is dancing all that important?

ok i am like 99.8347648% sure there is a post out this somewhere but it wasnt on the main board and i was like NO cuz its 12:40am and im not searching for it!

anyway, i auditioned for syracuse jan 5th and overall id say it went pretty well, aka if the dance portion had not existed i would have been psyched about my audition, but unfortunately the dance portion DID exist which leads me to my question, is the dance audition really THAT important? i mean its not like im completely immobile and im not robotic or anything. everyone else doing the audition had prior dance training and i dont. we had to fill out these papers and i was the only one who practically left the whole thing blank and when it came to the audition i completely screwed up. i laughed it off and at least the auditioners got a sense of my humor, but they might not have found the dance humorus, maybe more so.. torturous?

anyway, blah

sorry i needed to vent.
<3 meghan

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at syracuse it matters. you def. need to a be a triple threat to get in. it's diff. at every school tho

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When I auditioned for Syracuse they said that it's very important how you do in your dance audition, in which I did horribly.

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I am DREADING the UArts dance audition. DREADING it.

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Wicked... don't worry about it. Cathy's response was less than true and not very nice either.

Of course everywhere says the dance is important. Every school I auditioned at said so. Of course it will factor into their decision. It will NOT necessarily keep you from getting in.

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Dance for most school auditions, is not the deciding factor. It was at BoCo. I don't think it is at UCLA. I knew a horrible dancer who got into NYU.

a lot of schools say they look for your "potential to be taught" AKA you don't have to be the BEST dance ever as long as they can tell you have rhythm and they think their dance program would be enough for you to be proficient when you left.

some schools even say that their dance program isn't for admissions at all -- simply for placement if you do get into the program. but then again, some schools really ARE looking for triple threats.

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The CCM dance call wan't too bad if I remember correctly.

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When I auditioned for Sheridan College, they said the dance portion was not important beforehand, so I thought I was fine. But when I walked in, I was surrounded by people who had been dancing all thier life (I danced as a kid, but nothing really after the age of 13). I had a hard time keeping up. And when I got my little "We're sorry but NO" talk after the audition, they told me to go and focus more on my dance and come back. They had no problem with anything else.

So I hate to say it, but for some places, it is pretty important. But like they told me then, that couldn't stop me from getting a bit more training and trying again the next year (I just chose not to).