| my experience with college auditions (the ones with a dance component, anyway) shows me that the dancers with the ballet technique behind them are really the best prepared for the combinations. in the dance audition, you can ALWAYS tell what girls (and sometimes guys) have had ballet, and also the ones who have had only jazz. the ones with only jazz training pick up the combination and execute it fine, but usually don't have as clean lines as the ballet-trained dancers.
and by the way, in terms of tap - BoCo's dance audition this year has an OPTIONAL, very complicated (i was told by admissions) dance component. so tap CAN help, but in the auditions i've been to it's always reserved for the really experienced dancers to "show their stuff". |