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[quote=Anonymous]Metropolitan Ballet has dramatically changed this year under new leadership.  So it is hard to answer your question.  It always was a school that retained dancers through senior year.  Girls in their highest division had danced together for years and were a tight knit, supportive cohort of dancers who mostly enjoyed one another and cheered one another on. It also produced several gifted dancers who left during the high school years to pursue training at Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, and Oklahoma City.  This year, class times have been shortened so classes start at 3:45 instead of 3:15.  Next year, classes will not begin until 4:00pm.  The ending time is the same as before.  Shorter class times reduce a dancer’s stamina and training opportunities.  The spring performance has been a full length ballet for a long time - this year was “excerpts from Don Q” .  Some younger dancers had no actual dancing in the performance - they stood on the side of the stage and moved their arms.  It was sad. The audience was half full for the excepts from Don Q run. This past Nutcracker the new AD hired a professional to dance Sugarplum for most of the full length performances rather than let the students have the challenge of performing the role every show.  MBT productions have long been student productions but that doesn’t seem to be a guarantee anymore.   As for having a pre-pro level - don’t be fooled, the majority of upper level dancers are in it.  It doesn’t mean much to be “pre-pro” at MBT.  [/quote]

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