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The Ultimate Guide to Dance Team Tryout Secrets (Jr./Sr. High), 3rd Edition

Want to make your junior high or high school dance team this year? Then you need The Ultimate Guide to Dance Team Tryout Secrets! Summer Adoue-Johansen gives you all the best tips learned from her years as a Texas A&M Aggie Dancer, American Dance/Drill Team School staff member, dance judge, and award-winning dancer to help YOU make the team this year! In this step-by-step guide to preparing for junior/senior high school level dance team auditions, you'll learn:

- what happens at a high school level dance team tryout
- what questions to ask before the auditions to determine if it's the right team for you, as well as what to expect at their specific auditions
- how to find a mentor to personally guide you
- improve your stamina, strength, and technique for great high kicks
- a detailed flexibility plan with photos to help you develop perfect splits and great flexibility for beautiful leaps and kicks
- exercises and drills to show you how to develop great toe touches and high kicks
- what to wear, and what NOT to wear, at the tryout clinic and audition day
- audition makeup and hairstyling tips to ensure you look your best for the big day
- and much, much more!

The first and best book for anyone thinking about auditioning for a junior or senior high school dance team!

"This book will be a must for every dancer that is trying out for a performance team. Summer's expertise will guide every young candidate to reach their dreams!“
- Joyce E. Pennington, President and CEO
American Dance/Drill Team School®

Want to make your junior high or high school dance team this year? Then you need The Ultimate Guide to Dance Team Tryout Secrets! Summer Adoue-Johansen gives you all the best tips learned from her years as a Texas A&M Aggie Dancer, American Dance/Drill Team School staff member, dance judge, and award-winning dancer to help YOU make the team this year! In this step-by-step guide to preparing for junior/senior high school level dance team auditions, you'll learn:

- what happens at a high school level dance team tryout
- what questions to ask before the auditions to determine if it's the right team for you, as well as what to expect at their specific auditions
- how to find a mentor to personally guide you
- improve your stamina, strength, and technique for great high kicks
- a detailed flexibility plan with photos to help you develop perfect splits and great flexibility for beautiful leaps and kicks
- exercises and drills to show you how to develop great toe touches and high kicks
- what to wear, and what NOT to wear, at the tryout clinic and audition day
- audition makeup and hairstyling tips to ensure you look your best for the big day
- and much, much more!

The first and best book for anyone thinking about auditioning for a junior or senior high school dance team!

"This book will be a must for every dancer that is trying out for a performance team. Summer's expertise will guide every young candidate to reach their dreams!“
- Joyce E. Pennington, President and CEO
American Dance/Drill Team School®

For ten years in the 1980s and early 1990s, "Everyone" bought their jeans from Crazy, in Broad Street, Bristol.

Margaret Thatcher's head on a sexy model's Levi's-clad body is an image many people may remember from the advertising campaign which marked the halcyon days of the Crazy Jeans chain.

The business, run by Mike and Orange Trevellion, and their business partner Tom Johnstone, had its flagship store in Broad Street, Bristol, in the 1980s and as anyone who was a member of the denim-wearing public at the time will tell you: "Everyone bought their jeans from Crazy."

Not only was the vast building packed to the rafters with every' different brand of jeans, sweatshirts and T-shirts you could think of, the staff were helpful and laid back, they played the right music, and most importantly, the prices were rock bottom.

Mike Trevellion got the idea for the Bristol branch after being involved in the earlier success of Dicky Dirt's, a famous jeans emporium in Fulham, London, which was as notorious for its ?7 jeans as it was for its law-breaking opening hours.

Mike says: "The remarkable thing about that Shop was that when a pair of Levi's would cost around ?16 or ?17, he opened up and was selling them for ?7, which, at the time was tremendous.

There was no discounting in the rag trade in those days.

We took over this old cinema in North End Road and converted it into a huge shop. We were the first people to do seven-days-a-week trading, when trading on a Sunday was still illegal."

Mike says the shop lobbied government to Change the rules and in the mean time, paid the fines for breaking the law.

He says: "It was open from 9am to llpm. It was a thing of the time and it was never going to last because it was chaotic. We were just so busy. I saw the end coming in 1981, by which time I was just starting a family.

"We used to get coach loads of people from Bristol coming up with shopping lists from all their family members so I thought it would be a good place to relocate to and open a shop along a similar model.

"We came down and found the shop in Broad Street. There wasn't much else around there but I reckoned if you had something good to sell, people would come to you.

"This was in July 1982. TopMan was open then, but it was before Next even started.

"We started seven-days-a-week trading and were open between 9am and 9pm, whieh^again, was unusual."

The shop was a success from week one. It wasn't as cut-throat with its pricing as Dicky Dirt's had been but the jeans were still cheap compared to the competition.

The most striking thing about the shop was the sheer size of it. The building, which has now become the Arc Bar, was a former dance hall, with a slate-floored gallery all the way around the top, which Mike cut big holes through to let the light filter through the glass roof to fill the place with natural light.

He says: "It was a very unusual shop. Quite avant garde and imaginative and just very different from anything Bristol had already."

Mike says he ran the business with integrity and believed in giving customers a good deal. In return, they came to shop there in their droves, and the business expanded to Bath in 1985, another shop in Broadmead, Bristol, and also to Exeter and Wales.

