Sunday, September 19th from 9:00am-2:45pm
Oklahoma City University
2501 N Blackwelder Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73106 *navigates you to campus
Henry J Freede Wellness Center (on 27th between Kentucky and Florida Avenue)
Innovative Choreography is thrilled to be partnering with Oklahoma City University to bring a collegiate dance combine to Oklahoma for the first time. Colleges and universities from the midwest will be in attendance to recruit and represent their programs. For a complete and updated list of colleges and universities involved, please visit
https://www.innovativechoreography.com/innovative-college-combine.
Innovative Choreography faculty members will teach technique, a pom sideline, a hip hop combination, and a review a jazz combination (you will receive the jazz choreography ahead of time). Participants will have an opportunity to demonstrate each routine for the collegiate coaches. Throughout the day, dancers will interact with coaches through scheduled mingle sessions. Additionally, all participants will be provided a list of coaches and contact information. Likewise, all coaches will be provided a list of participants and contact information. Seniors will have an optional opportunity to stay at the end of the Combine for Innovative Choreography staff members to record each of the three combinations. Videos will then be complied and shared with the senior as well as all college coaches.
Once you navigate to the Oklahoma City University Campus, find the Henry J Freede Wellness Center on 27th between Kentucky and Florida Avenue. Dancers are encouraged to wear formed-fitting dance attire (tanks, sports bras, etc) and come game day ready! We will have each grade level wear a different color top to distinguish their age:
Freshmen - Grey
Sophomores - Grey
Juniors - Black
Seniors & Current College Students - any color top (please avoid grey and black)
Please pack a lunch, snacks, and water!
On Wednesday, September 8th, 1.5 weeks prior to the Innovative College Combine, we will share a video of the jazz choreography with all participants. Dancers are encouraged to learn it and come ready to perform. Technique, pom sideline, and hip hop choreography will all be taught live, in-person at the Combine on September 19th.
All colleges/universities will be provided with a table.
All high school dancers will receive feedback from a collegiate dancer and/or Innovative Staffer! We hope this addition will provide even more education, support, and encouragement to every dancer in attendance. We need your help in order to make this happen. Many colleges bring current dancers with them. On the registration form, we will ask if we can “borrow” your dancers at one point during the day to help provide feedback to the high school attendees.
If your college dancers are not helping us with providing feedback to the high school dancers, we invite them to take any class they want! We do need waivers from them on file before they can participate (see link below for the Innovative Choreography waiver). Feel free to take choreography back to your schools to use at games/performances! We would LOVE for you to tag us in social media posts when/if you perform any of our routines.
To encourage dancers to visit all college recruiting booths, we would like to do a drawing at the end of the day. All high school dancers will be given paper with their names on it. As they visit the college tables, they will drop off a piece of paper in the drawing on each table. We ask that you bring something representing your college/university/team to be given away in the drawing. Ideas include: school or team shirt, swag, free/discounted admission to a dance clinic, etc. Drawings will occur during the Combine Wrap Up at the end of the day.
