Competition Team Summer Intensive Week #1
Monday July 21 - Friday July 25
Mini Intensives: 3-6pm Junior, Teen and Senior Teen Intensives: 3-7:30pm
Auditions: Saturday July 26 TIME TBD - will announce during camp
(Mini dancers will audition during their last class on Friday, they do not need to return Saturday)
Required for any dancer who wishes to audition for one of our competition teams!
Competition Team Summer Intensive Week #2
Monday August 18 - Friday August 22
Required for those who make the team! Times for Camp and Pricing TBA.
More information regarding auditions is available in our team handbook, please email us for a copy.
Registration is available online. Please do not register your dancer in the next age bracket (example: junior to teen) without discussing it with Miss Kayla first.
Audition Requirements:
Skill Requirements: Dancers auditioning on competition teams will have a set list of expected skills that they will need to execute at auditions. Skills should be clean and consistent with accurate technique. Please note there are no skill requirements for the Mini Team.
Junior Team (preferred but not required)
Leaps/Turns/Etc: Clean single pirouette - jazz preparation. Double pirouette - jazz preparation (in progress.) Battements front, back and side. Saut de chat leap, surprise leap. Basic understanding of jazz footwork (triplets, pas de bourree, etc)
Acro: Handstand (on preferred side,) cartwheel (on preferred side,) bridge (not to standing,) appropriate/beginner understanding and demonstration of back flexibility, core strength, hurdle and clean landings.
Teen Team (Required)
All required Junior skills.
Leaps/Turns/Etc: Clean double pirouette - jazz preparation. Battements front, back, side and tilt. Saut de chat leap, surprise leap, center leap, calypso, tilit jump, axel jump, saute firebird (no arch.) Intermediate understanding of jazz footwork (triplets, pas de bourree, etc)
Acro: Handstands on right and left, cartwheel and running cartwheel (on preferred side,) bridge (not to standing,) appropriate/intermediate understanding and demonstration of back flexibility, core strength, hurdle and clean landings.
Senior Teen Team (Required)
All required Junior and Teen skills.
Leaps/Turns/Etc: Triple pirouette - jazz preparation. Double piroette, ballet preparation. Three a la seconde turns in to chaine turns or a double pirouette (preferred side should be clean.) Battements, developpes and heel stretches front, back, side and tilt. Saut de chat leap, variations of surprise leap, center leap, calypso, tilit jump, axel jump, saute firebird (with arch,) variations of switch leaps, Baryshnikov. Advanced understanding of jazz footwork (triplets, pas de bourree, etc)
Acro: Handstands on right and left, cartwheel (running, pick up and pop) on right and left, bridge (to standing,) pelvic lift, appropriate/advanced understanding and demonstration of back flexibility, core strength, hurdle and clean landings.