Amount of jazz dance at 6th form college

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Hilltop
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Amount of jazz dance at 6th form college

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My DD has just started at a localish performing arts 6th form college that’s linked to a part time dance school, doing musical theatre. She’s doing 2 lessons of ballet, 2 lessons of tap, 1 lesson commercial, 1 lesson modern, 1 lesson commercial jazz and 1 contemporary, as well as singing and acting. I just wondered if 1 lesson of jazz will be enough considering most auditions include ballet and jazz. My DD wants to give up her current performing arts Saturday classes which includes a lesson of jazz, but we’re not sure if one lesson a week will be enough.
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Re: Amount of jazz dance at 6th form college

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DD was a Read and just started at Conti.
She did 2.5hours of ballet, 2.5 hours of Jazz, 1.35 hours tap, 1.25 hours contemporary, 1.25 hours commercial, plus 1.25 hours of body con in year 1. In year 2 they added 2.5 hours of audition dance and 1.25 hours of MT dance.
Her cohort are all just starting at Bird, Urdang, Conti, Trinity and PPA.
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Re: Amount of jazz dance at 6th form college

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I'm by no means a dance expert, but does it perhaps depend whether your DD would consider herself primarily a dancer or more of a triple threat performer? If she's aiming for eg Mountview, GSA etc and is a fantastic actor-singer who can also move well, I doubt a relative lack of experience in one dance discipline would hold her back. However if she's aiming for Conti, Bird etc and is first and foremost a dancer, she may want to keep the Saturday class going to cover all bases.
Someone will probably come along and say the exact opposite now!
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Re: Amount of jazz dance at 6th form college

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I would say that: the commercial dance, the modern and commercial jazz all classify as ‘jazz’ and would all be beneficial in an audition scenario. Quantity is not really the issue, it’s more the quality of those lessons that counts.
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