by Gavin Larsen | May 31, 2021 | Audition Advice, Training
Summer intensives have long served as extended audition periods for trainee and second company positions, allowing pre-professional dancers a chance to prove themselves and to get to know artistic staff. But compared to pre-COVID years, limited enrollment at summer...
by Claudia Bauer | Dec 13, 2020 | Audition Advice, Summer Intensive Survival, Summer Intensives, Summer Study, Training
It’s that time of year again—summer intensive audition season. But as the ballet world continues to adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic, what are schools planning for summer programs? What will auditions be like, and what are schools expecting of dancers?...
by Claudia Bauer | Aug 17, 2020 | Audition Advice, Career, Instagram, Training
The COVID-19 pandemic may have paused life as we know it, but the ballet world is still turning. Schools and companies are finding ways to move forward, and this spring many accepted full-time students, awarded scholarships and hired artists via online auditions....
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 20, 2018 | Audition Advice, Career, Trending
Have you ever attended an audition and wished that you knew what the director was looking for? We’ve rounded up some of our favorite quotes from our Director’s Notes column over the past few years to give you a deeper glimpse into the minds of 10 artistic...
by Kathleen McGuire | Mar 8, 2018 | Audition Advice, Career
Julia Erickson grew up training at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Once she’d spent some time in the professional division, she started feeling like a member of the company. She performed with PNB extensively, even touring with them to London, Scotland,...
by Amy Brandt | Feb 18, 2016 | Summer Intensive Survival, Summer Intensives, Training
As summer intensive audition season starts up, I’ve been reminiscing about my own experience as a young dancer—way back in 1993—and how challenging it was to navigate. In fact, I think it’s safe to say that my first summer program audition was...
by Kathleen McGuire | Feb 1, 2015 | Audition Advice, Career
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2015 issue of Pointe. With so many talented dancers competing for so few company jobs, it sometimes feels like a struggle just to be seen. Rather than pinning a number to their chest, most dancers would prefer to...
by Amy Brandt | Jan 23, 2013 | Audition Advice, Career
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2013 issue of Pointe. Many years ago, a director of a company I was auditioning for approached me as I was taking off my pointe shoes and struck up a conversation. I felt nervous and shy, so I let him ask all the...