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Foundation. Stage lights accentuate shadows on your face. Heavy foundation to even your complexion minimizes this.

Blusher. Should be a RED tone, regardless of your complexion. It doesnÌt matter if you normally wear peach, pink, neutral, brown, or whatever. On stage you need red blush. Other colors fade to nothing under the lights. Apply the red blusher liberally. You will look like a clown face to face. Err on the heavy side. It is very difficult to put on too much blusher.

Lipstick. Should be a RED tone, for same reasons as above. Yes, I know. Most of us look totally ridiculous face to face in red lipstick. If your lips are thin or your mouth small, extend the color outside of your real lip line with a red lipliner.

Eyes. Need heavy dark eyeliner, shadow, and mascara to make them look bigger, so they will appear normal size on stage. Make your eyebrows very dark, too. The eyes are the most difficult part of the stage makeup. Practice and experiment. Different eye shapes will require different makeup. If your eyes are small or deepset, line them first with matte white pencil, then black just outside of the white line. Accentuate browbone with matte white. Sweep eye liner and eyeshadow outward and upward to make eyes look bigger.

Powder everything down to keep it in place. The hot stage lights, extra adrenaline, and exertion from your dance will probably cause you to sweat a lot, so make sure your makeup will survive.

Don't stop applying Make-Up at your jawline. At the very least, brush powder down neck and chest, and over other areas of bare skin, so your body reflects light the same way as your face. You can also add glitter.

Body: If you are very pale, brush bronzer lightly over your body to cut the glare.
You can use bronzer to redefine the lines of your body the same way the makeup redefines your facial features. For example, you can apply bronzer in the hollow of your neck and along your collar bone to redefine this bone structure. You can use bronzer to define muscular structure also: around the base of your deltoid cut so the shape and tone of your arms shows on stage; down either side of your belly to define the curve of the transverse abdominal muscles that would show up close.
Real professional stage makeup is expensive, but for your purposes as a student dancer you can put together a reasonable kit using "Wet-n-Wild" or other inexpensive makeup.