AUDITION COMPONENTS

Audition Attire
Students should be dressed in appropriate audition attire. Ballet slippers are required for the ballet component. If you have had at least three years of pointe at an advanced level and feel comfortable wearing pointe shoes for the entire ballet portion of the audition, you are encouraged to do so. Students must remove shoes for the modern component. No warm-ups or sweats are permitted. It is suggested students wear convertible tights.

Teachers please note carefully:
In determining which of your students will take part in the Scholarship Auditions, make sure that each one is capable of executing the following criteria at an advanced level:

Ballet Criteria

• Adagio including attitudes, fondu, arabesques, tours, développés, promenade tours and balancés in poses
• Grand battement with multiple pirouettes
• Petit Allegro with batterie
• Grand allegro

Modern Criteria

• Spine work: Contractions, spinal succession, tilts
• Floor work- rolling to, from and on the floor
• Tilts, spirals, recovery, fall and rebound
• Combination with big directional changes, turns, small jumps and fall
• Structured improvisation exercise

What to expect for the Auditions

Mandatory Warm-Up Class Format
During the mandatory warm-up class, students will be given warm-up exercises, then will learn a ballet combination and a modern/contemporary combination. These combinations will be performed during the Preliminary Auditions.

By-Invitation-Only Call-backs
The afternoon classes will have a more traditional class structure.

Ballet Components (There will be NO BARRE component to the auditions)
The combination will include the following and will be the same for all auditioning:

• Adagio – includes extensions moving in and through body positions, port de bras and épaulement.
• Multiple tours and balances on relevé.
• Petite Allegro including batterie
• Grand Allegro

Modern Components
The combination will include the following and will be the same for all auditioning:

• Spine and/or floor work combination that may include spinal successions, tilts, contractions, rolling to, from and on the floor
• Across the floor combination that may include big directional changes, turns, jumps and falls.