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ballet question?
ok i really like ballet and i take 3 hours a week (which isn’t a lot i know) and have demi pointe shoes right now. and i started thinking i might want to do ballet as my profession but i still want to go to college to be a vet just in case i get hurt and can’t dance anymore. is that possible, to go to a dance school and go to college at the same time. because it would be cool to join the new york city ballet. all the dancers there probably have been dancing forever and probably went to a preformance arts school for high school and college but i can’t do that ( well for high school any way) so does any body have an advice. thanks in advance
I’m going to respond to your question by breaking it into parts.
1) It’s possible to go to college and dance school at the same time, but only one endeavor can be done at a serious level. You can be a full-time, non-science, liberal arts major, but any dancing you do will be more at a recreational level to keep up your past skills. If you really knock yourself out, you might be able to manage a science major, but your lab classes will allow even less time for dance classes. Conversely, you can study dance full time at a dance school, but your academic classes won’t be more than general liberal arts classes OR it will take you a very long time to complete your degree.
The schedule for a dance major at a true, performance-based, college dance program (of the kind that can lead to a performing career) is so intense – morning to night – that it’s barely possible to minor in another subject, much less major in one. The only way to fit in requirements for the academic major would be to either stretch out the dance program for 6 years or more or cram the maximum number of academic classes over the summer. Either way, your dance training will suffer because it will no longer be at the intense level needed to launch a professional performing career.
2) Members of the New York City Ballet do not get there by going to college first. At most, you might find a couple guys who dropped out of Juilliard to accept a position in the company. But of the Americans you’ll find in the company, I doubt you’ll even find any who attended a performing arts high school. They either attended SAB, which doesn’t offer an academic program, or they attended the most elite, company-affiliated dance schools where they were training about 20 hours a week at your age.
3) There are only a handful of college dance programs with a rigorous enough ballet program to prepare you to dance ballet professionally at even the smallest ballet companies. Those programs are so hard to get admitted to that, unless you’re taking dance classes at least 12 – 15 hours a week during your high school years (NOT counting rehearsals), along with attending a top summer dance intensive, you probably won’t get accepted to them.
Here are some articles for you to read about college and ballet:
“Practice, Practice, Practice. Go to College? Maybe.” New York Times, 12/21/2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/arts/dance/21danc.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
“College Classes for A.B.T. Dancers Reveal World Beyond Ballet” New York Times, 5/18/2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/arts/dance/18coll.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Organizations/L/Long%20Island%20University
“Pairing Ballet With a Bachelor’s Degree” New York Times, 11/4/07
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/arts/04kour.html
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