Can you be a professional dancer if you've only had jazz & ballet lessons ?

Question

I've been doing ballet for 4 years and jazz for 5.
Ballet lessons = 2 hours per week.
Jazz lessons = 2 hours per week.

I practise for an hour each day.

Should I take more classes (E.g. Lyrical, tap) or should I just stick with jazz & ballet ?

Not a ballerina.
Just a dancer in general.

Answer 1

If this is what you really want to do, you will definantly want to start taking more classes. If you want to be a ballerina drop all other classes as someone else said and really concentrate on that, but if you want to be an all-around dancer or anything else stay with ballet.
Ballet is the base for a lot of styles of ddancing and it will help you soooo much.
You may want to get a little variety.
I don't know what your studio offers, but some suggested classes are:
Hip-Hop
Tap
and
Leaps and turns
You also may want to try a competitive dance team.
To get the feel for the pro dance life.
Good Luck!
Jessica

Answer 2

You are doing fine! You can be a pro w/the background you have,but,just for fun,take a few tap classes &see how you like it.Directors like to see variety

Answer 3

if you are going to become a ballerina,drop everything and concentrate just on ballet,and toe classes.Very hard to be excepted into that profession.
If just dance,,,I would concentrate on jazz and tap only..

Answer 4

i personally think that you should take more classes and be more rounded then you can audition for many more things hope this helped

Answer 5

Ask your dance teachers. Tell them the reason you are asking.