<p>Is there anyone who was admitted without having a strong background in dance? I am confident in my vocal and acting skills but I’ve only taken a couple of dance classes when I was in elementary school. If I were to brush up now, what forms of dancing do you recommend I take? And how is the school with admitting transfer students?</p>
<p>To answer your first question, yes, people have been admitted in the past who were not strong dancers. Your voice and acting will need to stand out a little more than the others. </p>
<p>The dance audition is more jazz based. Learn the basics and have a clear understanding of the terms, steps and moves.</p>
<p>Very few transfer students are admitted but all start as freshman. Good Luck</p>
<p>My D hadn’t had a dance class since maybe 5th grade, though she danced in shows every summer and learned to pick up combinations fast…which I think was key to her being accepted at BoCo. I agree with beenthereMTdad, but I hear from my D that she wishes she had had more ballet. Also, one of her roomies was a transfer from a community college after being declined her first try (she was admitted as a freshman).</p>
<p>I agree with Skwidjymom that ballet is the foundation for all dancing. My concern for Arieco41 is that the auditions are just about here. Know your basic combinations and get in good cardio shape. Just do your best, try real hard and smile, smile, smile.</p>
<p>Thank goodness someone else isn’t a dancer too! I’m auditioning at Boco as well and only have about 6 years of dance experience under my belt.</p>
<p>Skwidjymom, do you know what year your daughter’s roommate transferred as?</p>
<p>Markat: 6 years is enough to qualify yourself as trained. No worries.</p>
<p>Everyone else: The majority of schools just look for potential, so just go in and have a good time, do the moves, and look good.</p>
<p>Arieco, the girl did a year at a community college and came to BoCo, as almost ALL transfers do, as a freshman.</p>
<p>My Daughter’s (now a junior) freshman roommate was a transfer from Emerson. She finished one year of their BFA program and had to repeat freshman year at Boco.</p>
<p>that’s kind of mind boggling: that BOCO wouldn’t take a student from Emerson as anything but a freshman.</p>
<p>dramaturge - Actually my understanding is that many BFA programs require transfers to come in as freshman - I know that’s the case with one of my D’s classmates at CMU.</p>
<p>Pretty standard from what hear everywhere.</p>
<p>I think it depends. A student transferring from a BA program most likely must start a BFA program as a freshman. But some students have transferred from one BFA program to another and not started over. For example, since this is a BOCO thread after all, I know someone who transferred to BOCO after one year in Tisch/CAP21 and started BOCO as a soph and graduated college in four years total. I know someone else who transferred mid year from CCM to BOCO and didn’t skip a beat in the class standing.</p>
<p>Regarding BOCO their manual states: “Transfer admission to the Theater Division is very limited and only available for freshmen entrance”. </p>
<p>As in life, there are exceptions to every rule.</p>
<p>I am not the strongest dancer, but I want to go into MT and wish to better my skills. My local dance studio offers many classes in jazz and ballet. There is another class called Broadway Theater Dance and combines jazz and ballet techniques as well as choreography into one class.
Is this the best option, or is it better to take ballet and jazz classes seperately?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Well I think if you are starting with basically nothing, the Broadway theatre dance one is probably best. But if you want to refine skills take the jazz and ballet separately. Personally, I’d take the Broadway class AND ballet. They love to see ballet skills at all of the big schools.</p>
<p>I have a similar problem! I am strong in singing and acting but not so much in dance, as I only took it for 7 years when I was 5-12, and it was recreational dance that I didn’t really take seriously. I saw that the original post was posted last year. I would be very interested to find out what those people had to say about their audition process and whether the dance was difficult or not. When I talked to some reps from the school, they seemed to be pretty much discouraging me from auditioning, and kept telling me they just want “true triple threats.”</p>
<p>Everyone I’ve talked to about BoCo’s dance audition has told me how intense it is…I’m pretty scared, as my audition is a week from today. Like CarolAnneMT, I took dance for all of elementary school but quit because it wasn’t really my passion. I’ve done pretty dance heavy shows though (Cats was a big one) and I manage to pick up the steps quickly. I’m hoping I’ll somehow manage to hold my own on Saturday.</p>
<p>WOW! My audition is Saturday as well, in the 5-6 slot! I may see you there! I’m really getting nervous about it because of all I’ve heard about the intensity of the audition. I’ve prepared very much for my monologues and songs, but there just isn’t much I can do about the dance. I guess what will be best for us, taintedlove, will be to be optimistic, enthusiastic and give the dance portion our all. I’ve read in several other threads that they really appreciate people dancing to show emotion or tell a story, as opposed to just getting all of the steps down perfectly.</p>
<p>CarolAnne and tainted- it sounds as if you both have a good background in dance. Don’t stress out about the dance portion. Dance was not my D’s strongest suit either, but she knew the terms, picked things up easily, and always had a lot of “attitude” on stage. She auditioned for BoCo a couple of years ago and was accepted. We know others who had even less dance experience and still got in. My D did not think the dance audition was one of the hardest at all; she thought it was of medium difficulty compared to all of the programs she auditioned for. Just go in there with confidence, smile, look like you are having fun, and do your best with the dance. Show them that you have stage presence. Blow them away with your strong suits. Of course any school loves to get that triple threat. But many are looking for raw talent that can be developed. I have to say that we never got the impression from BoCo staff that they were only interested in “true triple threats”. Good luck to both of you!</p>