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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at[b] collegiate jazz dance teams [/b]on youtube. There are lots of incredible routines that don't require the stripper look. Find a studio that focuses on these. I'm horrified that I once let my kindergartner wear fishnet hose, though there were no raunchy moves in the dance routine.
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Actually, [b]those dancers are more likely to have come from competition studios than from traditional conservatory dance training.[/b]  The colleges just require them to wear more clothes.[/quote]

See the bolded type. Maybe it was your experience or your kid's experience of college dance but it's not universally true, or even necessarily "more likely." I know quite a few kids doing dance teams at colleges right now, about five, and all came out of dance studios that weren't competition studios. They studied jazz for as many years as they studied ballet and never were on any competitive team. None was on a high school dance team either, because there was not time to do that plus their studio classes and performances.

If by "conservatory" you're thinking of strictly ballet conservatories, there aren't that many all-ballet-and-nothing-else schools (yes, those do exist but are pretty rarified); even if they do mostly ballet, studios tend to offer other forms of dance both for variety and so they can frankly make some income.

Lots of assumptions on this thread about what is and isn't taught at studios/schools/conservatories. [/quote]

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