Cardinal Dance Company (CDC)

Have you ever enjoyed dancing all the time that you just want to dance every single day without stopping? If you want to create your own dance routines or want to continue to have unlimited dancing schools, then Whittier High School’s Cardinal Dance Company club is the place to start. Aside from all of Whittier High School’s Visual and Performing Arts courses made for students with specific and different types of skills and fine arts, Cardinal Dance Company is a well-known dance club that all interested students from 9-12 are welcomed to come up with their own dance routines and perform them. This club is advised for students to be creative and make their own artistic dance choreography. The main reason about why this club is in effect is because it is openly offered to students who want to consider sharing their artistic skills as a VAPA student or not as a VAPA student. CDC is an after school club that occurs from 3 pm-5 pm every Tuesday. Some hours may vary or add on more depending on the instructor’s timetable.

Here Are Some Steps Of Becoming A Cardinal Dance Company Member,

1. The Start Of The Audition: At the start of the Audition, students will warm up and do stretching exercises before participating in any dance routines.At the start of the Audition, students will warm up and do stretching exercises before participating in any dance routines.
2. Getting To Know Your Dance Peers: The adviser, or a student will start at the beginning of the dance piece, then depending on the amount of dancers wanted in a certain dance piece, a student will participate to learn the other student’s information about themselves and skills that they want to introduce.
3. The Creativity: As other dancers have the opportunity to understand each other’s skills and background, some will help add in creative dance moves from their consideration to the unfinished dance piece, and other dancers will agree and add on to the occurring dance routine.
4. Practice Makes Perfect: After finishing up the dance routine that the advisor/ or student has created for all, students in each group will be able to rehearse their artistic moves with one another and perform them in front of the other observing dancers.
5. Constructive Criticism: After the performance of each Dancer, everyone needs to give/receive feedback. A Dancer will give the other student constructive criticism to help let them know what part of the dance went well with the artistic moves, (what was the observer’s favorite moment of the dance piece) and what needs work, (help them build confidence in themselves, tell them what they need to consider when they perform next time, help them rebuild their dance piece with more strong moves so they could work on practicing more).
6. Students Will Create Multiple Dance Routines: After the given feedback and finished work, the dancers are expected to create more than one dance piece with either more dancers or they can create a solo dance piece. Solo dance pieces give you more time to think and become creative and add any dance moves you want. Solos can seem pretty timid and apprehensive when you perform them in front of the audience, but if you’re observing the Solo, you can definitely say that solos are pretty easy to have your own Solo performance every dance show.
7. Overall, CDC Auditions come around in the fall, and throughout the school year. New and expected auditions might be in effect in January, when next semester begins.
8. CDC dancers are advised to perform their dance pieces during Assemblies and Dance Shows in May. – Leilani H.