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     HDC 2023-2024

    Dance Audition Dates

     

    Tryouts for Intermediate will be February 28, 2024 from 430-6pm for 8-11th grade students.

     

    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.

    Advanced Dance
     
    Advanced members should have three or more years of dance experience in jazz, contemporary, or ballet. Auditions will consist of a skills test, and a combination taught and performed on the same day. You will be assessed on pirouettes, jumps, as well as your knowledge and style of the combination learned. 
     
    Tryouts for Hamilton Dance Company, Junior Company, Advanced will be March 4-6, 2024 in the Dance Room from 430-6pm. 
     
    Hamilton Junior Company
     
    Junior Company Dance members should have five or more years of dance experience in jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop. Auditions will consist of a skills test, two combinations (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. A limited number of auditionors could result in students being placed in either Hamilton Dance Company or Advanced.
     
     
    Hamilton Dance Company
     
    Team/Company members should have strongly developed knowledge of jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop. You should be able to learn and memorize quickly, understand dynamics in movement choice, perform triple or more pirouettes, have strong leaps/jumps, advanced a la seconde combinations, kip up, head spring, aerial, and extentions/flexability. Auditions will consist of a skills test, learning two combinations, and performing a solo of your original choreography on the last day of tryouts. The solo should be no more than 1:30 in length and showcase your choreography and all of your skills/tricks as a dancer. The company competes locally and nationally and goes to camp each summer. 
     
    Audition packet for Hamilton Dance Company
     
     
    If you have a conflict with the audition times listed, please email Mr. D at milbauer.daniel@cusd80.com.

    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 in 9th - 12th grade. You can get your PE, Fine Arts, and Elective credits fulfilled through dance if you would like to take it all four years.

    Tryout Results

     

    Beginning 24-25

    376573

    Intermediate 24-25

    408552

    355423

    347069

    410073

    408100

    306500

    360501

    398870

    425729

    419277

    399672

    417029

    378107

    395072

    352723

    426067

    402611

    415573

    430251

    406765

    429851

    393306

    344842

    172200

    182429

    357514

    390391

    172312

    427409

     

    Advanced 24-25

     

    344454

    414203

    346114

    344288

    421591

    428995

    355423

    411006

    182429

    413408

    413408

    172575

    417561

    352721

     

    Junior Company 24-25

     

    361668

    344462

    353525

    377693

    365035

    181582

    No ID# Initials IO

    361668

    360559

    359331

    168410

     

    Hamilton Dance Company 24-25

     

    365251

    402283

    346675

    373247

    345671

    426769

    179827

    344378

    354993

    397884

    181002