2025 SUMMER INTENSIVE
SCHOLARSHIP AUDITIONS

Scroll down for Video Audition guidelines.

Live Audition: $20 pre-paid online, $25 at the door

Video Submission Fee: $35

Through Backhausdance’s B. Mor Summer Dance Intensive Scholarship Fund, the company grants a limited number of talent scholarships to its summer intensive. To be considered, you must attend a scholarship audition or submit a video audition (scroll down for details).

Backhausdance does not require an audition for admission. Auditions are for scholarship consideration only.

The live audition consists of a contemporary ballet barré and/or modern center work. Dancers should come prepared with ballet shoes and/or socks for center phrase work.


AUDITION DATES

ORANGE COUNTY, CA

Audition Fee: $20
At the door:
$20
First Audition Discount!

ORANGE COUNTY, CA

Audition Fee: $20
At the Door: $25

Sunday, January 12
12pm-1:30pm
Santa Ana College Dance Studio

1530 W. 17th Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706

Parking lot #11
- Enter from College Ave. off of 17th St.
- Follow signs for Building G, the main Gymnasium, G-108.

Call the BD Line at 714-497-3137 with any parking issues


Sunday, February 9
12pm-1:30pm
Chapman University, Sandi Simon for Dance


VIDEO AUDITION GUIDELINES

Video Submission Fee: $35

Video auditions will be considered for dancers unable to attend a livestream audition. Footage should be between 3 and 5 minutes in length and include the following:

  • Brief Self-Introduction: Name, Brief Description of Previous Training, Why you’d like to participate, and how a scholarship would help you

  • Technique Samples: Barre or Center Work (Plies, Tendus, Extensions, Across the Floor Progressions of Turns and/or Jumps, etc)

  • Phrasework Sample(s): Variations, Improvisations and/or Choreography

Video submissions will be accepted beginning November 29, 2024 through May 1st, 2025.

To submit a video, register at the link below. After registration, send video link to kim@backhausdance.org.