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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the endgame with competitive dance for kids? Keeping it up through HS to get a scholarship? Julliard? Why would anyone go this route vs studying at a studio and doing non-competitive performances once in a while? So many questions because I am not a "dance mom." With youth travel sports the endgame is recruitment.[/quote]

Competitive dancers are typically unemployable by casting agents due to lack of technical skill and odd facial expressions fostered in the comp scene.  A few will land jobs in the lesser cruielines. A couple might go on to college admission in the terrible no audition dance programs like UMD. Still will not get a job in dance so do not waste you $ on a dance major at UMD.  In fact, don't send your kids to a school that has teachers from there.  It's a sign of a weak program and they don't know what they don't know.

A performance based program with solid technical training will get a student much farther.

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So much further, meaning what? Professional athletes at least make buckets of money.  Professional dancers are sharing an apartment in NYC with several others. Avg salary for a professional dancer is 50k[/quote]

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