What It's Really Like to Send Your Teen to Full-Time Ballet Training: Part 2
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges and experiences of families sending their teens to full-time ballet training, featuring insights from a parent panel.
Listen to Ballet Help Desk ad-free on Patreon 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 environment can affect a dancer's confidence, how SAB, Houston Ballet Academy, and Canada's National Ballet School each approach annual cuts, and how the academic models differ across the three programs. The conversation also gets into the pressure dancers carry during audition season, the friendships that form in competitive training environments, and what it looks like to keep family life running when your dancer is living far from home. We close with the advice each parent would offer a family just starting this journey, and the one thing they would tell themselves on drop-off day. Learn more about full-time ballet training on our website . Links: Shop Summer Intensive Essentials Guide Buy Summer Corrections Journals Read Our Ballet School Summer & Year-Round Reviews Support Ballet Help Desk Instagram: @ BalletHelpDesk Facebook: BalletHelpDesk TikTok: @ BalletHelpDesk Music from #Uppbeat…
People in this episode
Host: Jenny Huang
Guests: Erin, Sarah, Sue
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: SAB, Houston Ballet Academy, Canada's National Ballet School
More episodes of Ballet Help Desk
- Peter Stark: When Is It Time to Leave Your Local Studio?
- What It's Really Like to Send Your Teen to Full-Time Ballet Training: Part 1
- Riley Weber on Ballet Influencers and Brand Ambassadorships
- Francis Veyette: What The Heck Does Potential, Facility and Body Type REALLY Mean? A Rerelease
- From the Royal Ballet to K-Ballet Academy: Kenta Kura on Training Japan's Next Generation
- Your Ballet Dancer Wants to Go to College. Now What?
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Ballet Help Desk podcast page.