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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ballet for 10 year old is still less than that, but will quickly go over once she hits middle school. Classes, private lessons, pointe shoes,[b] summer intensives away from home.[/b] She absolutely loves it and has a lot of natural talent so it's worth it for us.

Tennis and music lessons for other DD 8 will also be over that amount within the next few years.

Those two are thankfully balanced out by another DD 12 choosing chorus and track & field/cross-country as her preferred activities. [/quote]

Ballet mom here.  Why do you think intensives away from home are worth it?  My daughter has always done local summer intensives and outside of the fun of being away from home, I'm not sure what the benefit of going out of town for an intensive is over staying local. [/quote]

Summer intensives: I highly recommend the discussion board Ballet Talk for this topic--very knowledgeable posters and moderators.
Anyway, from what I can tell spending a lot of time around teen dancers, there are several reasons they go to summer intensives (SI)
--If they are seriously considering a pro career, SI are an opportunity to see how you stack up against other dancers from other schools, to be exposed to different teachers and styles of ballet, and possibly to test-drive the idea of moving to a residential program.

--If they are not seriously considering a career (or even not at all), SI are also a form of specialty sleep-away camp, and many dancers enjoy them for the same reasons as above: different teachers and styles, etc.

Of course a solid local program is also good and fine for the summer--it is just more of the same.
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Except we get a hotel nearby as our child is young, the specialty sports camp is about the same as a local and cheaper than most overnights (if we did overnight).  The coaching staff are college level, not the basic coaching we get in year round practice and they even bring in olympians which is really cool. I don't expect my kid to become a college athlete but he really enjoys it, we can afford it as we make it a priority and I'd rather do a speciality camp vs. a general one.[/quote]

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