DF Technique Requirements

*The following technique requirements are skills we will be looking for throughout auditions when selecting teams. We do not expect dancers to have these skills perfectly, but at least have the knowledge of what they are and the ability to attempt them.

Petites:

●  Single jazz pirouettes (both sides)

●  Right and left jetes

●  Chaine turns

●  Chasses

●  Battements (front, both legs)

Minis:

●  Single jazz pirouettes (both sides), working on doubles

●  Right and left jetes

●  Russians

●  Chaine turns

●  Pique Turns

●  Chasses

●  Battements (front and side, both legs)

●  Starting calypsos

●  Press leaps

Juniors:

●  Double jazz pirouettes (both sides), working on triples

●  Right and left jetes

●  Chaine turns

●  Pique turns

●  Chasses

●  Russians

●  Calypsos

●  Press leaps

●  Stationary leaps

●  Battements (front and side, both legs)

●  Tilts/Tilt jumps

●  Starting switch leap progressions

●  Starting turns a la seconde

Tweens:

●  Right and left jetes

●  Chaine turns

●  Pique turns

●  Chasses

●  Russians

●  Battements (front and side, both legs)

●  Triple Pirouettes

●  Calypsos

●  Press leaps

●  Turning discs

●  Turns a la second/ beginning to work on these

●  Switch jetes

●  Tilts/ tilt jumps

●  Starting switch tilts and switch arabesques

Teens/Seniors:

●  Right and left jetes

●  Chaine turns

●  Pique turns

●  Chasses

●  Russians

●  Battements (front and side, both legs)

●  Triple pirouettes

●  Calypsos

●  Press leaps

●  Turning discs

●  Turns a la seconde

●  Turn progressions

●  Switch jetes

●  Tilts/ tilt jumps

●  Switch tilts

●  Switch arabesques

●  Floor leaps

●  pencil/coupe turns variations