Extreme Dance Team 2009

The “EXTREME DANCE TEAM 8” is a fabulous, fantastic and fun event designed to promote a feeling of good will and friendship between the various schools. This is a competitive event with dancers from different schools coming together on the same team and competing for the honor of being the “Extreme Team” of the 2009 B.C. Annual Dance Competition. The number of teams competing will depend on the number of entries we received. There is a separate list of combinations for the 11 to 12 year old competitors and the 13 and up competitors.

We want all the dancers to relax and make this an exciting event for the audience. Take this opportunity to display your technique and showmanship. This is the event where we encourage the audience to become involved and cheer enthusiastically for all the dancers.

All juniors will be divided into 2 to 4 teams and will be on the stage at the same time. Combination 1 will be performed one dancer at a time by all dancers on the team. Then combo 1 will be performed 1 dancer at a time by all the dancers on team 2. This pattern will repeat until all teams and all combinations have been executed. There will be 8 counts of music between each dancer’s combinations with the exception of the Musical Interpretation Category where there will be enough time allotted to wait 16 counts so that the dancer can familiarize themselves with the music. There will be a separate song picked for each person in the Musical Interpretive Category.

Seniors will run the same way as stated above.

Dancers should be familiar with the qualifications of this event, but it is not necessary for the dancer to memorize each combination or the order in which they are required. The combinations will be listed on a bulletin board on each side of the stage. These combinations are listed below this information.

The adjudicators will have a sheet with all the combinations on it and each dancer’s number. The range of the marks will be from 1 to 10 for each combination. The winning team will have the highest total marks.

Jazz Productions of B.C. is proud to offer this exciting and unusual event and we know it will be the highlight of the competition. Enter this team event and be eligible to win the exciting prize that we have waiting for the “EXTREME DANCE TEAM 2008”.

Extreme Team Junior & Senior Combinations

#1 – “Warm Up” – 16 counts
Chasse, pas de bourree (may turn), pas de bourree (may turn), hitch, rock, step hop arabesque, hitch kick, double chaine, rock

#2 – “Turns” – 16 counts
Ballet chasse, triple chaine, ballchange to prepare, pirouette (as many as you can in music), ballchange to prepare, pirouette (as many as you can in music), pose coupe turn, pose coupe turn, quadruple chaine

#3 – “Jumps” – 16 counts
Chasse step jete, 3 runs Russian, downturn axle, downturn jete attitude

#4 – “Floor Work” – 32 counts
Walk in (4), split (may be jazz or full), on tummy, swing legs to corner, back shoulder split roll to tummy, roll onto back, sit and jazz push up, face audience, exit

#5 – “FUN” – 32 counts
Your best jump (1-4), back swivel turn with shoulder pops, cartwheel chasse cartwheel, back bend to bridge, walk in bridge, spiral/inside out/flip over/kick over into downward dog, slide to tummy, roll back and stand, exit