 sessions of exams per season, or only have a very few exams entered, a travel fee may becharged for your exams (to cover travel and hotel costs). If you are willing to work into the exam schedulewhere multiple studios are examining in an area at the same time, this fee is waived.
- Tap 9 now includes a Tap 9 charm for the completion of the syllabus.Attached are 2024-2025 Exam registration form, and the Student/Class entry form.
- There are NO increase in fees this season.
- Please remember that exam costs are not public information. This is information for the teachers only. Most studios set fees to cover extra studio costs (extra classes, extra time etc.)
- Please complete and return all forms before the entry deadline dates provided in the registration forms.
- Forms can be mailed in hard copy as in previous years, along with payment or emailed and e-transferred. Please note the change of address for mail.
- Payments are processed 1 month prior to exams once dates have been agreed upon and confirmed.
- Additional exam candidates submitted between the registration deadline and 14 days prior to your exam date will be subject to a 20% surcharge (plus GST) per exam.
- As soon as we receive your registration, we will contact you to confirm the final dates for your exams.
- Exam scheduling will be on a first come first serve basis. I will try to stick to a similar timeline for exams, however I would like to see cities schedule exams within the same time frame to make travel and lodging feasible in each area. Thank you for working with me last season!TENTATIVE Exam Dates:
- Calgary/Edmonton and Area Session 1: November
- Calgary/Edmonton and Area Session 2: Week of Feb 10-14
- Manitoba: Week of April 28 or May 5
- Calgary/Edmonton and Area Session 3: May 31-June 4
- Lethbridge: June 5,6
- Medicine Hat, Red Deer, Vancouver, and Ontario Affiliates TBDI would ask that we solidify dates as soon as possible.Zoom Meeting: Thursday Sept 26 @ 2:00 pm. A zoom link will be sent out the day prior. Please pass it along to any teachers wanting to attend. I will be prepared, with tap shoes on, and corrections booklet in hand to answer and go over any of the syllabus questions. If you are unable to attend at this time, please do not hesitate to set up an additional time with me.I encourage all NEW teachers to utilize the website videos both in the learning portal (tutorial videos to learn the work) andintheaffiliateportal(examvideos)togoovertheworkthisseason. Ifatthezoommeeting,wedecideaworkshop is needed, we will set up a time and place for a workshop. The website sign in information is listed on the attachment “Affiliate Membership” below. I am also open to a zoom weekend workshop if the demand is there.If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me by phone or email. Thank you for your support of the Gilbert Tap Exam program.I look forward to seeing each one of you during the exam season.
Renewal and Licensing Fee are now Due
Vanessa Cowan
Director
Gilbert Tap Exams
403-330-1171