Our tryouts for the 2024-2025 team have concluded.
Check back in the fall of 2024 for 2025-2026 tryout information!
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2024-2025 Team Tryout Information
The McMillen High School Dazzlers Drill Team will be hosting tryouts
February 26-29, 2024.
Tryout paperwork is due by 4:30 pm on Wednesday, February 21, 2024.
Our mandatory tryout information meeting will be held Monday, January 22, 2024 at 7:00 pm.
Wondering what the tryout routine will include? Here's an example video!
McMillen Dazzlers Team Tryout Routine 2018
Technical Skills that have been featured in previous tryout routines include:
- Battements (brush kicks)
- Calypso (brush leap with back leg in attitude)-usually moving forward or to the side
- High kicks in a kick line – exercise, fan, jump, straight
- Hold/extension
- Jete’ developpe’ from a chasse’ or two steps, moving in any direction
- One to two eight-counts of improvisation
- Pirouette en dedans (inside) – single/double
- Pirouette en dehors (outside) – double
- Quick, precise movements
- Right split from a standing or kneeling position
- Russian (leap in second) – moving sideways
- Soutenu turn
- Stationary jete (leap)
- Surprise/corner leap
- Tilt kick
- Tilt jump – moving forward or to the back from a chasse’ or two steps
- Tour en l’air – single
- Two chaine’ turns (one on releve’, one in plie’) moving forward to a leap in second (also known as a Disc)
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