2025-2026 Team Tryout Information 

Our mandatory tryout parent and student information meeting will be held Monday, February 3rd, 2025 at 7:00pm in the McMillen High School Cafeteria.

Tryout paperwork is due by 4:30pm on Thursday, February 20th to the McMillen High School front office.

Our team tryouts will be held on March 7, 10, 11, and 12, 2025.

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)