2010-2011 UT DANCE TEAM

Officers:	Caitlin James, Director American Gonzalez, Assistant Director Candace Dwyer, Treasurer Sarah Smith, Social Officer Megan Morgan, Fundraiser Sydney Drost, Publicity Officer Julia Barber, Apparel Coordinator
Current Members:	Marissa Alvarez,Annika Atkinson, Kismet Cuellar, Michelle Dye, Kellie Fineman, Selina Montez, Bree Wytcherley
Recent Alums	May 2010: Rachael McCoy, Nikita Bhappu May 2009: Kara Martinez, Monica Ochoa, and Sarah Wheeler Dec 2009: Kayla Orekomaiya

Congratulations to our Spring 2010 new members!

Taylor Johnston
Sarah Gojer
Annie Compton
Joelle Galapate


Thank you so much to everyone who auditioned! We enjoyed having you and hope you will continue to share your passion for dance!


If you're thinking about auditioning to join Texas Dance, audition information can be found here, and check out a special letter from the directors at the bottom of the page.

Now follow us on Twitter @UTexasDance!

T-shirts now available! For $20 you can support Texas Dance with a classic burnt orange t-shirt that says TEXAS DANCE with a Longhorn on it. Contact any member of the team for details.

Recent News

Texas Dance performed in our annual Spring Show on May 1 at McCallum Fine Arts Academy. The show featured our Nationals routine, choreography by many members, and five guest performances! Thank you to everyone who made the show a success: the people of McCallum Fine Arts Academy, our guest performers, our choreographers and directors, and all of our family and friends, for your continued support of Texas Dance! We will be performing again beginning Fall 2010 and would love to see you there!

Texas Dance held Spring Auditions for the 2010-2011 team on April 24, 2010. Fourteen ladies auditioned and four were welcomed to the team as new members. If you could not make to the audition, we would love to see you in the fall! Keep checking back here for more information.

Texas Dance competed in NDA Collegiate Nationals in Daytona, FL April 7-11! At Nationals we placed third out of five teams in Challenge Cup! Watch our routine!!



Interested in sponsoring us? Email Megan Morgan here for more information. Wish us luck!

What's Up Next...

NDA Camp
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
July 23 - July 25, 2010
Texas Dance will spend the weekend at SMU with NDA staff and many of the teams we will compete against at Nationals in the spring. We will learn a camp dance, incorporating jazz, hip hop, and pom, and two stylized routines. At the end of the weekend we will compete with the other teams for a bid to Nationals in Daytona, Florida.

WE'RE TEXAS!

"Texas Dance" is the official dance team of the University of Texas at Austin! We have been in existence for over 20 years, and look forward to welcoming new faces to our team each year. Our team has performed at many UT events, such as Camp Texas, the OU Torchlight Parade and Rally and Texas A&M Hex Rally, and Basketball halftimes.

We are an entirely student-run organization, overseen by a RecSports advisor and team officers, who work extremely hard to manage the team. Although performing for crowds is our main focus, we also make time for philanthropic and social activities. We constantly seek to spread our passion for dance to the city of Austin beyond the UT community through events ranging from children's camps to hip-hop clinics.

Each dancer on the team brings her own individual style to the group, making for an amazingly diverse group of girls whose talents extend far beyond what is seen on the surface. We are athletes, singers, and honor students who come together on the dance floor as a closely knit family with a common goal to dance our hearts out and entertain our audience.

WE WANT YOU!

Each fall and spring, we host auditions for new members. We do not have a set number of dancers, so we never have a specific number of spots to fill. If you love to dance like we do, we'd love to have you!

Before fall auditions we host an optional clinic to give interested dancers a feel for what will be expected of them at the actual audition. It follows the same format as the day of auditions, but has nothing to do with the selection process. During the audition we stretch and learn across the floor combinations and a team dance. Current members take the audition class right alongside those auditioning, and are always there to help out!

Technique is very important to us, and skills such as extensions, double and triple turns, and Russians, are always part of the audition - don't be scared! Though we emphasize technical ability, we're not perfect. Individual style is what catches our eye and regardless of your technical ability, if you're a performer, we're definitely going to be impressed!

Information about Fall Auditions will be updated here over the summer!

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Want to talk to us about the team? Join our mailing list and we'll let you know about upcoming appearances and events. To email our Director Caitlin James with any questions you may have, click here. Although we practice up to five days a week, the entire team practices each Monday and Wednesday from 8 to 10 pm, and Sunday from 6 to 9 pm in RSC 1.104, if you'd like to take a peek at what we're up to!

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