Will a professional ballet career ever be possible for me?

Every dancer is a perfectionist, according to Mack, who believes the biggest challenge to becoming a professional ballet dancer is accepting it will be a ... “It's a short-lived career and you're always battling against time to reach perfection, so you need as much of it on your side as possible,” he explains. read more

To become a professional ballet dancer you must have the right body, skill level, talent, charisma and dedication for whatever company you strive to be in. RAD and other “graded” ballet systems are purely recreational and no ballet dancer has ever gotten into a ballet company by doing that syllabus by itself. read more

Men can and do start later but they have different requirements in ballet and don't dance en pointe. Even for men, 19 would be too old to start with any hopes for a ballet career. Recreational schools don't have the right training to pass on to any dancer for a ballet career. read more

The next day, while I was at school, he called my parents and offered me a position in the company as an apprentice, which is the entry-level job of a professional dancer. I was 17, and it was the beginning of my senior year of high school. read more