All required elements are found below. Record yourself at home and send it to us!
You will NOT be admitted if you don't follow dress code. Dance shoes are required for all students
Female Students MUST wear one of the following:
Leotard with optional spandex shorts
Half top with spandex shorts
Tight fitting Athletic tank top with spandex shorts
Spandex shorts are preferred, but leggings may be worn as a replacement
No T-shirts, tank tops, dresses, other other "street clothes"
Hair must be pulled back into a bun or low ponytail with no flyaways
Male students MUST wear
fitting style t-shirt with athletic shorts
Everyone must do the following Technique demonstration, do this at your own pace in one video. Even though some steps may feel like just ballet or just jazz, we want ALL students to do all these movements.
Using a wall or chair as a barre, do 2 demi plies and 2 grand plies in 1st and 2nd position (side view of your body - you pick left or right side)
Using a wall or chair as a barre do 2 tendu front, side and back follow by 1 battement front, side, back (side view of your body - you pick left or right side.)
Pirouettes right and left. Single, double or triple. If you have mastered a single and are working on your double show us both, for example.
2 Chainee turns, 2 pique turns; the second pique can be a double if you'd like
Coming towards the camera, battement (kicks) front front side back. Also known as Around the World
Chasse step leap (Brush Leap/Grand Jete) on right and left
Everyone must also do the following stretch series
Stand feet together, bend down and touch your toes
Right and left splits
Straddle
If you are planning to take Jazz or Contemporary
Prepare the jazz combination
If you are planning to take Ballet
Prepare the ballet combination
If you are planning to take Tap, do the following steps at your own pace. If you can do them fast, start slow then work up to a fast tempo.
Do all the following steps that you know - skip the ones you have not learned yet.
Flap heel or flap heel heel x4
Rolling shuffles x8
1 Buffalo and 2 Maxie Fords
Either drawbacks or Cincinnatis
Any variety of wings if you can do them.
Triple time step left and right
If you are planning to take Hip Hop
you will be tested using the jazz combination
If you are only doing hip hop, you are welcome to give the dance a hip hop flair by taking out some of the technical movements and replacing them with hip hop motions.