2008 Annual Report - Royal South Street Society

left Allira Ludbrook from JeadenCalisthenic College – Winner GracefulSolo 2008.centre Regency Calisthenics College.Photograph courtesy of The Courier.right South Australia’s Fun StarCalisthenics College – first time atSouth Street. Photograph courtesy ofThe Courier.opposite left Anita Coutts School ofDance, Winners U7 Troupe – Showcase2008. Photograph courtesy of The Courier.opposite right Stephen and MichaelLlewellyn – Showcase 2008. Photographcourtesy of The Courier.CalisthenicsThe Calisthenic section commenced onOctober 6th and ran for twenty seven days,concluding on November 1st. This was aday earlier than usual so we would not havelate nights for Sub Juniors and Juniors. Intotal seventy five sessions were held duringCalisthenics.The adjudicators were:~ 1st Period: Mrs Alison Lewis (Vic),Mrs Shirley Pettitt (Vic).~ 2nd Period: Ms Bronwyn Lloyd (Vic),Mrs Gayle Ciotti (Vic).~ Sub Junior Championship, Junior Division 1and Championship panels: Mrs Lisa Ritchie(Vic), Julie Fox (Vic).~ 3rd Period: Mrs Dawn Chester (WA),Mrs Barbara Nickless (Vic), Mrs BarbaraEvans (Vic), Mrs Margaret Bourne (WA),Mrs Brenda Green (Vic).~ 4th Period: Ms Cheryle Ablett (SA),Mrs Brenda Green (Vic), Mrs BarbaraNickless (Vic), Mrs Barbara Evans (Vic).Entries No. of Entries Cancellations No. of CompetitorsTinies 52 1 151Sub-Junior 507 6 876Junior 705 18 1177Intermediate 669 9 1149Senior 537 11 997Solo 27 2 25TOTAL 2497 47 4375Entries were up twenty six on last year, thisincluded Junior and Inters entries increases.There were fewer withdrawals than last year,in total four clubs withdrew, one in Sub-Junior,two in Inters and one in Seniors.There were ninety one Calisthenic Clubsthat attend the competitions this year,seventy two were from Victoria and nineteeninterstate clubs:~ South Australia (eleven),~ New South Wales (one),~ A.C.T. (four),~ Western Australia (one),~ Queensland (two).Last year South Street made a ruling that wewould no longer accept entries from compositeor state teams, this opened up our competitionto a number of new clubs from Adelaide tocompete. This year we received entries fromseven Adelaide clubs. Last year the SouthAustralian state team had 110 competitors,this year we have six new South Australianclubs bringing 259 competitors, which is afantastic outcome. Changing the rules hasenabled more interstate clubs to be eligible toparticipate in South Street.Total booked seat sales for Graceful Girl andSenior Championship sessions this yeartotalled $56,965 an increase of $1,700 on2007. All other Calisthenics box office takingstotalled $133,590. This equates to $190,555generated from audience admission during thetwenty seven days of Calisthenics. The totalrevenue generation from box office admissionsfor the 2008 South Street season totalled$295,191, Calisthenics generates around64.5% of this.Backstage rostered positions for Calisthenicsnumbered 551, this was an average of 7people per session. I am most grateful tothe loyal band of Backstage workers whosupported the Calisthenics section. The newTheatre regulations of numbers Backstageworked well this year, people are getting usedto it. After an SOS call to the volunteers a largenumber of vacancies for the dressing roomchecking position were filled, thanks to thosepeople who put their hands up.8 Committee members filled 103 sessions4 Committee members Partners 51 sessions1 Life member 3 sessions53 Helpers (of these 8 were new) 394 sessions