Laker Girls Workshop
On June 28, a group of roughly 150 prospective dancers gathered for a workshop run by Laker Girls Director Lisa Estrada, with an eye towards the team’s official auditions on Saturday, July 16 at the Toyota Sports Center.
It was the second such workshop held by the Laker Girls, with the intention of giving young ladies a good idea about what to expect at auditions.
“I wish they would have had these types of things when I was a Laker Girl,” said Estrada. “It gives you more insight into the process, (particularly) if you’re just out of high school or early in college when you haven’t really had experience auditioning.”
In addition to the dancing, Estrada takes the girls through a Q & A session and offers a critique of respective performances.
“These are girls that want to learn, want to work and want to know what to expect,” she explained. “They get critiqued, and then they also get to learn from a few choreographers that actually choreograph for the team. It gets the bugs out, and is like a mock audition so that the girls know what to expect not just with the Laker Girls but really with any professional sports dance team audition.”
