do i have a chance of being a company ballet member starting pointe at 14?

Answer 1

I started ballet when I was 18 and pointe when I was 20. I'm not in a professional company, but do consider mysel a professional. I definitely don't think it's too late. If you have got the skills and the technique.

You need to really be taking as much ballet as possible. Try to get a lot of experience through Summer Intensives. Just know that once you hit 18 and older it gets a lot harder to get into a company.

Answer 2

The issue isn't so much whether you're starting pointe at 14. That could be considered within normal. More important is whether you have teachers with professional performing experience (i.e., whether THEY were once ballet company members) and how many hours per week you spend taking technique classes.

If you're getting the very best training possible in the country (and only if), then you stand about a 10% chance of joining a ballet company as an unpaid trainee and a 1% chance of actually being offered a corps position in a company. If you're training at a small, hometown studio with a teacher who might have performed in college or local civic companies, then your chances (as a female dancer) of joining a professional ballet company are virtually nonexistent.

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Answer 3

You do have a good chance of being in a professional ballet company, even if you started pointe later than usual. You have to make sure that the ballet school that you attend is a very good school, and one that you can trust to train you to the proffesional level. As long as you are in a good school, the age that you start pointe at shouldn't be a problem, as long as you are getting professional training. I would also reccomend going to a summer intensive program every year, so you are exposed to different styles of teaching. Ballet boarding schools are also very helpful. Remember to take classes often in ballet technique and pointe, and to never give up, because you started pointe only two years after the reccomended age is, and I know amazing ballet dancers who started to dance very late. (I know a very good dancer who started dancing at 19! He got into a professional company, and had a wonderful career.) I have a friend who started to dance at 14, and started pointe at 16. She even took two years off of dance because she was discouraged, but she started up again, and now she is a beautiful dancer, who really deserves to be a ballerina. Never get discouraged, because you really aren't starting pointe that late, and in my opinion, pointe is only a fraction of what you need in order to get into a professional ballet company. You also need to be able to perform and to act onstage. You must be able to express yourself through the character that you are performing. Also, in a ballet company, you also need to be able to do other types of dance, especially character. (Look at Swan Lake.) Modern dance is also helpful if you want to get into a smaller company. Whatever you do, do not ever get discouraged from following your goal to be a professional ballerina. You are not far behind at all, and with the proper training, you can go right up to the top.

Answer 4

OF COURSE! I didn't start ballet until I was 14 and started pointe the same year..I still want to be a professional dancer... Just practice every day, the more you improve, the better your chances of being a professional. Keep working!!

Answer 5

Most certainly. I'd worry about a school that allowed you to start pointe much earlier than 12-14. The tiny bones in your feet are still forming and you don't want to screw up dancing years down the road by rushing something that's just "right now." My youngest daughter has danced since she was three. My other didn't even have her first class until she was 11. You can do anything your heart can dream, good luck.

Find the art in yourself, do not lose yourself in the art.

Answer 6

Which company ballet? If you mean The New York City Ballet, it is very unlikely. Just enjoy dancing.

Answer 7

yeah... i've had sum teachers who've started pointe later than that and were professional and all that... of and by teachers i meant ballet teachers... i do ballet to and i probably wont have pointe until after i'm 14 (i'm 13) so i think you'll do just fine!

good luck!

Answer 8

A very slim one. Most company ballerinas have been at it since they could walk.

Answer 9

you can do anything you set your mind to!!! with the right training and perseverance you can be anything you want to be! Good luck!!!

Answer 10

very doubtful unless you are truly exceptional