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The Business of Ballet: Shane Jewell, Oregon Ballet Theatre
Shane Jewell, executive director of Oregon Ballet Theatre, was kind enough to sit down with us to explain how ballet companies actually run as businesses. He takes us through the nonprofit structure, including what makes up the primary revenue…
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New updates: Verified Ballet School Reviews and a Better Form
For the last three years, we’ve been collecting reviews for both year-round and summer ballet training programs. And, wow, have you all stepped up! We now have over 2,500 reviews in our database. Now that we have such a large amount of data, our CTO (Brett’s husband) decided that we needed to start getting a…
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Peter Stark: When Is It Time to Leave Your Local Studio?
Peter Stark, president and director of The Rock School for Dance Education, has spent 26 years running ballet schools and knows the recruiting process from both sides of the table. We talk with him about how he evaluates students for recruitment. We…
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What It’s Really Like to Send Your Teen to Full-Time Ballet Training: Part 2
Our parent panel is back for part two, picking up right where we left off. In this half of the conversation, Erin, Sarah, and Sue cover the topics that come up most for families navigating full-time residential training: how a highly competitive…
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What It’s Really Like to Send Your Teen to Full-Time Ballet Training: Part 1
We are so excited to be publishing part 1 of this 2 part interview. It’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time. Three parents of dancers who attended some of the largest full-time training programs in North America joined us for an…
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When Your Dancer Wants to Stay For Year-Round
Welcome to the Summer Intensive season. Your kids have been in their program for a few weeks, and they’re starting to settle in. Surrounded by like-minded dancers who are driven and love ballet, your dancer is thriving. Summer programs are great training opportunities for dancers, but they also serve as an important way to recruit…
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When Your Dancer Gets Leveled Down At A Summer Intensive
Many of us have gotten that call. “I got put in a lower level and I don’t feel challenged.” What’s your first instinct? Call the school? Tell your dancer to go talk to the head of the program to negotiate a reevaluation? Or perhaps you secretly start to question your dancer’s ability? First, take a…
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Riley Weber on Ballet Influencers and Brand Ambassadorships
Listen to Ballet Help Desk ad-free on Patreon: Riley Weber is back on the podcast. Since leaving a corporate dance brand job, has been speaking more openly about how the influencer side of the dance industry actually works. In this…
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Francis Veyette: What The Heck Does Potential, Facility and Body Type REALLY Mean? A Rerelease
Listen to Ballet Help Desk ad-free on Patreon: Jenny and I are taking a much needed vacation with our families so we’re rereleasing one of our most popular episodes. We sat down with Francis Veyette, former principal dancer with Pennsylvania…
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From the Royal Ballet to K-Ballet Academy: Kenta Kura on Training Japan’s Next Generation
Listen to Ballet Help Desk ad-free on Patreon: If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve noticed: Japanese dancers are everywhere. Winning competitions, yes, but also filling the upper ranks of major ballet companies around the world. We’ve been…