E5 Echo is a year-round performance troupe for dedicated young movement artists. This is not a recreational program. It is a developmental environment that demands physical readiness, personal accountability, and genuine team orientation.
The Program
The Commitment
Echo athletes train approximately 8 hours per week across four days. They perform publicly and travel as a group. This is a serious developmental environment — not a drop-in experience. Families who join Echo commit to the full cycle, and Echo commits back to them with structured coaching, performance opportunities, and genuine growth.
What We Build
Echo develops three things in every athlete: physical excellence across aerial, tumbling, and movement disciplines — artistic expression that is genuinely personal, not performed for the panel — and team character that puts group success before individual recognition. The audition is designed to assess all three equally.
Annual Audition
Minimum Age
9 years old
Format
Live, single day
Frequency
Once per year
Results delivered by
Lexee, Head Coach
Prepare and perform an original routine of up to 2 minutes. Your routine can feature any movement discipline — aerial, tumbling, parkour, dance, martial arts, or any combination. It does not need to be aerial-based. The panel is not looking for the most technically difficult routine. They are looking for three things:
Skill
Are the movements you choose performed with intention, control, and clean technique? Are your legs straight? Are your toes pointed?
Creativity
Does your routine reflect a personal point of view? Is there shape and flow? Does it feel like yours?
Performance Confidence
Can you hold the space? A confident 45 seconds will always outperform a nervous 2 minutes. Echo athletes perform for audiences.
All nine skills below are required of every auditionee — regardless of primary discipline. Echo athletes train aerial conditioning as a group, and these benchmarks ensure no one enters the program at a deficit that puts them or their teammates at risk. Each is a hard gate — there are no partial passes.
Aerial and Strength
Tumbling and Ground
The panel will have a short conversation with you. There are no trick questions. They are looking for genuine evidence that you are ready for a team environment — not perfection in any of these qualities, but honest demonstration of all four:
Coachability
Can you receive corrections and act on them, even when it is hard to hear?
Commitment
Do you show up consistently and follow through on what you say you will do?
Team Orientation
Can you put the group's success before your individual recognition?
Performance Courage
Can you step into discomfort and stay present — on stage and in training?
Audition Results
Meets all nine hard gates and demonstrates readiness across all four character criteria. Welcome to the troupe.
Results delivered by Lexee directly following audition day.
Character fit is evident but one or more hard gate skills were not met. Specific physical targets are identified and a development path is assigned.
A re-audition window is set. A coach is assigned to track progress toward the specific gaps identified.
Physical skills may be sufficient but the candidate is not yet ready for the team environment Echo requires. A clear development path is provided.
This is not a permanent outcome. It is an honest assessment with a concrete way forward.
Auditions are held once per year. Reach out to learn when the next audition cycle opens and what your student should be working toward to prepare.
Ask about the next audition →Not ready for Echo yet? NinFit, Tx3, and Aerial Silks are where every Echo athlete started. The skills gate is achievable — it just takes consistent training.
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