Dance Auditions
An audition is required for all dance majors.
Applicants who want to pursue a dance minor are encouraged to audition to be considered for a performing arts scholarship.
Requirements
- Submit the appropriate application: First-time students | Transfer students
- Auditions are required before applicant notification, as Nazareth accepts students directly to our programs. If you are applying to another major and auditioning for Dance, you may receive notification earlier.
- Schedule your audition
- Timing: Auditions are held from fall to spring. All audition dates will close two weeks prior, so please register early.
- Format: In-person, with a virtual option if you cannot be at one of our in-person dates. For a virtual option, email Favor Chujor at nchujor6@naz.edu.
- Upload any relevant materials to your Admissions Dashboard
Schedule Your Audition
Select an audition date
After registering, you will need to provide a dance resume and photo. These should be uploaded through your Admissions Dashboard.
Virtual audition
Nazareth will coordinate with you a recorded audition. You will submit your recordings through your Admissions Dashboard using YouTube.
Please email Favor Chujor at nchujor6@naz.edu if you’d like to pursue this option.
Audition Process
Master class
Come to your audition prepared to take a master class taught by Nazareth dance faculty (ballet barre and center, across-the-floor modern combination), dressed in appropriate body-conforming dance wear. Please bring ballet shoes and wear leggings or convertible tights for going bare-foot during Modern.
Solo
After the group class, you will perform a prepared two-minute solo in the style of your choice. Please bring any appropriate dance shoes, your music (on your phone app is perfect; we have an adapter for the sound system), and a water bottle in addition to the attire above.
Tips to ace your audition
"Be yourself... we want you to be the person you are."
— Heather Roffe, Nazareth University dance professor & program director
Questions?
For technology issues, questions about the admissions process, or questions regarding your application:
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Favor Chujor
- Admissions Counselor in Admissions
- 585-389-2832
- nchujor6@naz.edu
- Admissions 206
For questions related to the theatre & dance department or audition material:
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Heather Roffe Wiktorski
- Co-Chair, Professor of Dance, Director of the Undergraduate Dance Program in Theatre & Dance
- 585-389-2163
- hroffe4@naz.edu
- Arts Center 23
- Bio
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Education: M.F.A., The College at Brockport
Classes: Ballet, Choreography, Contemporary/Partnering, Improvisation, Modern, Senior Seminar
Teaching and Research Interests: Choreography, Dance Pedagogy/Research, Improvisation & the Creative Process, Modern & Contemporary Partnering, Social Dance, Somatically-informed Pilates, Anatomically-informed Ballet
Roffe has performed nationally and internationally with the Garth Fagan Dance Company; Bill Evans Dance Company; FuturPointe Dance; Assemblage Dance; her own work as artistic director of Heather Roffe, Dance; and at festivals such as Jacob’s Pillow, the International Dance Festival, and the American Dance Guild Festival.
Roffe’s choreography has been presented across the country, internationally, and has been commissioned by dance companies and college programs. Her choreography explores the human experience, including relationships to each other, our world, and technology; solidarity vs. isolationism; and divisive memes such as classism, racism, and gender. Roffe collaborates through movement to reveal and dramatize the power of human gesture and of the body’s inherent ability to convey universal themes of love, loss, compassion, and fear.
Roffe is an active scholar in the field of dance, presenting nationally and internationally on dance pedagogy, somatics, and dance and feminism.
Read full bio.
Her website: heather-roffe.squarespace.com
Scholarships
Nazareth offers performing arts scholarships based on the quality of your dance audition for both dance majors and minors.