Honor America Days Parade 2024

We're so excited to be participating for the very first time in Rome's honored patriotic tradition, the Honor America Days parade! We'll be walking as a studio on Saturday, September 7th at 10 am, with our dancers of all ages and their families invited to join us. 

WHAT TO WEAR:

We've designed tee shirts to wear as a group - each dancer must order and wear this tee shirt, and any family members walking with us may also order one if they'd like or wear anything red, white and blue to go with the Chamber's theme of "Celebrating our Heritage". Tee shirts are available in youth sizes XS, S, M, L and XL, and adult sizes S, M, L, XL, XXL and XXXL, at $18 each. Orders must be placed by Tuesday the 16th.

Comfortable sneakers and socks are recommended for all but required for dancers. We know dancers will likely want to accessorize themselves, so please feel free to go all out with patriotic hair ties, jewelry, etc.!

WHAT TO BRING:

We recommend water bottles and easy snacks for your family, and a stroller or wagon if you've got little ones (these can be decorated for the parade!) You may want a wristlet, backpack, etc. to bring anything desired with you, or a rolling cooler for extra drinks.

DROP-OFF:

As we have limited chaperones for this event, we are asking any child Level 3 and under be accompanied by an adult. If several students want to go together and be chaperoned by one parent that is totally fine with us, but the only students able to be dropped off and picked up entirely with no designated parent chaperone walking with them would be our Level 4 age group.

At this time we do not have our exact location in the parade order from the Rome Chamber, but we do know that parade begins on North James Street and will continue on to West Dominick by its end. As soon as we have our parade spot we will pass that along with dropoff/pickup details and where to meet. Unfortunately I've heard from a few people that this could be distributed as late as just a few days before the event - but we'll keep you updated!

PERFORMANCE:

We get to showcase a 30 second performance at the parade's stopping point in front of the reviewing tent! Participation is open to all PERFORMANCE TRACK students that were in Level 1-4 last dance year (those enrolled in ballet for Level 1 and ballet/at least one other style for Levels 2-4). 

We will only have a few practices, and our first rehearsal will be Thursday the 18th from 5:45-6:30 pm, with another on Sunday the 21st from 3-4 pm. We will then decide how many more we need before the parade on the 27th, but plan on at least one more that week on Thursday the 25th again from 5:45-6:30 pm. Please designate if your dancer will be joining us for the performance on your sign-up form.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out at 315-335-0938 or by email to info@cnyacademyofdance.com!