Dance recital flyers
Every family in the room is there for ninety seconds of it, and the flyer has to make sure they are in the right seat at the right show.
Recitals are usually split across two or three performances to fit the families in, and that is where the confusion starts. Which classes are in which show, what time each one is, and whether a family with children in two classes has to attend both. Getting this on the flyer as a clear table saves a studio a fortnight of messages.
Ticket limits are the other flashpoint. Most recitals cap seats per family because demand exceeds the hall, and grandparents travel for these. Printing the limit and when extra tickets are released is far kinder than letting families discover it at purchase, and it heads off the conversation nobody enjoys.
Then the two times that are not the show time: the call time for dancers, which is usually an hour or more before, and the expected run time, which decides whether a four-year-old sibling can be brought. Both belong on the flyer even though both feel like detail for later.
$125
Flat, for one flyer designed for your event. Print-ready PDF tested in black and white, an email version, and square and story sizes. One round of revisions, back in four days.
Where this flyer actually lands
The studio noticeboard and the parent email carry the real information, and the flyer goes home with dancers and out to the wider community for ticket sales. The square version circulates in studio parent groups, where the show-time table needs to still be readable on a phone.
What changes for this one
Show times and classes as a real table, not prose. Ticket limit and release date given their own line. Call time for dancers separated clearly from the audience start time. Elegant rather than sparkly; the audience skews to grandparents and the studio is selling its own standard here.
What it has to carry
- Every performance date and time, with which classes appear in each
- Venue and address
- Ticket price, limit per family, and when extra seats are released
- Dancer call time
- Expected run time and whether there is an interval
- Photography and video policy
The mistakes worth avoiding
- Show times as prose, so families cannot work out which performance they are in.
- Not printing the ticket limit, so families find out at purchase.
- Collapsing the dancer call time and the audience start time into one number.
- No run time, when half the audience is deciding whether to bring a toddler.
- Leaving out the photography policy, which is then announced from the stage to people who have already got their phones out.
Questions people ask
Do you design the programme too?
Yes. The running order programme is day-of event paper and matches the flyer. For a recital it is also the keepsake, since every dancer is named in it.
How far ahead should the flyer go out?
Six to eight weeks, because grandparents travel for these and need to book. Ticket release information can follow separately.
Can you handle three different show times on one sheet?
Yes, as a table. It is the only format families can actually read, and it is what stops the studio answering the same question fifty times.
What about a matching ticket design?
Yes, printable tickets in a sheet layout, numbered if you need to control the seat limit.
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