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     HDC 2023-2024

    Dance Audition Dates

     

    Tryouts for Intermediate will be March 3, 2025 from 430-530pm 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, 2025 in the Dance Room from 430-6pm, (March 5th will go until 7pm)
     
    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 25-26

     

    Intermediate 25-26

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    418118

    385099

    434866

    362795

    360692

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    382025

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    172200

    425729

    419277

    347069

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    435580

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    438742

    440797

    395072

    384248

    352643

    358161

    356938

     

    JCo/Advanced 25-26

     

    344454

    434719

    355526

    417561

    344842

    172575

    414203

    413408

    344288

    368849

    361668

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    346114

    360559

    432680

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    365035

    437294

    430572

    360501

    360500

    437037

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    379639

    344462

    179606

     

    Hamilton Dance Company 25-26

     

    359331

    426769

    346675

    420604

    354993

    368717

    397884

    398907

    438739

    422504

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