2026 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.
UPCOMING AUDITION DATES
Sunday, January 4
10am-12pm ; Q&A session 12pm-1pm
Poulsbo, WA
Inmotion Performing Arts Studio
Sunday, January 11
12pm-1:30pm
Orange, CA
Chapman University, Sandi Simon for Dance
Sunday, January 25
12pm-1:30pm
Murrieta, CA
N-PAC Norris Performing Arts Center
25747 Jefferson Ave, Murrieta, CA
Sunday, February 22
12pm-1:30pm
Santa Ana, CA
Santa Ana College
Sunday, April 12
12pm-1:30pm
Orange, CA
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 7, 2025 through May 10th, 2026.
To submit a video, register at the link below. After registration, send video link to kim@backhausdance.org.
