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Dance Audition Dates
February 28, 2024 8-11th grade, 430-6pm - G106 Dance room
Intermediate Dance
Students should have had one or more years of dance experience in jazz, contemporary, or hip-hop technique. Auditions will consist of a basic skills test, intermediate skills test, and a center combination. Students will be placed based on technical accuracy, style/performance qualities, knowledge, memory, and work ethic.
March 4-6, 2024 8-11th grade, 430-6pm - G106 Dance Room
Advanced DanceAdvanced members should have three or more years of dance experience in jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop. Auditions will consist of a skills test, and a combination taught and performed on the same day. You will be assessed on a double and triple pirouette, leaps, chaines, and pique turns, as well as your knowledge and style of the combination learned.Hamilton Junior CompanyJunior Company Dance members should have three or more years of dance experience in jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop. Auditions will consist of a skills test, two combination (jazz and hip hop) and turns. You will be assessed on a triple pirouette, fouette/a la seconde combinations, and knowledge/style of combinations learned.Hamilton Dance CompanyCompany members should have strongly developed knowledge of jazz, contemporary, hip-hop, and pom. Be available to attend camp in the summer. You should be able to learn and memorize quickly, understand dynamics in movement choice, perform triple or more pirouettes, have strong leaps/jumps, changing spot a la seconde combinations, kip up, head spring, aerial, and extentions/flexability. Auditions will consist of a skills test, learning two combinations, and performing turns and both combinations again on the final call back.Audition packet for Hamilton Dance Company-No packet required for other levels.If you would like to join Hamilton Dance you do not need to audition, just sign up for beginning dance. Dance is open to boys and girls 9th - 12th grade. You can get your PE, Fine Art, and Elective credits fulfilled through dance if you would like to take it all four years.