PREVIOUS engagements of School Year 2009 are listed below HERE.
2009-2010 School-Year (July 2009 - July 2010)
August 28, 2009 - Friday - Dwight Township High School and Dwight Junior High School in Dwight, Illinois – morning and afternoon performances
September 8, 2009 - Tuesday - Henry-Senachwine High School in Henry, Illinois – afternoon performance for grades 6-10
September 17, 2009 - Thursday - morning performance at Matthews Middle School in Lake Island, Illinois, and afternoon performance at Wauconda Middle School in Wauconda, Illinois.
September 28, 2009 - Monday - morning performance at Chadwick School in Chadwick in northwestern Illinois for grades 4-8 and for students from nearby Milledgeville High School.
October 12, 2009 - Monday (Columbus Day school holiday for most troupe members) – Albia (Iowa) High School – 90-minute performance at 1:30 p.m. – some 1,000 students in grades 7- 12 from three communities – Albia, Moravia, and Moulton-Udell.
October 26, 2009 - Monday – afternoon performance at Von Steuben Middle School, located at 801 East Forrest Hill Avenue in Peoria, Illinois, sponsored by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Peoria
November 9, 2009 - Monday – morning and afternoon performances at Sterling High School in Sterling, Illinois – students from both Sterling High School and Newman High School – sponsored by the Whiteside County Health Department
November 23, 2009 – Monday 9:30-11:00 a.m. morning performance – Somonauk Middle School, located at 510 West LaSalle Street in Somonauk, Illinois, west of Plano and Sandwich.
December 7, 2009 – Monday – Performance at 1:00 p.m. at Rock Falls High School in Rock Falls, Illinois, sponsored by a community task force led by the Whiteside County Health Department.
December 18, 2009 afternoon performance – Friday – 1:15 p.m. – Rochelle Middle School, located at 111 East School Avenue in Rochelle, Illinois.
January 19, 2010 – Tuesday – 9:25 a.m. – Carmel Catholic High School, located at One Carmel Parkway in Mundelein, a northwest suburb morning performance.
February 1, 2010 – Monday – 9:00-10:30 a.m. – Prairie Central Junior High School, located at 900 North Wood Street in Forrest, Illinois, off U.S. Route 24 east of I-55 and east of Chenoa and southeast of Pontiac morning performance.
February 8, 2010 – Monday – Dwight Township High School in Dwight, Illinois.
Performance for Dwight Junior High School students and possibly some
students from the high school depending on availability of seating in the
school auditorium. Performance time 1:00-2:45 p.m.
This performance
re-scheduled from January 8, 2010, because of inclement weather.
March 12, 2010 – Friday – Erie High School in Erie, Illinois – 12:30 p.m. performance for grades 6-12.
March 25, 2010 – Thursday – morning performance to open a Teen Showcase at Illinois Valley Community College, located at 815 North Orlando Smith Avenue in Oglesby, Illinois, sponsored by the North Central Behavioral Health Systems, based in LaSalle, Illinois.
April 16, 2010 – Friday – 9:00 a.m. performance – Churchville Middle School, in Elmhurst, Illinois - all school assembly for grades 6-8.
April 29, 2010 – Thursday – evening performance in Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center in downtown Chicago as part of the 75th Anniversary Dinner and Program celebrating the founding of the Chicago Area Project.
May 10, 2010 – Monday – Galena Middle School as host school in Galena, Illinois – seventh and eighth grade students from six schools in Jo Daviess County – performance at 9:15 a.m. for Warren Middle School, Stockton Middle School, and East Dubuque Elementary School and 12:15 p.m. for River Ridge Middle School, Scales Mound School, and Galena Middle School – re-scheduled from February 22, 2010, because of inclement weather threat.
May 24, 2010 – Monday – Yorkville Middle School in Yorkville, Illinois – morning performance as part of the school’s Academic Olympics activities.