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[quote=Anonymous][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]

True, but some do quite well.  Full time teachers are doing well in reputable studios. Far above the public school teachers salary.   Broadway tours pay excellently.  Theme park dancers that make the switch to choreography earn high salaries.  Mandy Moore and Joey Pizzi pay their dancers and assistants exceptionally well.  Im thinking outer up and coming choreographers do too. The commercial and music artists concert circuit are fabulous work.  It's the company concert and contemporary dancers,  as well as ballet specialists that end up poor.[/quote]

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