by Gavin Larsen | Mar 13, 2024 | Audition Advice, Career, Pointe+
Increasingly, ballet companies are moving away from traditional open-call auditions. Instead, many prefer for dancers to submit a video reel, photos, and resumé, either via email or through an online portal, in order to be considered for an in-person audition. But...
by Gavin Larsen | Jan 4, 2024 | Audition Advice, Pointe+, Summer Study, Training
For many dancers, auditions feel inherently nerve-racking. But auditioning for summer intensives, which often requires taking class at unfamiliar studios with dancers who appear stronger, might elicit a heightened sense of intimidation. Fixating on others’...
by Hannah Foster | Dec 22, 2023 | Pointe+, Summer Study, Training
At this time of year, your computer screen might be open to a million tabs as you research summer intensives. Nowadays there are more choices than ever: six-week sessions, two-week sessions, intensives with performance elements, training-only intensives,...
by Camila Rodrigues | Oct 18, 2023 | Audition Advice, Career, Pointe+
As performance seasons begin, we often hear about the new dancers joining companies and others who got big promotions. But nobody talks about those dancers who find themselves without a contract—without a place to be, to train, to dance, and to perform. During my...
by Gavin Larsen | Apr 28, 2023 | Pointe+, Training
In her early teens, Claire Solis was a top student in her small school in upstate New York, and she had big ambitions. “There was never a doubt in my mind that I was going to be a principal dancer,” she remembers. Confident in how her future would play out, she...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 24, 2023 | Audition Advice, Pointe+, Training
Last month, at the ADC | IBC finals in St. Petersburg, Florida, I headed to a large hotel ballroom to observe the competition’s company audition class, the second held that week. The room was packed with teenage dancers, most of them approaching their high school...
by Hannah Foster | Mar 16, 2023 | Audition Advice, Career, Pointe+
Rebecca Haw describes the moment, shortly after a director change at her former company, when she realized her job was at risk: “Within a few short weeks I had lost all of my roles. I had been demoted. I had gone from Queen of the Dryads to covering corps of Dryads.”...
by Gavin Larsen | Mar 10, 2023 | Audition Advice, Career, Pointe+
Kayla DeGaray remembers the frustration vividly. “I’d come out of class and anxiously refresh my email over and over, just hoping something would come through,” she says, recalling her intense audition season as a senior at Butler University. “But most of the time,...