Mini Jazz & Ballet Requirements
MUST STILL BE 11 YEARS OLD OR UNDER, AS OF JANUARY 1ST, 2025 FOR THE 2024-2025 SEASON.
*** If you are still 12 as of January 1st, 2025, AND have never been on a core company or never made Junior core, please attend all Mini technique and choreography classes throughout August as well as Junior Core!
· Must be dedicated to this company, choosing it above all outside activities, and have a positive & willing personality.
· Knows how to be a good teammate and encourager of those on the team, putting the team first above jealousy and self-interests!
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· Strong head spotting and turning skills being able to accomplish: chaine turn all the way across the floor, pique turn across the floor, and do solid single and double outside pirouettes.
· Clean battements in all directions and en releve.
· Awareness of a strong supporting leg and supporting side of the body.
· Grande jete and sauté chat split leaps to the front and in ala seconde (straddle/side leap).
· Must be diligent about having and keeping right and left splits as well as straddle splits with hips down & tummies on the floor!
· The ability to put all of the above in a progression combination.
· Strong performing and personality skills!!
· The ability to learn a combination in the center quickly, accurately and with showmanship.
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· Must have an understanding of basic barre exercises: plie, grande plie, tendu in all directions and out of 1st and 5th, degage in all directions and out of 1st and 5th, ronds de jambe, basic single frappe, developpe to 90 degrees in all directions, and grande battement in all directions.
· In the center: tendu combinations, single pirouette combinations, simple adage including developpes and grande plie in the center, single pirouette combinations and simple petite allegro.
· Must be able to execute medium allegro exercises: glissades, assembles, jetes, pas de bourree, balances, etc.
· Simple grande allegro, for example: tombe pas de bourree, glissade, grande jete.