MRDC Spring 2018 audition/Free Workshop
Join the MOVEMENT! MRDC Auditions are here! Come audition to be a part
of one of Chicago's best and most versatile hip hop crews! Or come and enjoy a FREE hip hop workshop!
MRDC
performs, competes and battles at various events throughout the
Chicago-land area and the Midwest. MRDC also teaches dance classes and
workshops, host dance showcases and battles and is involved in community
outreach. This season will include PAID performances, repertory
concerts, freestyle works, full-length productions, school assemblies,
battles, and site-specific installations performed locally and across the Mid-West.
We are looking for all styles of Hip Hop dancers. If you are a
Freestyler, Popper, Locker, Breaker or a hip hop dancer that can pick up
any style of hip hop or hip hop fusion choreography, we want you! You
are not required to perform all of these styles but the more versatile
you are the better! Tumbling/Acro skills are a plus!
You can come to audition or just take the free class and have a good time!
Collective Dance (new location)
2940 N Lincoln Ave 2nd floor
Chicago, IL
Registration 12:30p
Workshop/Audition 1p
The Workshop Process:
DRILLS
- Learn advanced freestyle skills, perform freestyle dances
- Requirements: Willingness to learn fundamental hip hop styles
FREESTYLE
-Apply freestyle techniques and skills that you learned.
Requirements: Ability to freestyle to different types of music, stay in
control, show understanding of musicality while freestyling, show that
you can groove and flow
- Audition Format: Participate in a cypher
CHOREOGRAPHY
- Learn and perform choreographed pieces
- Requirements: Ability to retain & perform hip hop choreography as well as other styles.
- Time Commitment: two rehearsals a week; Sundays & Wednesdays. Company class on Sundays.
- Selectivity: Cuts based on skill level
- Audition Format: Learn a choreographed piece, perform in small groups