Part of the success can be laid firmly at the feet of ad man Andy Purnell and his colleague, copywriter Chris Bradley.

The pair were just starting out at the time, and designed an ad campaign for Crazy as a concept piece for their portfolios, mainly because they were customers of the shop.

Andy says: "It was a great place to shop for jeans. In those days, like now, they were at the forefront of fashion and it was somewhere you could buy a pair of Levi's for ?15, which was fantastic.

There was a really good vibe about it. They played the right sort of music. It was a real cool clubby atmosphere, run by young people."

Coincidentally, the concept campaign came to the attention of a headhunter who happened to know Orange, and liked their ideas so much the pair had soon been put in touch with her and Mike and were designing their adverts for real.

Andy, who is now Advertising Art Director for Bristol-based integrated marketing company BCLO, says: "We were quite anarchic. It was at the time of Thatcher's government and there was a lot of misery and anti-Thatcherism. We were Smiths fans and old punk rockers.

The first ad was aboutt came up with the line: "You don't have to cut public spending to afford your favourite jeans.

"Then we thought, shall we really push the boat out, so we did a really cheap cut-and-paste job and found a shot of a sexy model with a great figure, and stuck Maggie Thatcher's head on it.

"It was really striking stuff at the time because you were supposed to seek the permission of famous people to use their image and what we did was really taboo, especially for a small shop in

Acrobatics is one of the most ancient entertainment art forms for Chinese people. But many feel that such entertainment is outdated in the face of the quickening pace of Shanghai's modern cosmopolitan life.
A recent mega production boasting a budget of over 30 million yuan (US$3.7 million), however, hopes to change that notion.
The multimedia production entitled "ERA-Intersection of Time" (ERA) is touted as an unprecedented cutting-edge collaboration. For the first time, Shanghai Media Group, China Arts and Entertainment Group and Shanghai Circus World jointly invested in the project.
The production will be a regular performance in Shanghai Circus World, the city's largest venue for acrobatics performance, according to China Arts and Entertainment Group. The first performance season will end on November 18.
The three major organizers have invited experts from the world-leading circus troupe "Le Cirque du Soleil" to produce the spellbinding show that hopes to reinvent traditional Chinese acrobatics.

The multimedia production entitled "ERA-Intersection of Time" (ERA) is now showing at Shanghai Circus World.
"China has entered a dynamic period of development," said Zhang Yu, president of China Arts and Entertainment Group. "It is at the crossroads between its glorious history and its promising future. We hope by combining the use of multimedia technology with traditional Chinese acrobatic arts, music and props, ERA is redefining the Asian formula of acrobatics and performing arts."
He noted that's also the major reason they named the production "ERA," suggesting the changing of the times. Besides acrobatics, it also refers to Shanghai's past, present and future.
Audience response
Doubts remain on whether such a long-running production would attract enough spectators to make it profitable.
But the audience reaction on the world premiere of the production on September 28 may prove the naysayers wrong.
"ERA has totally changed my impression of acrobatic performances," said Xu Xiaobo, a white-collar employee of a foreign-funded company.
Previously, Xu thought the acrobatic performance would only attract children and foreign visitors who are not familiar with Chinese acrobatics.
"But when I saw two acrobats one male and one female who were dangling from the roof with silks dancing in the air with a variety of graceful movements, I was mesmerized."
Xu said she would bring her boyfriend to watch the performance for a second time, as she wants to relive the romantic moments in the production.
Zhang, the president of China Arts and Entertainment Group, was not surprised about the warm response to the show.
"That is the exact feedback we have anticipated to obtain," he said, smiling proudly.
As a highly successful performance agent, Zhang pointed out that the name "ERA" is of high commercial value.
"Era is very simple and consequently easy to remember," he added. "And after all, it is good for the related merchandise of the show, such as T-shirts, ties, and other souvenirs."
Zhang emphasized that the commercial value can only be realized on the solid basis of a fine production with high artistic merit.
"The T-shirts of 'River Dance' are hot on sale and that is because the Irish tap dance production is very beautiful and touching," Zhang said.
Artistic value
To attain a high artistic value, the major organizers decided to invite renowned Canadian director Erick Villeneuve and choreographer Debra Brown and their teams.
"Villeneuve and Brown are both leaders in their respective work fields around the world," said Zong Ming, an official of Shanghai Media Group.
Villeneuve's excellence and the originality in his work are highly acclaimed in Canada and worldwide.
With more than 20 years of experience, he had created new and unique projection techniques, allowing him to change the use of the scenic environment.
Brown has won numerous awards like the Emmy Award for the work she did on the 74th annual Academy Awards, the prestigious Golden Clown at the 23rd World Circus Festival, and the Bob Fosse Innovative Choreography Award for her ongoing work with the world-renowned "Le Cirque du Soleil."
Villeneuve hopes that the audience will not only be amazed by the top Chinese acrobats' control and precision. He wants people to also be enchanted by the world that is created through the innovative use of advanced technologies, lighting and sound effects as well as elaborate costumes and original music.
A live band performs music by renowned composer and guitarist Michel Cusson solely written for ERA.
"Music is very important for a grand production like ERA," Cusson said, adding that he thinks music and production go together like salt and a dish.
After she saw the premiere, Annouk Ruffo Leduc, a Canadian executive working in Shanghai, said that the music is in perfect harmony wi