Audition Requirements

Uploaded video is not permitted.  Applicants who upload a video will be considered to have selected a Video Audition and will not receive information about scheduling an On-campus Audition. If you intend to audition on campus, do not upload a video.

Audition Attire

• Applicants must wear dance practice clothes. No skirts, loose fitting t-shirts or leg warmers. Long hair must be tied back and pinned up. Appropriate undergarments such as dance belt for male dancers must be worn. Tights need to be convertible to allow bare feet for the contemporary portion of class.
• Ballet Female: leotard, flesh-toned or pink convertible tights and soft ballet slippers and pointe shoes.
• Ballet Male: leotard or tight-fitting t-shirt, black convertible tights, ballet slippers. 
• Contemporary applicants: Leotard or tight-fitting t-shirt and convertible tights or unitard. Ballet slippers. 

Audition Process

The audition class will consist of an abbreviated ballet class, barre and center, for all applicants, both ballet and contemporary majors, in ballet slippers. Pointe combinations will then be given for female ballet applicants. After a short break, all applicants will then take an abbreviated contemporary class in bare feet. Ballet applicants are dismissed after the contemporary class. The audition concludes with contemporary applicants presenting their self-choreographed solos. 

Photograph Requirements 

• Photographs uploaded to the application prior to an audition.
• Ballet and Contemporary applicants: photograph facing front, pointe tendu in second with arms in second.
• Female Ballet applicants: photograph in first or second arabesque on pointe.
• Male Ballet applicants: photograph in first or second arabesque.
• Contemporary applicants: photograph in a contemporary position. 

Audition Content Requirements

• A single video link or file uploaded to the UNCSA Admissions application by a designated deadline.
• A single video file no more than ten minutes in length.
• Only one side of each combination shown.
• Must be framed to show the applicant's full body throughout.
• Must not include any dancers other than the applicant.
• Must be no more than three months prior to submission.
• Video is not to be uploaded if auditioning on campus.

Audition Attire

• Applicants must wear dance practice clothes. No skirts, loose fitting t-shirts or leg warmers. Long hair must be tied back and pinned up. Appropriate undergarments such as dance belt for male dancers must be worn. 
• Ballet Female: Leotard, flesh-toned or pink tights and soft ballet slippers and pointe shoes.
• Ballet Male: Leotard or tight-fitting t-shirt, black tights, ballet slippers. 
• Contemporary applicants: leotard or tight-fitting t-shirt and tights or unitard. Ballet slippers for barre, bare feet or socks for solo.
• Wear clothing that contrasts with the filming environment so you can be seen clearly and stand out from the background. 

Ballet B.F.A. Applicants

• Barre Work (maximum of 5 minutes; only one side needed of each combination)
  • Pliés, tendus, adagio, grand battements.
• Center Work (maximum 5 minutes)
  • • Adagio
      • Pirouette combination with pirouettes en‐dehors and en‐dedans.
    • Allegro combinations:
      • • Petite allegro
        • Grand allegro (Optional, if enough space to execute the combination safely.)
    • Men, please include tours en l’air right and left.
    • Pointe work (ladies only): échappés, retirés, double pirouettes en‐dehors and en‐dedans on pointe.
    • Classical variation (ladies must present their variation on pointe)
      • one to two minutes in length
• Photograph Requirements
  • Photograph facing front, pointe tendu in second with arms in second.
  • Female ballet applicants: photograph in first or second arabesque on pointe.
  • Male ballet applicants: photograph in first or second arabesque. 

Contemporary B.F.A. Applicants

• Barre Work (maximum of 5 minutes; only one side needed of each combination)
  • Plié, tendu/degage, rond de jambe, passé développé (front, side and back), grand battement and a balance on one leg in attitude back.
•  Center Work (maximum 2 minutes)
  • A one to two‐minute self‐ choreographed solo.
  • Must be performed to ‘classical/art’ music.
  • Examples of composers: J. S. Bach, Ludwig von Beethoven, Aaron Copland, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Philip Glass.
• Photograph Requirements
  
  • Photograph in a contemporary position. 
  • Photograph facing front in point tendu second, arms in second