knarfydna

How exactly does the on-campus audition work?
How long does it last?
Any details would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Knarfy

wishadream

I also have a question...If you are auditioning at unifieds, do you think it will hurt you because they dont see you dance?

music_is_life

wishadream-- I wouldn't stress about the lack of dance at unifieds. This past year when I auditioned for PSU at Chicago Unifieds, if they were interested in seeing more, they called you back later in the day for dance. So you still get to dance if they feel they need to see that.


knarfydna- sorry I can't answer your question, as I didn't audition on campus.

cincopedia

I know several girls who were accepted to PSU this year from L.A. Unifieds, which means without a dance audition, including my D. But her main strengths are singing and acting. If your dancing is better than your singing and acting, it might be worth a trip.

ttmom

Worth the trip if your dancing is as GOOD as your singing and acting too. IF dance is one of your strengths, go to campus. The dance audition there is before the singing and acting, so yo can make a good first impression going into the rest of the audition. JMHO ;')

svb0000

I agree with ttmom If dance is a strength I would make the trip to PSU for an on campus audition. PSU is one of the few schools I auditioned at that holds a ballet AND jazz dance call. If you are a trained ballet and jazz dancer auditioning on campus to show that you can dance both styles well will be a coup. Like ttmom said, the dance call happens first thing in the morning before the singing and acting auditions, so you can certainly impress early in the audition process if you are a strong dancer.

The audition begins early in the morning, I think I had to be there at 8 am...anyways on my day, Feb. 28, they had a large group of kids auditioning so they split us into two groups. There were two dance rooms where the dance calls were being held so all of us warmed up in one studio, then group 1 stayed to learn the dance, and group 2 moved to the studio next door to learn the dance. The faculty split itself up amongst the two rooms. We learned the ballet first, performed it, then the faculty switched rooms. So the teachers that watched group 1 do the ballet moved next door to watch group 2 do their jazz, and the teachers next door that watched group 2's ballet moved to group 1's room to watch their jazz. Both dances were pretty basic. I think this all ended by 10:00 am.

The vocal and acting auditions were done the same way, in two separate rooms, with the faculty evenly split amongst the two rooms. There was a list outside of each room with the order we had to be in. We were asked to sing first, so that during the monologues, the person next on the list to audition could quietly walk in to the pianist and give them song tempos and such. When the audition was finished, we were instructed to exit through the side door and wait there to see if we were able to stay for a callback or head home. An mfa acting student sat in on the auditions, and was the one to gather the news from the faculty when the student was finished auditioning, then relay it to the student as they were waiting outside the door. All vocal and monologue auditions were finished by 1-1:30.

After a short break, callbacks began. All students who were asked to stay waited in a room, and we were called upon by the mfa acting student when it was our turn. For the callbacks, the whole faculty joined in one room to watch. In the callbacks they asked me to sing one of my songs, but gave me acting tips before hand, I'm guessing to see how well I could take direction. Then there was an interview, and that was that! The last part of the audition was an ear test. We met with a pianist in the studio across the hall once our callback was finished. It was very simple; he played pitches, we had to sing them back, ect.

I was second to last to do my callback, and I was off campus by 3:00.