Auditions 2025 - Skill Requirements
What are the Skill Requirements?
Every year we provide team hopefuls with a list of skills that they will be required to perform at auditions as well as additional skills that we would like to have but not everyone on the team may have.
Required Skills:
Skills that you will be requested to perform at auditions and are a minimum requirement to be on the team.
Asset Skills:
Skills you can optionally perform at auditions if you have them and are seen as an asset and could be used in a routine as a feature.
Jazz
Required
Double pirouette
4 or more consecutive Fouettés
4 or more turns in second
Posè turns
Chaînés
Jeté with developpé
Switch split
Baryshnikov (turning single attitude jump)
Travelling Russian
Kicks to eye level front and side
Assets
Triple or more pirouette
Switch Russian
Turning Russian
Firebird
Switch arabesque (Maddie jump)
Any tumbling
Fouetté turning combos
Leg hold turns (front or side)
Pom
Required Skills:
Kicks - Minimum height of eye level for front & side; both right and left
Baryshnikov (turning single attitude jump) - Right & Left
Single Toe Touch - Traditional Prep
Double Pirouette - Triple preferred
Turns in Second on Right - 4 (or more) into a double out
Firebird/ Calypso/ Single Attitude Jump
Asset Skills
Aerials
Single handed walkovers
Front Aerials
Turns in Second on Left
Float turns within a turning pattern
Switch Split
Switch Russian
Switch Arabesque (Maddie Ziegler Jump)
Turning Russian
Double Toe Touch - Traditional Prep
Any other skills you would like to showcase.
Street
Foundation in Hip Hop and other street styles such as:
House
Breakin'
Waacking
Vogue
Tap
*Must have a good understanding of rhythm
Shuffles
Ball drops heel drops
Paradiddles/riffs/riffles/ split riff
Pick overs/pick ups/ Shugabops/ pick-ups onto heel
Wings
Toe stands/crawl/ cramp rolls