Audition Videos

Combination from Part 3: February 6th

with Professor Jess Humphrey, and SDSU Dance Program Alumna, Sofia Zepeda Leo

Instructions ("Recipe") for your Part 3 Video Submission

1. Practice each of the dances (ingredients) you've learned so far:

   • Joseph's combination from Part 1

   • Tommy and Leslie's combination from Part 2 (which includes the improvisation from Leslie and the set material from Tommy)

   • The "word" dance you made in class with Jess and the "shaking/dance party" improvisation from the beginning of that class

2. Create a new dance from the "ingredients" listed above that is between 1.5 and 2 minutes long

• You can arrange the "ingredients" in any way you choose. For example, you might do a few seconds of Tommy's set material, right into the end of Joseph's combination, the first half (2 or 3 words) from the "word" dance from Jess's class, into the "circular and linear" improvisation from Leslie, right back into Tommy's set material, and then back into Joseph's, and so on...

• You don't need to include all of each "ingredient" but you must include a little something from each.

3. "Bake" your dance

• Practice it until it doesn't feel like a bunch of "ingredients" anymore, but a dance that you can really enjoy.

• Dance it until the transitions between the "ingredients" are as important and as clear as the ingredients themselves.

• Add the music to your practice (the link is in the email).

4. When you're ready, "serve it up"...take a video recording of your dance!

1. • Use the soundtrack provided in the email to practice and when you record your video.

   • You can also choose the direction you are orienting to as the "front" or audience.

   • Choose a location where you can be seen fully.

   • If you use a light source, make sure it’s coming from your camera rather than from behind you.
     

5. Upload your video to your Interfolio application by Monday, February 15th!

Combination from Part 2: January 30th

with Professors Leslie Seiters & Tommy Chu, and SDSU Dance Program Sophomore, Claire Ciserella

Instructions for your Part 2 Video Submission

1. Here is a written description of the song and movement structure to refresh your memory:

1. • + Four (8) counts INTRO section
     [Two (8) counts of bounce & groove + Two (8) counts to walk the cypher/circle/space/room]

   • + Four (8) counts Tommy section
     [Starts on the 5, 6, 7 & 8 - underlined 7 & 8 are the DJ scratches to start- video of this choreography included above]

   • + Four (8) counts Leslie section
     [Starts when the beat fades out-after Mac Dre/Thizzle face-this choreography is your practice and feeling of circular, linear, and pause]

   • + Four (8) counts of COMBINING these two
     [Video yourself in this attempt, just like in class...is it even possible? What happens when you try?]

2. Record a video of yourself in the structure/choreography described above.

   • Use the soundtrack provided in the email to practice and when you record your video.

   • You can choose to wear shoes or no shoes.

   • You can also choose the direction you are orienting to as the "front" or audience.

   • Choose a location where you can be seen fully.

   • If you use a light source, make sure it’s coming from your camera rather than from behind you.
     

3. Upload your video to your Interfolio application before Part 3 of the audition on Saturday, February 6th!

Combination from Part 1: January 23rd

with Professor Joseph Alter and SDSU Dance Program Senior, Arianna Cruz

Instructions for your Part 1 Video Submission

1. Practice the combination and figure out the second side.

   • Notice how the process of figuring out the second side can help deepen your understanding of the first side.

   • Watch both Joseph and Arianna. What do you learn from watching the combination in two different bodies?

   • Pay attention to the facings, including the diagonals Joseph mentioned while teaching it.

   • Enlist the help of someone in your dance world to watch you dance it and tell you what they notice in relation to Joseph’s and Arianna’s versions.
     

2. Record yourself doing the first side right into the second side.

   • Be sure to record it in landscape mode.

   • Choose a location where you can be seen fully.

   • If you use a light source, make sure it’s coming from your camera rather than from behind you.

   • Choose music without lyrics. If you would like to use the music Joseph was using, it is attached to the email.
     

3. Upload your video to your Interfolio application before Part 2 of the audition on Saturday, January 30th!