How do I help my D decide whether to apply for Dance or Theatre?

sewingmom
Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:17:27 +0000

KEVP- D does sing. She would have no troubler handling chorus parts, and might one day be lead material with better coaching. She stopped voice lessons because in 11th grade the academics in her prep school were so demanding that with dance 6 days a week, theatre, and her State thespian board responisibilities time was so limited.

Thank you for the suggestions especially of specific schools. All the schools on her list so far allow her to double major but to apply to only one of the two majors during the application process. Rephrasing my question. In regards to schools that require an audition (which almost all dance programs do and some theatre programs do)

Should she attempt to apply to some schools as a theatre major and some as a dance major or just focus on one or the other.? I am concerned that being prepared to do well at both types of auditions will be very stressfull, just being fully prepared in either is very time consuming. Most schools she can only specify one or the other on the application and only audition for one or the other.

These are some of the questions she is going to ask each school, please make suggestions as to what to add to the list:

1. Do you allow Dance/Theatre double major?

2. If you are not a theatre (dance) major can you still take classes in the department, are there any restrictions.

3. Are theatre (dance) productions open to non-majors?

Thanks for the valuable help.