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,...
by Alexandra Martin | Oct 18, 2022 | Audition Advice
Erina Tanaka, a freelance dancer based in Denver, Colorado, has been auditioning for ballet companies for the last three years. Tanaka, 24, who’s danced with Ballet Jörgen and Eugene Ballet, says that after taking class in her living room for over a year during...
by Katie Slattery | Feb 23, 2022 | Audition Advice
There are few situations more nerve-racking than auditions. With so many dancers vying for so few job openings, you need all the help you can get. That’s why, as you prepare your audition materials, you should consider having a letter of recommendation or a list of...
by Avichai Scher | Sep 13, 2021 | Audition Advice, Career
Joining a company at age 16 still carries a certain glamour, even as we’ve learned of the difficulties and stress this can cause. Conversations about making ballet more inclusive and focused on well-being are gaining momentum, but there is a group of dancers who face...
by Avichai Scher | Mar 14, 2021 | Audition Advice, Career, Company Life, Instagram, News
For ballet companies, it’s been a year of uncertainty and making it up as they go. Pivot to online content? Check. Break dancers into pods? Sure. Cancel and reschedule programming over and over? Just another day. While companies have found ways to be nimble amid...
by Rachel Caldwell | Mar 8, 2021 | Audition Advice, Career, Instagram, Training
Audition season is always nerve-racking, but tack on the added pressure of navigating a virtual audition and it’s enough to make your head spin. As more companies and universities have turned to video submissions and virtual classes to assess incoming talent,...
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 Joseph Carman | Dec 22, 2019 | Audition Advice, Career, Trending
When David Makhateli was about to graduate from the Royal Ballet School, financial difficulties hindered his ability to travel to auditions. “I thought it would have been so much easier to audition for several companies at once,” says Makhateli, who went...