Performance Team Audition Information
2024 2025 Team Auditions - Saturday MAY 18, 2024!
10:00 to 11:30 for Ages 4 to 5
12:00 to 1:30 for Ages 6 to 9
2:00 - 3:30 for Ages 10 & up
The NASD Performance Team is a group of apx 25 to 30 dancers age 4 to 18. All team members are bound by a 12 month contract June 2024 to May 2025. Team members travel to compete at 3 to 4 competitions out of town in addition to performing in 3 or 4 local community events, parades & local shows.
2024 - 2025 info that has all pricing, commitments and contract will be released during the first portion of each audition. Parents are required to read through entire contract and sign along with your dancer and turn back in with fees upon accepting dancers placement during auditions, if chosen for the season. If you are debating or have questions about joining the team we encourage you to go through the audition process to receive all dates and information. We are available for any additional questions after auditions.
Current 2023-2024 Members:
Current Team members are required to audition for the new season.
$50 Registration Fee credited to accounts for all returning team members. Preregistering for classes: Future 2024-2025 team members will be required to take a ballet or modern and a hip hop class weekly. We can give specific recommendations and make adjustments to any schedule following auditions regardless of if you have preregistered or not.
Attire:
BLACK leotard & leggings. Loose or baggy clothing will not be allowed. Girls must wear hair up in a bun, secured tightly to the head and out of face. Short hair pulled back out of face and secured to head as best as possible.
Things I MUST Bring:
*Bring snacks, water & all dance shoes.
*You must bring an 8 x 10 Headshot.
On the back please write: Name, age, birth date, address, years you have danced & Parent/Guardian contact information with an email address.
*A parent/guardian must be with you. Prior to the Audition, contracts with mandatory dates, pricing and requirements will be issued.
Results:
Results and placement will be posted and emailed out by the end of the weekend to the email provided in auditions. Results and placement decisions are final. Prior to auditions, we have in place choreographers, set dances and a limited amount of spots for the upcoming season. Once results is emailed out, deadline to accept and turn in with payment and signed contract is May 31st.
Qualifications & Eligibility:
Judges have the right to consider students behavior, work ethic, past classroom experience, and any other information we feel is necessary to have the most successful team possible for the Year.
You will be judged on the above posted rules and showing up prepared, on time and with correct attire.
Late students will not be allowed to enter once auditions have begun.
Anyone with an outstanding balance from a past season will not be allowed to audition.
Current team members will be judged on performance and professionalism at recital.
Parents/family play a huge roll in the success of our team and will be considered in conversation along with students ability and placement.
Physicality requirements: Ballet and modern training, overall flexibility, splits on the right & left, heal stretches and balance, turning ability, teachable and trainable mindset in classroom, capable of remembering well & stage presences will all be considered.
A positive and happy attitude, humble spirit with a team first mentality is a must.
Additional Audition Information:
Upon arriving you will need to sign in at the front counter. A number will be issued to you and you must wear this # the entire time.
Please make sure you have arrived a few minutes early to use the restroom and prepare.
If you leave the audition you will not be allowed back in until the audition has ended.
Once the audition begins, anyone running late will not be allowed into the classroom.
Parents are not allowed into the classroom for auditions.
Once the audition begins, we review a list of requirements for the season and explained what they will be judged on. Judges will go through a series of combinations, stretches, across the floor steps and or combinations.
If this is new to you, please do the best you can and treat it as if you are in a class, smile and have fun. If you do not have dance shoes, please dance barefoot. We understand if you do not have all sets of shoes and do not recommend purchasing things just for this one time audition.
*A parent/guardian must be present for this process. Before starting the audition, contracts with mandatory dates, pricing and requirements will be issued and reviewed.
Deadline: Once results and schedule has been posted, Parents have till May 31 at 9:00 pm to turn in contract with payment. Anyone we do not hear from we will assume you have declined.
**Judges may ask your child to stay for the next audition so come prepared to stay longer if this happens.
Team season starts June 2024 and will end May of 2024. Depending on placement results, team members must be available for mandatory scheduling during the dates of July 18 to July 21, 2024. Day & evening times will be scheduled. The exact schedule for these dates will be based on audition results and posted along with audition results.
Weekly practices and times will be posted with results. Upon turning in contract, please submit all summer vacation dates at this time for us to schedule around excluding the dates of July 18 to July 21.
If you are unable to make this above audition date, we will accept digital auditions. Digital auditions must be emailed in to our office for review prior to April 30th for consideration. Digital auditions will need to include complete contact information for dancer and parent. Birth date, years dancing and description of past dance history. 8 x 10 headshot, solo of at least 30 seconds or longer and reason for not being able to participate in person. Digital auditions are to be sent to: TheNorthAugustaSchoolofDance@gmail.com
