What It's Really Like to Send Your Teen to Full-Time Ballet Training: Part 2

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Our parent panel is back for part two, picking up right where we left off.

In this half of the conversation, Erin, Sarah, and Sue cover the topics that come up most for families navigating full-time residential training: how a highly competitive environment can affect a dancer's confidence, how SAB, Houston Ballet Academy, and Canada's National Ballet School each approach annual cuts, and how the academic models differ across the three programs.

The conversation also gets into the pressure dancers carry during audition season, the friendships that form in competitive training environments, and what it looks like to keep family life running when your dancer is living far from home.

We close with the advice each parent would offer a family just starting this journey, and the one thing they would tell themselves on drop-off day.

Learn more about full-time ballet training on our website.