"Winter
Summer Intensive Auditions"
Winter should be for hibernation.
For every hour spent on Nutcracker, one should have one hour of sleep in hibernation mode.
However, now that there is one teenager on the career track for ballet, Summer Intensives have become very important.
This past winter break was spent driving back and forth to another city to take daily ballet classes in order to perfect techniques for try-outs for Summer Intensives.
January is spent making sure that ballet pose pictures and head shots are done, forms filled out, choosing a location and time frame, and then auditioning.
And, all of this on top of
"Winter
Spring Performance Season"
It's my understanding that ballet companies must have at least two paid performances per year in order to keep their tax exempt status.
So, every January begins the preparations for a Spring Performance at the beginning of April.
Auditions and new dances to learn.
Costumes and props to make.
However, unlike Nutcracker where there are over a hundred participants on stage from age seven to seasoned adults, there are just company members from age eleven to adults.
My favorite part about Spring Performance is that our company has Fairy Tale based ballets.
It's so much fun to sit in the audience dressed like a princess, including a tiara, with all of the little princesses and princes in awe of the ballet dancers.
Summer Intensive Auditions"
Winter should be for hibernation.
For every hour spent on Nutcracker, one should have one hour of sleep in hibernation mode.
However, now that there is one teenager on the career track for ballet, Summer Intensives have become very important.
This past winter break was spent driving back and forth to another city to take daily ballet classes in order to perfect techniques for try-outs for Summer Intensives.
January is spent making sure that ballet pose pictures and head shots are done, forms filled out, choosing a location and time frame, and then auditioning.
And, all of this on top of
"Winter
Spring Performance Season"
It's my understanding that ballet companies must have at least two paid performances per year in order to keep their tax exempt status.
So, every January begins the preparations for a Spring Performance at the beginning of April.
Auditions and new dances to learn.
Costumes and props to make.
However, unlike Nutcracker where there are over a hundred participants on stage from age seven to seasoned adults, there are just company members from age eleven to adults.
My favorite part about Spring Performance is that our company has Fairy Tale based ballets.
It's so much fun to sit in the audience dressed like a princess, including a tiara, with all of the little princesses and princes in awe of the ballet dancers.
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