Professional ballerina?

Question:what are the chances of being a professional ballerina?
and what should you be doing now to achieve that?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: what are the chances of being a professional ballerina?
and what should you be doing now to achieve that?

The chances of girls becoming professional ballet dancers is less than boys becoming professional football players. Think of all the local high schools with football teams and all the guys who play on them, and then compare that with the number of players in the AFL and NFL. Now think of all the ballet studios and all the girls who dance at them and compare that with the number of professional ballet companies. Add to those comparisons the fact that football takes place right where students go to school, it's subsidized, and the recruiters come to the schools to discover talent. Now CONTRAST that with the fact that only a tiny handful of public schools offer pre-professional (quality) ballet training, such that it costs aspiring ballet dancers thousands and thousands of dollars a year to receive the kind of training they need. AND THEN it costs thousands more dollars to travel the country to audition for jobs or participate in national ballet competitions where you might get noticed by company directors. So the bottom line is that the chances of the typical female ballet student becoming professional are very, very tiny. (The chances for male ballet dancers is totally different.)

What you should be doing now to increase your chances of becoming a professional ballet dancer is attend a ballet company-affiliated dance school in their pre-professional track where high school aged dancers are in classes for at least 20 hours a week during the school year, plus over 35 hours a week in the summer. If you stay at a local dance studio with a teacher who never danced professionally as a full member of a dance company, you have absolutely no chance at all of becoming a professional ballet dancer. It won't matter how much you practice or how dedicated you are. You simply can't advance higher in ballet than those who teach you.

depends when u started dancing, how good u r at it, make sure u have ur you shaneas and peiroets down on your point shoes. u hav to Ase all the little things, batmans, splits, leaps, patebureas, etc. its hard im working toward it too. good luck!!

wow you need to be on pointe by the age of 15, and you need to be in a very motivated and prestigious dance academy. devote 4-5 days a week to ballet/technique. go watch ballets to get work on it. take outside teqnique stuff. and make sure your skinny :) becase they will tell you otherwise.

It's going to be extremely hard. You NEED to be going to the best of the best Dance studios, go to all of the summer intensives and get into the College's and Companies.

How many Ballet classes are you taking a week? Are you doing any exams?

I dance 6 days a week but I don't want a Ballet career.

Hope this helps :) Good Luck with everything

Well it all depends what you consider a professional ballerina! If you consider my job (doing ballet shows all over the world) a pro ballerina then very slim chances sorry to say! I started dancing when I was 2 and haven't stopped ballet since. I did ballet all of my life. Now I am in shows every where. Honestly it is like a dream come true! You wouldn't believe it. All little girls wanna grow up and be a professional when they are little (like I did) but many end up growing out of that stage. Well I never did. Which is why I believe I am where I am now! I mean, to get this, you have to want it more than you have ever wanted anything in your life! You have to have total dedication. You have practice EVERYDAY no joke! I would say you have to start young. So if you didn't chances are that you won't get very far. Good Luck!