Reply to High School and Ballet

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "High School and Ballet"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]OP, I agree with an earlier poster--visiting the area is crucial, as is having your DD take some classes at several studios. It's so difficult to choose based just on what studios tell you. Your DD, as a dancer already, will know whether a class seems advanced enough or whether the teacher seems to have good instructional technique.

Also, find out if studios have sent students to professional company training and/or conservatory training after high school. Did the studio produce dancers who got accepted to companies? How long ago? If it's been years and years since any dancer from the pre-professional program went to a company or went to college to major in dance--then things might have changed and maybe it's less truly pre-professional.

Also, the DC-MD-VA region has notoriously awful traffic. That will affect your choices. If the choice of a studio means a horrendous work commute that affects family life or forces your DD to be doing homework in the car during very long rides to ballet--that's a serious aspect to consider. Visit and drive the route from school to dance to home, at the times of day you'd be doing it for real. You might need to compromise a bit on studio choice in order to get a better school and commute, or compromise on commute to get a preferred studio and school, etc.

To your initial question--as PPs note, school systems here can be good sbout things like "time release" programs for dancers. Schools get those kinds of requests for a few performers or athletes each year so don't let them act like ghruve never dealt with a release request before yours.  You'll need to renew that arrangement every year (at least, in most schools) and may need to be assertive with the school about it. But it's doable. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics