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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15:57, your information of the dance world sounds very dated.

I think you would be very surprised at how much things have evolved.

For example, most non ballet companies don't want 17 & 18 year olds right out of high school. They prefer 20-somethings.

Many dancers with degrees can make a nice living for a kid out of college perfoming with a company and then teaching at night/weekends/breaks.

Dance is not limited to the ballet world you grew up in back in the day.[/quote]

I work in the ballet world right now. Today. I work with the best of the best. Today.  I see how the corps are treated right now. Today. No, my information isn't dated. No I don't have a niece who dances in Sacramento and just loves it...
I work with dancers at the Kirov, Bolshoi, POB, ABT...
I also work with commercial dancers, so my insight is not limited to the ballet world. 
Asking whether OP is comfortable with her daughter dancing first, and attending college second is a very salient question and a conversation worth having. 
Here in DCUM land people are worried about top schools and prestigious degrees. That's great for your STEM kid. It's ok to take a different path, if you've a different kind of kid. College isn't going anywhere. Dance careers are short.

As a person who works in the arts, I will tell you it's a difficult life in some ways. If you are going to be working evenings, weekends,and all holidays, you will want some decent return on investment. Yes, you can dance with small companies and make very little and scrape by. You can do many things, but it gets old. 
What kind of dancer does your dd want to be? There isn't a wrong answer. What is fulfilling to one person, might not be to the next. Dancing in small companies and teaching might be your dd's dream. If so, college might be the right answer. Look at three companies she admires and read the bios. 
Did they go to west va? Oklahoma? No mention of college?
But the first question is ...

What kind of dancer does she want to be?
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