COVID POLICY
The entire world has faced this pandemic on many levels and everyone’s experiences greatly differ from the hopeful to the heartbroken. Vancouver Dance Theatre's goal is to keep our dancers, their families, our volunteers, patrons, and our community as a whole, safe and healthy any way we can. We here at VDT will use the newest information from the CDC, Washington State leadership, community hospitals, and local public schools in forming our covid policy. We will not necessarily follow individual dance studio rules. We understand and respect all aspects and views knowing they vary greatly even within our own community.
Following Covid and other seasonal illnesses, only currently scheduled dancers, volunteers, and Board members may be in the lobby of the studio. Parents, siblings, or dancers who are not scheduled for a rehearsal or costume fitting will not be permitted in the studio. A volunteer will be in the studio to help the littles and families are invited to watch through the large outdoor window. During auditions, a single family member will be allowed into a designated part of the studio to make payments under the direction of a Board member. We would still like to limit food consumption inside the studio and encourage dancers to step outside to eat. All dancers may have water inside the studio.
As we have all been dealing with Covid for well over a year, we are also all well aware of the signs and symptoms of Covid-19. If a dancer, family volunteer, or someone within the same household is diagnosed positive with Covid, regardless of their vaccination status, VDT asks for all household members to stay home and not come to the rehearsal studio. VDT will be providing recorded rehearsals or something similar to dancers who are unable to attend rehearsals related to Covid-19 so they don’t fall behind. Please follow Vancouver Public Schools and Washington state guidelines for exposures, quarantine periods, testing, and returning to normal activities. Please contact VDT immediately upon exposure or suspected infection with Covid-19 so accommodations and a plan can be made. A positive Covid test absence will not count against a dancer if proper communication is made with VDT. We want to encourage those who are exposed, suspected to have, or do have Covid to stay home and not expose those at the rehearsal studio.
VDT does not have control over public school mandates including Vancouver Public Schools or any other public school district (including Fort Vancouver High School). Patrons of our performance as well as the entire VDT community MUST comply with the VPS or venue regulations during show week. VDT will provide dancers' families updated information in regards to the performance regulations as we get closer to show week. If your family is unable to comply with this policy, please consider returning to VDT another year. VDT will NOT tolerate threats, debates, or volatile comments in regards to our covid policy. VDT is trying to do all we can to ensure we are able to have a 2022 Nutcracker season and ask our members to join us in our effort!