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Video Audition Guidelines

Video auditions should be emailed, as a link, to: mlburns@mdc.edu and should include the following:

I. INTRODUCTION - please let us know your name, where you are from, and why the NWSA BFA program is of interest to you for college.

II. TECHNIQUE (a total of five minutes)

Brief demonstration of technical ability, as follows:

1. Modern/Contemporary Technique Classwork:

• In place - total body movement at all spatial levels demonstrating balance, extension, use of torso, isolations, and control of off-center movement
• Through space - combinations demonstrating turns, falls, and jumping at slow and fast tempos

2. BALLET

• Several examples of barre work
• Center floor - Adagio, including such steps as grand pliés, développés, promenades, and pirouettes
• Through space - such as a Waltz combination; Petite allegro including such steps as pas de bourrée, changements, entrechats-quatre, sissones, glissades, pas de chats, brisés; Grand allegro including such steps as grand jetés, grand jetés entrechats, tours en l’air, and tour jetés

III. PERFORMANCE - A one-minute solo in either modern, jazz, or ballet style of dance. The solo may be from the classic or contemporary repertoire or be an original work composed by the student or a teacher.

Specifications for Preparation of Video

• Video audition should be emailed as a video link (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) Musical accompaniment is preferable. Make sure that the sound can be heard clearly
• The performance space should be large enough so that the performer's movements are not constrained
• The camera should be placed sufficiently close to the performer so that positioning and movement of all parts of the body are clearly visible. The camera should frame the entire body at all times
• The camera should remain in one location during filming and the work should be shot straight on. However, if the performance space is large, the camera may pan to keep the performer in view. Zooms are permitted, but only if the full body is kept in view.

Transcripts

During the NWSA application process, official transcripts are not required. We highly recommend that you have your unofficial transcript available in case the division needs to provide class recommendations for your first semester.

Upon final acceptance to New World School of the Arts*, final and official transcripts for each school that you attended must be forwarded to Miami Dade College. For instructions please visit: https://www.mdc.edu/transcripts/send-transcripts.aspx