volunteer information
an immense thank you
goes out to our volunteers
for the 2024 performance.
Interested in volunteering for our 2025 May Performance? We would love to have you! Please read below for job descriptions and fill out our Volunteer Interest Form.
JOB DESCRIPTIONS
DRESSING ROOMS
Volunteers help in a variety of ways, depending on who and where they are helping. For our littlest dancers, their dressing room volunteers keep them entertained and quiet when not performing, assist with hair and costumes, and escort them to and from the dressing rooms and backstage area. Dressing rooms volunteers for older students have similar duties. They may be asked to assist with hair, checking to make sure students have removed jewelry, helping with costumes questions and quick changes, rounding up dancers to line up backstage, and -very importantly - helping to maintain quiet and order in the dressing rooms.
Job considerations - Volunteers must be comfortable working with children, helping dancers change, and rolling with the flow of a lot of controlled chaos.
Job considerations - Volunteers must be comfortable working with children, helping dancers change, and rolling with the flow of a lot of controlled chaos.
HEADSET
Volunteers are stationed upstairs in the central dressing room area, downstairs by the stage stairs, and backstage on stage right. Upstairs and Downstairs, they listen to the Stage Manager (Isadora), lighting designer, and sound designer over headsets. They keep track of what dance is currently onstage, respond to questions, line up dancers to send them backstage. On stage right, volunteers assist dancers entering or exiting from stage right as needed, help with props, or respond to a request from the Stage Manager.
Job considerations - The headset operators must stay on headset for the duration of the show and are not able to leave their post.
Job considerations - The headset operators must stay on headset for the duration of the show and are not able to leave their post.
BALCONY MONITORS
Monitors sit with performers in the audience before or after they perform. They escort dancers from the Balcony or Orchestra Pit to the stage at Intermission or vice versa. They help maintain quiet and order while dancers are members of the audience and while they are transitioning spaces.
NOTE: Volunteers who work one half in the Dressing Rooms should consider being Chaperones in the Balcony for the other half. If Volunteering for one half only, seating is not guaranteed for the other half. If you sign up to Volunteer for a First Half and plan to leave for the Second Half, please let us know.
Job considerations - This is the only volunteer job that allows you to see the show for free.
NOTE: Volunteers who work one half in the Dressing Rooms should consider being Chaperones in the Balcony for the other half. If Volunteering for one half only, seating is not guaranteed for the other half. If you sign up to Volunteer for a First Half and plan to leave for the Second Half, please let us know.
Job considerations - This is the only volunteer job that allows you to see the show for free.
TRAINING
We want to make sure that you feel confident in your job. All volunteers will receive a video orientation to familiarize themselves with the Barre Opera House. Any additional trainings will take place during Tech Week.