Candidates attending the audition are required to provide photographs with their audition form:
- 1st position en face, arms 1st
- 1st position en face in demi plié, arms 2nd
- 6th position (parallel) en face and facing de côté, arms en haut (5th position)
- From 5th position en face, tendu en avant, arms bras croisé (3rd position)
- Degagé de côté en face with right and left legs, arms bras croisé
- Tendu en arrière (derrière) facing de côté, with right and left legs, arms 1st arabesque line
You will also need to provide demonstration, appropriate to candidate’s current level of study, of:
Junior and Intermediate Students:
Barre
- demi and/or grand pliés: once in each position
- battement tendus: once en croix
- developpés: en avant and de côté
- battement fondu a terre: en croix
- grand battements: once en croix
Centre
- ports de bras
- adage: developpés or fouetté to arabesque
- preparation for pirouette
- petit allegro: sautés, changements, échappés
- allegro: pose temps levés, pas balancés, pas de valse
Senior Students:
Barre
- demi and grand pliés: once in each position
- battement tendu & glissés: 2 in each position en croix, both sides
- ronds de jambe a terre & en l’air: 4 en déhors & en dedans
- battement frappé: as for tendus and sur la demi pointe
- developpé en croix at 90o on both sides
- battement fondu en l’air (45o) en croix, both sides
- grand battements – as for tendus
Centre
- ports de bras: include circular ports de bras and chassé with rotation
- temps lié: in open positions
- adage: include developpés passé and promenade in attitude
- pirouette: combination showing en déhors and en dedans
- petit allegro: include batterie
- grand allegro: include grand jeté en avant, en tournant
Boys
Include: all according to your appropriate level
- preparation for and/or demonstration of: tour en l’air
- échappés sautés en croix (junior), entrechat quatre (middle), échappé sauté battu fermé (senior)
- grand pirouettes a la seconde en dedans/en déhors (seniors)
- grand pirouettes sautillées a la seconde or arabesque (seniors)
Girls (en pointe): all according to your appropriate level
Barre (junior and middle)
- Rises in all positions (facing or sideways to the barre)
- Relevés (2to2/2to1), échappés en croix, poses de côté, en avant/en arrière, couru
Centre (seniors only)
- Pirouettes sur place and en diagonale, couru and chainés
- Relevés combination (1to1), pose passé en avant through retiré
Senior Company candidates are to make a short (no more than 16 counts in total each side) enchaînement which demonstrates their understanding of the technique requirements of their level and which illustrates their performance quality and personality (the girls are to be en pointe).