Saturday, August 20, 2011
Should I switch to an arts school for dance senior year?
I'm a junior right now at a regular high school and I dance 5 days a week both with my small studio and also with a community ballet program, but I still feel like I'm not getting enough dance training because I want to attend either a college dance program or a conservatory after high school, and then maybe join a ballet company or contemporary, broadway, modern, etc, I don't know yet. All I know is I keep feeling like I'm getting nowhere at my high school, I'm really into the arts and this school is known for its athletics, people are mean and I don't really fit in that well. I mean yeah I have some friends and stuff, but I don't really have a sense of belonging or anything and don't really wanna go there next year because I'm quiet around people I don't know and I don't wanna be the girl nobody invites to beach week or any big senior parties, or doesn't get asked to senior prom. And if I switched schools it would be to the UNC school of the arts, hopefully the ballet program if I get in and if not maybe I'll see if I can do contemporary. I think that going there for senior year would really help me decide if I wanna go there for college or not and I would get the best dance training ever, and I'd get to be in their Nutcracker, which is the one that everyone in town goes to see, normally I have to tell people that I'm in the Nutcracker, but not the school of the arts one, a smaller(and crappier) version. I know it'd be kinda different switching schools just for the last year since everyone else there my age probably has known each other for years and years and they're all ridiculously great dancers who have been to intensives at SAB and other places like that and I'm not up to their level right now but I wouldn't be auditioning until either February or April of next year, so I have time to prepare for the audition and everything. And if I got in I already live in Winston-Salem so I could commute there and back easily. Just wondering what other dancers think, if I should stick it out at my high school or risk it all going somewhere new where I don't know hardly anyone. Also any tips on preparing for the audition would be welcome too.
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