NC State Dance Team 2019 Summer Clinic and Packapalooza Performance
August 24, 2019
10am-3:30pm
Carmichael Gym Courts 9&10- NC State University, Raleigh NC
Performance on Hillsborough Street during Packapalooza Event
Ages 5 & up
Spend a day with the NC State Dance Team learning choreography and preparing for a performance on Hillsborough Street during the annual Packapalooza Event! https://packapalooza.ncsu.edu/
Price: $50 Due on the day of the event (cash or check) and includes performance t-shirt
Register at the link below!
10am-3:30pm
Carmichael Gym Courts 9&10- NC State University, Raleigh NC
Performance on Hillsborough Street during Packapalooza Event
Ages 5 & up
Spend a day with the NC State Dance Team learning choreography and preparing for a performance on Hillsborough Street during the annual Packapalooza Event! https://packapalooza.ncsu.edu/
Price: $50 Due on the day of the event (cash or check) and includes performance t-shirt
Register at the link below!
NC State Dance Team 2019 Fall Auditions
August 27, 2019
6-8pm Carmichael Gym Court 6- NC State University, Raleigh, NC
GENERAL AUDITION INFORMATION
JUDGING PROCESS AND CRITERIA
Please complete the below registration form to secure your spot for the 2019 Fall Audition. If you have any questions, please email Head Coach Amanda Roediger at aaroedig@ncsu.edu.
6-8pm Carmichael Gym Court 6- NC State University, Raleigh, NC
GENERAL AUDITION INFORMATION
- All candidates must be full time students at NC State University for the 2019-2020 academic year. You will need to show proof of acceptance by providing your Student ID number on the day of tryouts.
- All candidates must fill out the Audition Registration Form at the link below.
- All candidates must be able to comply with the rules and responsibilities of being a member of the NC State Dance Team. These are outlined in the registration form.
- All auditions are closed to family and other spectators.
- Audition attire for the audition process consists of BLACK cropped dance top or sports bra with BLACK bottoms (pants, leggings, or shorts). Dance shoes must be worn at all times. Hair and make-up should reflect how you would look at a performance.
JUDGING PROCESS AND CRITERIA
- The NC State Dance Team coaching staff will be looking for well rounded dancers with outstanding technical skills, stage presence, and demonstrated proficiency in all three collegiate styles of dance (Pom, Jazz and Hip Hop). Please do not assume however, that a weakness in one area will disqualify you as a Dance Team member. The coaches are looking for dancers who are eager to learn and improve and will display a positive attitude at all times.
- Candidates will be judged on their technique, adaptation to our style, physical fitness, and memorization and should be able to perform the following skills:
- Jazz/Technique
- Short Jazz Dance (taught during the tryout)
- Triple and Quad Pirouettes
- Fouette turns/Elite combinations (at least 2 eight counts)
- Leaps in second (left and right)
- Switch Opens
- Chaine’ Open Leaps, calypsos, specialty jumps
- Leap/Turn Combinations
- Flexibility demos- Leg Hold Turns, Extension holds
- Hip Hop
- Short Hip Hop dance (taught during the tryout)
- Floor tricks (kip ups/headsprings/rubber band)
- Pom
- Gameday material (taught during the tryout)
- Knowledge of cheer motions and motion placement
- Toe Touch and double toe touch
- Other
- Optional Skills- aerials, airborne tricks, other tumbling
Please complete the below registration form to secure your spot for the 2019 Fall Audition. If you have any questions, please email Head Coach Amanda Roediger at aaroedig@ncsu.edu.