TRY OUT CLINIC
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If you are planning on trying out for the dance team we strongly recommend that you attend this clinic. This is a great opportunity to work on technique, skills, and to ask any questions you may have. The turn sequences that will be asked of you from tryouts will be taught at the clinic and any skill that is in the try out routine will be gone over. The clinic is typically held one week before tryouts.
Clinic Includes:
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QUALIFICATIONS
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Team members are selected through a dance team try out process. Taking only correspondence, extension, or UWM Waukesha classes do not qualify a person as a student. The team size ranges from 10 to 18, depending on what the talent pool is during the selection process. All team members must try out out each year. Student wishing to try out for the team must:
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PROCEDURES
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Tryouts consist of two parts: Preliminaries and Finals. Preliminaries will be on a Saturday and Finals on Sunday. The tryouts process are closed to the public.
Candidates may submit a video in lieu of attending the try out. To qualify the coach must be notified in advance. Please see Video Tryouts for more information. PRELIMINARIES: Please mail in your application in early to ensure a prompt start! You can pre-register by mailing in the application and a check made out to the "Panther Dance Team." You can also pay via PayPal (PayPal.Me/pantherdanceteam), be sure to put in the comments "Your Name" with "Tryouts 2020." A confirmation email will be sent once the registration is received. Please mail your registration a minimum a week in advance in order for us to receive it in time. Only exact cash, check, or PayPal will be accepted at the door. Please wear a solid black fitted tank top, sports bra, or leotard with a solid black booty short so that judges can see all your movement. Also please wear nude jazz or half jazz shoes. Make yourself presentable with your hair pulled back cleanly and neatly out of your face in a bun and put on performance-ready makeup (lipstick, eye shadow, blush). Bring along with you (if you haven't mailed in already):
Candidates will learn the fight song routine (traditional pom) and a short jazz routine. At the end of preliminaries each candidate will audition in groups of 3-4. They will be evaluated on the jazz routine and select skills for self-confidence, technique, endurance, and dance skill. After all candidates are evaluated the finalists will be announced at the end of the day.
Skills For Prelims Are:
Schedule:
FINALS: Please wear a solid black fitted tank top, sports bra, or leotard with a solid black booty short so that judges can see all your movement. Also please wear nude jazz or half jazz shoes. Make yourself presentable with your hair pulled back cleanly and neatly out of your face in a bun and put on performance-ready makeup (lipstick, eye shadow, blush). Candidates will audition in groups of 2-3. Each will be evaluated on the skills, fight song, and try out routines learned at preliminaries. Dancers are scored in rhythm, showmanship, skills, memory, endurance, and dance technique. The new members will be announced after all candidates are evaluated. Skills For Finals Are:
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