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Red Hots Tryout Requirements
Dance Team Requirements
Auditions for the Dance Team are open to all VSU students, including incoming freshmen and transfer students. Proof of admission may be required at the auditions.

Anyone interested in becoming a member of the VSU Dance Team should have a strong background in performing, dance techniques, and dance skills.

Audition Guidelines

Stage 1:
-Center floor stretch to warm up
-Across the floor combinations of kicks, turns and leaps
-Short jazz and hip-hop combination will be taught
-There will be a first cut made and the remaining dancers will continue on to the next state

Stage 2:
-A second jazz combination will be taught and performed for the judges
-Each dancer will individually show the following skills:
     -Double Pirouette
     -Triple Pirouette
     -Fouette Turns
     -Split Straddle Leap
     -Switch Leap
     -Grand Jete Leap
     -Flexibility/Extension Holds
     -A 45-second to one minute dance routine, any style that will show their strength and ability Please bring your own music!
*Please feel free to audition if you do not have all of these skills. There is an element of teaching that occurs during Red Hots practices.

After the try-out has been completed, the names of the dancers that have made the team will be announced. A short meeting will occur immediately following to give out information pertaining to the following year.

Please come dressed in dance appropriate clothing, shoes, and have your hair back and out of your face. Please, no loose fitting clothing (t-shirts, baggy pants or shorts) and no tennis shoes.

Questions regarding the dance program should be directed to head coach and coordinator Kelli Holland at kmhollan@valdosta.edu.
  
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