I REALLY want to dance soooooo badly professionally but i dont know how to get d

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so i LOVEE tap i mean LOVEE well it just hit me that i want to be a tap dancer i mean im not bragging but i know that im good and i know that because i always get awards and i always get first overall at competitions and i really really really want to dance tap professionally the thing is is that im only 14 years old! i dont know where to start i mean i want to get my name out there!! but how! please help i have a natural drive that i really want to use!

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Hi, great question, and I'd love to help!.

Unfortunately, tap is one of those activities that although it's for the very very talented, it's mostly undiscovered!. However, that is not to say it's not applicable in many situations!. I spoke to my friend who has been a director of theater plays and a choreographer for Broadway shows for a long, long time!. He informed me that the director would rather hire a tap dancer than a regular auditioner!. For example, if two girl auditioned who looked exactly the same, sang the same, acted the same, etc!. but one tap-danced and the other didn't, he would rather hire the tap dancer!. Tap is very very applicable in a theater setting!. Take Cats, for example!. In the original broadway choreography, it was mostly tap dancing!.

Unfortunately, tap is not like ballet or hip-hop, where you can make a real career out of tap alone!. However, it would make you very very valuable in a theater situation!.

To get "discovered", you might want to take tap a few more years!. 14 is still young, and you're still growing!. Being in a professional company is hard work and may even stint your growth as a teenager emotionally and physically, as well as in the context of your education in dance!. In other words, you may not have time for much of a social life, affecting you emotionally; you may become very sore and not be able to physically handle much other than dance (we call this monoactivity syndrome in my company, but that's a completely original term lol =]); and you might not progress as a dancer as well as you might have if you had stayed in a smaller school!. What I recommend until you're about 16 or 17 is inform your tap teacher that you would like to take tap seriously and make a career out of it!. S/he will probably zone in on your technique and push you a little harder than the rest of the class!. That means more corrections; so if after that your teacher is a little rougher on you, it doesn't mean you're bad!. In fact, it means you're good!. =]

The way to get "discovered", find some auditions in your area!. Try these sites:
http://www!.usatap!.org/
http://www!.lachoreographersanddancers!.or!.!.!.
http://www!.newenglandtap!.com/
http://jazztapcenter!.com/JazzTapCenterDA!.!.!.

=] Good luck and hope I helped!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would say you should keep learning!.

I'm not stopping you from dancing professionally!.!.!. but if you rushed to the professional industry too early and find yourself less time learning, your growth will slow down and in the long-run it will only hurt your career!.

If you keep doing competitions while doing little performances now and then, sooner you'll have producers' eyes on you, and that's when your big leap begins!.

Be careful of wanting to get reputation as your drive!. It only lasts as an external motivation and won't keep you long!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If you do competitions!.!.!. get your name out there by winning!. People and teachers will sure to notice you!. also, go to auditions and take classes with the "big" LA dancers of our times!.!.!. Blake, travis!.!.!. and avoid older dancers like mia micheals because you are more likely to dance with the younger people!. also go to a college with a strong dance program!. No need to go to an artsy highschool such as oscha!. Good luck with your future endeavors!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

TRY TO TAP WITH YOUR TOP OFF!. YOU WILL MAKE A LIVING REAL QUICK!. AND YOU CAN STILL GO TO SCHOOL!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Too get your name out there!.!. you'll need to practice, hard and be devoted!.!.
Try and aim high!.!. ask your dance teacher of any other places you cud perform!.!. you need to move around!.!. perform at a concert, then at a competition, then at another concert!.!. the more different places you go the more known you'll get!.!.

Producer/ choreographers!.!. also attend these concerts, competitions!.!. they're looking out for a young talented dancer!.!. if they see you dancing confidently and having a good time!.!. they'll give you a promotion!.!. or they might give you a letter saying that they want you to perform in they're dance concerts!.!. as soon as this happens!.!. you'll get known by alot more people!.!. you'll then appear in newspapers and dance mags!.!.

you need to start NOW!!!.!.
ur never to young and never to old!.!.!!
dont b discouraged by what others say!.!. as long as you hold your head high and show!.!. the choreographers, producers!.!. you are a great tap dancer!!

Hope this helped!!
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unfortunately for girls, tap is an undiscovered career!.!.!.
I don't know of any successful tap dancers that are girls, unless they are something else first like an actor etc!.
There are TAP DOGS for the men, but they were created by their industrial boots!.

if you want to continue learning, try going to a very prestigious dance school, if you are in sydney which i dont think you are ED5 is probably the best but a step down from that is brent street!.!.
Once your in a good dance school try out for the showcase or the troupe that performs, at these prestigious dance schools concerts they always have talent scouts etc!.

another thing, is make friends in the industry, its not what you know, its who you know!Www@QuestionHome@Com