How long has everyone been studying singing, dancing, and acting?

[Awesome]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 9:03pm

just wondering b/c i've newly become interested in it, & i'm about 98% sure that it's too late to start learning how to sing dance & act from scratch.

however, i thought i'd ask how many years other people have been at it, & how long everyone thinks is needed before auditioning for broadway.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 9:08pm

It's never too late to start training. As for how long before auditioning for Broadway... completely your call. Whenever you feel you are ready.

[astonishing1985]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 9:12pm

I started dance lessons when I was 3, so 18 years.
Started singing in choirs when I was 4
Violin when I was 4
And acting lessons when I was 8

Go for it, awesome! Start singing lessons and dancing. Just start with beginner ballet and go from there. It's never too late to start. Just stay focused and you can do it!

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 9:33pm

I started dancing when I was 8, I started singing when I was 13, and I've never really taken an acting class or anything, but my first play was when I was 14. It's never too late to start. A girl I know has been singing all her life, but she never learned to dance. Now she wants to do Broadway and she took her first dance class about 3 months ago. Don't give up. Reach for your dreams!

[lilprima2b]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 10:56pm

I started dancing when I was 12 and I'll be in the top level at my school (out of seven levels) next year, and if I was still at my studio, I would be in the top ballet class. Don't worry about starting late.

(And I've been singing since I was 12 or 13, and I've never had formal acting training, which is probably why I suck.)

[leap_of_moo]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 12:57am

I've been studying acting for about two years. I haven't studied dance yet, but I'm looking, and I did 7 years of choir at school until a bad teacher made me dislike her class enough to drop it. Now I'm looking for singing lessons.

[Awesome]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 1:12am

What would you recommend for dance studying? like for broadway, what's the best style to become an "expert" in? ballet, jazz, tap?

[King Stevos]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 1:43am

studying singing and acting for 12 years now... sheesh... I wish I were good, that's a lot of work.. but the dance... uhh four years now.

[astonishing1985]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 8:25am

awesome, start with ballet and tap. Do jazz when you've finished about a year of ballet.
Ballet is good for the technique.

Updated On: 5/1/06 at 08:25 AM

[skatergal99]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 9:14am

I've danced for about 8 1/2 years which was mostly ballet, took piano for 3 yrs, had vocal training for 1 1/2 years, but sang all my life, just not formally. I've been acting pretty much all my life...it started out with backyard productions and I had on and off acting classes. Now I'm taking lessons with a coach..mostly to help me with auditon stuff.

It's never too late to start training, just believe and trust in yourself. Before you know it you'll be lighting up the Broadway stage!! I wish you the best!

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 11:31am

Ive been singing for sixteen years and acting for 9. Ive danced for 5

[jaesdare]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 1:44pm

I've been dancing for 15 years... acting formally 11 years... and singing with a teacher for 7 years...
definetely start with ballet, that is the basis for all forms of dance and probably the most important if you had to choose one form of dance. Then you should take jazz, and then tap.
I would say that classical training isn't the most important at this stage, so you could go straight to musical theatre singing... and you can taking any acting classes, as many as you can, at your local studio.

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 5:01pm

I'm 13 and I really want to start dance but the only dance offered around here is like hiphop to rap music, not exactly Broadway style.

[jaesdare]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 5:14pm

actually alot of ballet dancers take hip hop to loosen up...that would be interesting to start with hip hop it teaches you to be in synch with the music and to feel the music and to not be up tight...so if that's all you have access to you should do it

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 6:48pm

This is kind of random but here goes. I do a lot of Jazz and Theatre Jazz. My P.E. unit right now is African dance, and it is AMAZING the influence that African clearly had on Jazz, and I LOVE the class, so now I'm looking for a good African dance class. There's is so much energy involved, it's so great.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 7:59pm

Dance- not totally consistently, but since I was almost 2. altogether, about 12 years. (3 years off)

Singing- I started in choir at my sumemr camp when I was 13. I'm looking into taking lessons now.

Acting- I've never taken a class, but my first school play (that I remember) was when I was 7. So, 10 years.

[MattSingsAlot]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 8:04pm

Six years of voice
Four of acting
No dance!

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 5/1/06 at 8:26pm

eight years of dance
about a year or so of voice (I'm just starting out)
I've never had any formal acting training. I mean I've taken classes...but everything they taught me I already knew. Since my first show was when I was eight, seven years I guess.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 2:12am

Started everything as a High School Freshman, so about 4 years.

[jaesdare]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 12:37pm

aspiringactress i've taken a lot of african dance too...it's pretty much awesome...yeah jazz and hip hop and ragtime all came from original african dancing, like all the dances you see from the twenties (charleston, grizzly, etc.,) originate from african dance. if you want some more really interesting class you should also take: liturgical, afro- brasilian, indian(which is flippin hard as heck), and flamenco- they're all really great, and it's interesting to implement it into normal styles of dance. whew i'm done

[i love idina]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 2:54pm

Singing - 12 years
Dancing - 10 years
Acting - 11 years

its a great way to spend your time though so i would reccomend giving it a shot if your interested

[Awesome]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:10pm

Oh man thanx so much for the advice guys! I was just wondering, jaesdare, when you said "classical training" wasn't important at this stage, did you mean in singing or dancing?

man im excited...

[To The Stage!]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:40pm

I started dancing when I was around 3. So about...11 years or so. I take ballet, ballet partnering, theater jazz, lyrical, and tap. I have always been in chorus but never took a singing lesson. Ha, i'm not a good singer, but I will probably start some lessons in the summer to get by at an audition. I love to act, but I don't consistently take acting classes. Last summer I took a month or so of classes, but that's really it. I would love to continue them! (time is an issue).

Awesome-It's never too late to start something. Definitly start out with ballet. That is the basis of every single type of dance you will take, and you need it (technique etc.). If wanted to do tap, I would start right away in a beginner class and work your way up depending on how easily you pick up the steps. The first few weeks might be tough, but don't give up! Keep trying and work your hardest!


For those of you who take tap, do you take rythem or broadway style tap? I do broadway style.

[jaesdare]

Posted: 5/2/06 at 7:51pm

Awesome...i meant singing-wise, because alot of people start with classical voice training(it's a very healthy way to learn) and then they move into belting and musical theatre style singing... but dance wise definetely start with ballet

[John3]

Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:44am

I have been singing all my life, but training for about 10 1/2 years, in which my main focus was and still sort of is Classical but also all other styles. Acting that has been about 8 years, and cello 9 years, percussion 4 years, piano 9 years.... I play almost all instruments.