Forum for Dance Majors

frazzled1
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:23:00 +0000

Bumping this up - we dance parents out here would sure love a forum, moderators (batting eyelashes charmingly). As would the dancers, I imagine. Please?

Not that I’m two months late or anything, but to answer MomOf3Stars - my d never considered a professional career, so she never thought about auditioning instead of college. We do know a few dancers who did this - after a few years, most of them are back in school, though I believe they’d say that the company experience was a valuable one for them. Of those who’ve gone back to school, most are in dance programs, though one very talented dancer has switched tracks and is one of the older class members in a very prestigious non-dance program.

We know three or four dancers from my daughter’s studio who are still dancing with companies and will probably pursue college once that part of their careers is over. Also one dancer who started out in college, was cast in her first Broadway show at an open cattle call 2 weeks after the first semester started, rather sensibly left school, and has been constantly employed as a professional dancer for the past 7 years. So all things are possible in dance - even steady employment.