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AUDITION PROCESS
Auditions have closed for the 2023-2024 season. Please check back in late February/early March for details on our spring auditions for the 2024-2025 season!
REGISTRATION:
All dancers interested in auditioning, must complete and return the following prior to auditions:
- Audition Registration Form
- Current Loyola Students: Unofficial Transcript showing Fall 2023 semester grades/GPA and Cumulative GPA OR enrollment verification if you are a first-semester freshman
- Review our Time Commitment and Team Schedule information found below.
ANYONE NOT COMPLETING REGISTRATION INCLUDING UPLOADING ALL APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS BY THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE TO TRYOUT FOR THE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND DANCE TEAM.
IN-PERSON AUDITIONS:
Our in-person auditions consist of the following components:
The Loyola Dance Team coaches are looking for dancers who are highly technical in their dance skills and display high levels of energy and performance quality in their dancing. The following Technical Skills should be mastered prior to attending auditions:
- Technique
- Choreography (2 sidelines and 1 hip hop combo)
- Solos (up to 1 minute)
- Interviews (depending on number of dancers auditioning and timing)
The Loyola Dance Team coaches are looking for dancers who are highly technical in their dance skills and display high levels of energy and performance quality in their dancing. The following Technical Skills should be mastered prior to attending auditions:
- Kicks (front, side, and arabesque)
- Grand Jete
- Leap in Second
- Calypsos
- Disc Jump
- Triple Pirouettes
- A la seconde turns on the right (at least 3 into a double pirouette; prefer advanced combos that include spot changing, floats, or technical entrances/exits)
- Toe Touch; double toe touches encouraged
- Switch Tilt/Arabesque/Leap
- Ninjas or Turning Coupe Leaps
- Headsprings/Kip ups/Rubberbands
- Aerials (front and side) & standing tumbling
- Extensions (leg holds, leg turns, scorpions, etc.)
SOLOS:
Prospective dance team members will be required to prepare a solo of up to 1 minute and no less than 30 seconds prior to attending auditions. Please keep the following in mind when preparing your solo:
- Choose a style that best showcases all of your strengths as a dancer
- DO include skills that you confidently and consistently perform, but are not repetitive to skills listed in the Required/Preferred Technique. This is your time to "show off" your strengths in stylization and choreography.
- Avoid modern/contemporary/lyrical choreography; we want to see how you will fit in with our team styles that are primarily jazz, pom, and hip hop.
WHAT TO WEAR:
- Female dancers should wear form-fitting apparel. Sports bra-style or crop tops and spandex shorts are common.
- Hair should be styled down and either straightened, curled, or styled in a natural texture.
- Makeup should enhance the features of the face and is required for auditions; we typically have a natural smokey eye and a dark red lipstick for games.
- Male dancers should wear a slim fit t-shirt or tank top and black shorts, dance pants, or joggers
- Attire for both males and females should reflect pride in the school spirit of Loyola and are preferred to be black, white, dark green, or grey in color.
- Jazz shoes/Turners and sneakers for hip hop
- Post earrings are allowed, but all other excessive jewelry should be removed prior to coming to auditions
AUDITION SCHEDULE:
TBD
TIME COMMITMENT AND TEAM SCHEDULE
To learn more about the time committment of being a member of the Loyola Dance Team and a general schedule overview, please read our Program Overview & Expectations document:
| LUDT Program Overview & Expectations |