Auditions and Portfolio Review

Dance Student

Thank you for your interest in the Savannah State University Visual & Performing Arts Program. Students may audition or submit a portfolio in-person or virtually by submitting a digital portfolio.

In-person auditions are held during Open Campus Days or during your first semester as a declared Visual and Performing Arts Major in the Arts Forum class. To schedule an in-person audition during Open Campus Day please click on the link next to the date.

If you would like to audition or have your art portfolio reviewed outside of Open Campus, but before your first semester at Savannah State, and would like to set up an in-person audition or review, please contact arts@savannahstate.edu

If you are only auditioning for University Bands, or University Chorale and not planning on majoring in Visual and Performing Arts then please contact band@savannahstate.edu or chorale@savannahstate.edu

In-Person Auditions and Portfolio Review Dates:

Auditions and Portfolio Reviews at Open Campus Day: March 2023 (link coming soon)

Digital Audition and Portfolio Submission:

Prospective students can also submit their audition online. Simply email a link to your online audition to arts@savannahstate.edu . Online auditions should contain clear video and audio and follow the audition guidelines below. For Music and Performing Arts we recommend that you use a video hosting site like YouTube or Vimeo. For Studio Art we recommend sharing a drop box link with your images. Please be sure to label your email subject line with your First and Last Name, Concentration, and the first semester you will be attending (e.g. Fall 20xx).

Audition/Portfolio Requirements:

Dance (Performing Arts):

Students may submit one performance sample of your own dancing. This may be performance in the work of others or your own work. The total length of the performance cannot exceed seven minutes. All forms of dance are welcome, including: modern, ballet, jazz, hip hop, social, ballroom, and global dance forms, i.e. Asian and Southeast Asian, African, African Diaspora, Latin American and South American and indigenous forms.

Theatre (Performing Arts):

Applicants are required to prepare a monologue under two to three minutes long. Monologues can be from a contemporary play with a character close in age to you or a monologue from the classics, such as a Shakespearean monologue or excerpt from a Greek or Roman work. In addition, students may prepare a song from a musical.

Studio Art:

Students may submit one Fine Art portfolio in the following media: Painting, Drawing & Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture, and Video, Digital Media & Electronic Art. Prepare a 10-piece portfolio. Work may include pieces from High School, or work created outside of class, and work that was created at the college level. The work must be presented in a physical portfolio case.

Music Education or Performance:

Students may submit one Music portfolio in the following categories: Instrumentalists, or Vocalists.

Vocalists:

Submit one or two pieces. If the repertoire is from the Western classical tradition, submissions may be in more than one language.
Students may perform unaccompanied or with recording accompaniment playing in the background. No overlays will be accepted.
Submissions must be limited to one voice area (Western classical and musical theater may go together).

Instrumentalists:

two to three minute prepared solo, and all 12 major scales
Percussionists should include all rudiments. They should call out each rudiment before being played.

Ready to start my career in the Arts!