college and ballet

[Anonymous]

If your daughter or son was a serious dancer through high school, but is not pursuing a dance degree, have they found a way to keep active in dance by taking classes on campus or otherwise participating in dance as a non-dance major? If so, what type of school might be best? Would a school with a strong dance program allow non-dance majors to take classes? Would it be best to go to school in a city to take classes at a local ballet school? Wondering how your child did it.

[Anonymous]

My daughter just ... went to a regular dance studio and took classes. It had nothing to do with her college.

[Anonymous]

My college had dance classes for nondance majors. My friend was a French major but took a ton of dance classes. She was amazing.

[Anonymous]

My college roommate was a physics major but did a dance minor so she could take whatever dance classes she wanted. I'm pretty sure she did the minor just so she had access to the dance department, but it might not have mattered, I don't recall (this was at W&M). She also performed with a company on campus.

My daughter's ballet school has open classes for adults, and I know a few college students who take them.

[Anonymous]

My DD's college lets students audit dance classes -- they participate, and sign up via the class registration, but don't get a credit for it. I don't have details yet as DD is starting as a freshman in a week but she has looked at the auditing option since she wants to keep dancing but doesn't plan to major or minor in it.