All-East Dress Rules and Dress Code

Rules

• Attendance shall be required at all rehearsals for the full rehearsal time with no tardies allowed.
  • The only exception to this rule is football players whose teams are playing in the playoffs may ask the Executive Board to approve their missing all or part of the Friday afternoon rehearsal only to allow them to play in the game. The Executive Board may grant or refuse the request based on the distance to and time of the game in question and the position the student plays on the team.
• Students should be in their seats for roll call ten minutes prior to the stated time of rehearsal.
• Students should have their own copies of all the assigned music for their choir with all measures numbered.
• Students should have a pencil in rehearsal.
• Students must power off all cell phones, pagers, and other electronic devices at the beginning of each rehearsal or performance and the devices must remain in powered off through the entire rehearsal or performance.
  • Devices may be powered on during announced breaks in rehearsal but must be turned back off at end of the break.
  • If a student is anticipating an emergency situation for which they must be contacted quickly, they should leave their phone/pager with the chorus chair who will take any messages.
  • If a student is seen with a powered-on device in rehearsal or performance they may be sent home.

Students guilty of rule infractions will meet with the discipline committee who may give warnings, penalties or send a student home as deemed necessary.

Dress Code

• Chorus Women: ankle length black dress with a sleeve, or an ankle length black skirt with a black top of similar or complementary fabric, black shoes no more than 2 inches in height, optional modest jewelry such as a single strand of pearls or a drop-pearl or single stone on a delicate chain. No long dangling earrings or heavy choke necklaces.
• Chorus Men: White tux shirt or white long-sleeve button-down shirt with black bow tie, black tux pants or black dress slacks, black dress shoes and black socks. No jackets, and no tennis shoes.