This week began on Sunday with our last Sunday rehearsal of the year. The production team decided it would be great if we could essentially 'bump-in' Sleeping Beauty on Sunday before the Darwin performance costumes came back into the studios. The Darwin costumes arrived in Alice Springs on Saturday and luckily Gilberts Transport allowed a very early pick-up on Sunday Morning to get them out of the heat. The airing, washing and sunning process begins immediately. The costumes can't be laundered in Darwin because the humidity makes it impossible to get them really dry. Murphy's law - yes we enjoyed the rain but when you need the sun where is it? The humidity came with the costumes but by

We have been kept very busy in the studios here in Alice Springs (Duprada Central) preparing costumes for so many young dancers. 'I Spy' was being laundered and packed away with Morning Melodies and Sleeping Beauty being prepared for October/November performances. In Darwin Leisa's School of Dancing and Duprada Dance Company Darwin are celebrating their 20th Anniversary Performance at the Darwin Entertainment Centre on 7th November,2020. The costumes for that performance were packed and sent in early October and our Principal Dancers flew to Darwin early this week. Tiffanie Hughes, Jorja Purdie, Billy Laherty and Dominic Boffa will assist with the production and perform in 'Suite en Blanc