Dance and Cheer Team Auditions
Concordia's dance and cheer team members have a passion for dance and cheerleading and supporting Bulldog athletics.
The teams perform at home football and basketball games. Cheer also performs at home wrestling events. Team members participate in annual fundraisers and community events. A yearly focus of the dance team will be a collegiate national competition held in Florida. Cheer is currently moving towards becoming a competitive squad.
Do I need to register for audition?
Yes, all those who wish to arrange an audition or submit an audition video should register.
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When are auditions held?
Upcoming Dance/Cheer auditions will be held March 23, 2013, in the PE Building gym. Dance team tryouts will be held from 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. with cheer tryouts to follow from 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Are there other ways/days to audition?
Additional auditions for the 2013-14 season may be arranged on a one-on-one or small group basis throughout the year before the deadline of May 3, 2013. Please contact Head Coach Daneen Kovar Theye to schedule an audition.
Video: While personally attending auditions is the best way for us to evaluate your ability, we will accept video auditions through May 3, 2013 (see information below).
When will I learn if I have made the team?
You will be contacted by e-mail or phone of your status on the team within a few days.
What is the required technique?
If you cannot perform all of the listed techniques, don’t worry. We audition for every performance and competition and as the year progresses you will learn these skills and more. The Concordia dance and cheer teams are dedicated to developing everyone as individual dancers and cheerleaders as well as team members.
Dance technique:
- Right/left leaps
- Right/left center leap
- Right/left switch leaps
- Calypso/attitude jete
- Pirouette: double, triple, quad
- One eight count fouette turns or turns in second
- Layout
- Axle
- Leg hold turn
- Toe touch
Cheer skills:
- Front/back handspring
- Ariel
- Extension/leg scales/scorpion/bow and arrow
- Round off back tuck/standing back tuck
- Round off layout or twisting full
- Jumps: herkie, pike, toe touch
Auditioning by video
While personally attending auditions is the best way for us to evaluate your ability, we will accept video auditions through May 3, 2013.
Please send video auditions to the following address:
Concordia University
Attn: Daneen Kovar Theye
Walz Human Performance Complex
800 N. Columbia Ave.
Seward, NE 68434
Those submitting a video audition should ...
- Begin the video by introducing yourself by first and last name.
- Work through the audition lists mentioned below for either dance or cheerleading.
- Complete an audition registration form prior to sending your video.
Dance audition by video:
- Right/left leaps
- Right/left center leap
- Right/left switch leaps
- Calypso/attitude jete
- Pirouette double, triple, quad
- One eight count fouette turns or turns in second
- Two one minute dances: one hip hop/pom and the other in a style of your choice, preferably contemporary or jazz
Cheer audition by video:
- Front/back handspring
- Ariel
- Extension/leg scales/scorpion/bow and arrow
- Round off back tuck/standing back tuck
- Round off layout or twisting full
- Your school’s fight song
- Five chants/cheers (need to include at least one basketball and one football)
- If you are able, please include group/partner stunting
Expectations
What is the time commitment?
The time commitment and level of intensity will be greater than that of other teams. We practice five times a week and have team workouts. Practice times are determined based on student and coach schedules. This year the schedule was as follows.
Dance
Mon.: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. practice
Tues. & Thurs.: 4 - 5 p.m. weights, 5:15 - 6:15 p.m. practice
Wed. & Fri.: 3:30 -5:00 p.m. practice
Cheer
Mon. - 4:30 - 5:30 Practice
Tues. & Thurs. - 4 - 5 Weights, 6:00 - 6:45 Practice
Wed. & Fri. - 5:00 - 6:30 Practice
Fall overview
Practice five days a week
Strength and conditioning sessions supervised by the coach
Football game performances
Basketball game performances
Fundraising
Kids clinic
Spring overview
Practice five days a week
Strength and conditioning sessions supervised by the coach
Basketball game performances
Wrestling cheer
Fundraising
Kids clinic
Nationals
What benefits are there for members of the teams?
Dancers at Concordia University are eligible for athletic scholarships. The cheerleading squad at Concordia is currently a club sport. Members of the dance/cheer team receive full use of the Walz Human Performance Complex including a locker room, state of the art weight room and training room. Both dance and cheer travel with the Concordia University basketball teams to the highly anticipated Concordia Invitational Tournament (CIT) every year.
