What are they looking for at auditions?

STILL FIGURING OUT TRAINING OPTIONS?
Instead of blindly choosing skills to work on, why not choose the ones that translate directly into booking and earning power? Using members’ audition pages, here’s what we learned from 3 months of listings:


From several EAST COAST AUDITIONS posted recently:

(52%) asked for dancers with singing skills.
(45%) asked for dancers with acting skills.
(33%) asked for dancers with comedic skills.
(30%) asked for dancer with jazz and musical theatre skills.
(15%) asked for dancers with tap skills.
(15%) asked for dancers with hip hop skills.
(12%) asked for dancers with ballet skills.
(9%) asked for dancers with modern/contemporary skills.
(9%) asked for dancers with partnering skills.
(2%) asked for dancers with fire dancing skills.

Other skills mentioned: Puppetry, B-girl,and Fosse-vaudeville styles.


From several WEST COAST AUDITIONS posted recently:

(45%) asked for dancers with singing skills.
(33%) asked for dancers with musical theatre skills.
(33%) asked for dancers with ballet skills.
(23%) asked for dancers with modern/contemporary skills.
(23%) asked for dancers with jazz dance skills
(20%) asked for dancers with acting skills.
(20%) asked for dancers with comedic skills.
(12%) asked for dancers with gymnastic skills.

Other skills mentioned: Latin Dance, Juggling, Ventriloquist, Belly dance, ballroom, tap, partnering, and fire dancing.