Thinking of quitting dance...?

If you enjoy dance, then don't quit.

Rather than quit, perhaps take less classes but classes that will help you more, or consolidate what you are taking to classes that will help improve your dance technique. If the modern isn't codified modern such as Graham, Horton or Limon, it isn't real modern and wont help much in the way of dance technique. Competition dance works more on tricks than strong dance technique. It doesn't help you become a better dancer and it costs more, Acro will not help your dance technique but it will help with tricks. You should examine what you really want out of dance. For improving technique you need more ballet. If I were you, I would lose the pointe shoes and take more ballet classes on flat to build strong ballet technique. The fact that you have trouble with spotting and balance for pirouettes reflects your problems with basic ballet technique. Once you use your time better there, you will see how it will improve everything you do in dance. It will also cost less if you don't do the competitions.

So, my advice to you is don't quit dance but change what classes you take. Don't take hip hop and acro but continue with tap if you love it and feel confident. Add more ballet and drop the jazz for the moment and the modern forever if it isn't codified modern as it wont get you anywhere. Strong ballet dancers can dance anything. My daughter was professionally trained in ballet and modern and didn't take any hip hop classes yet has choreographed music videos. Dancers trained with strong dance technique have the muscle technique and dance vocabulary to dance anything. It just becomes different choreography.

You wasted time before in a place that didn't give you the training you needed. Don't do it again by wasting time on things that wont help your basic dance technique, because that is what you really need to work on if you want to improve.

I wish you the best of luck in your classes.

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Please don't quit. If this is something you truly love than please don't. I know you might feel left out because your old studio did not really teach much dance and now your at a new studio you actually learn real dance. Just because your being put into a class with 12 yr olds does not mean you won't get any better. I know you might not like to be compared to my sister because she's 11 but she started dance at only 7 and is still in classes with people a grade younger than her. She still continues to strive and try to be the best she can be. She has advanced and she has continued to do what she loves even tho she's with 10 and 9 yr olds. And sometimes it's just the studio in how they place you. My sister is truly the beat out of her class(and I'm not trying to brag either it's true) and she still is constantly put with the same girls. But this year she is moving up. Please don't ever give up. I know it consists a lot of time but if it's really that much maybe you can drop some classes? Just some tips. And keep practicing is all I can really say, that's the only way you could advance more.

I can understand! This is only my 6th year of dance and i'm realizing my studio is also more for recreation, and not very technical. And honestly, i'm not even good at anything else. I'm sort of good at dance, still working on it. So i guess i need to try harder and work harder if that's what i want to pursue a career in. I miss hanging out with my friends on the weekends and sleeping over and not having to leave at 9 in the morning on a Saturday to go to practice :/ anyway i say quite only if you think it will help you. But if you feel you're not good, just work hard and practice whenever you can. I wish i started when i was younger so i could be better now. Just do what you feel is right :) sorry i kind of had to blab on too, i just felt like i'm in the same position as you! Good luck with whatever your decision is :)

I've been through plenty of mean dance teachers, and I did my best to not let them get to me. Of course I took their advice and critisism very seriously, and I knew if I wanted to be a successful dancer, then I would just have to suck it up and know that I'm here to learn. So just tell yourself your in that class to learn not to be in a group of favorites, forget about that and focus on yourself. Don't give up that class, I know it may be hard but there will be some tough people in your life time and this will be a good way to learn how to deal with them.

hi I'm a dancer and I dont think you should quit listen to me I quit dance before and I was so depressed that I quit I started to cry and throw things your happy dancing just think you almost done with high school and then there's your career if you dont want to be a dancer start be a choreographer look at Abby Lee Miller she start the Abby Lee Dance Company at 13 look where she is now mabey take a 2 year college for dance I dont think that you will need much more cause you have been dancing for a long time. xoxo

~Chloe

No, I really don't think you should quit dance if you like it that much. I'm a dancer too! Dancing is awesome! Don't get too stressed out or feel intimidated by people who are better than you. This is all part and parcel of life. You'll do great! You have already gone this far, persevere on! :D

NO!!!! DONT QUIT. Dance is my life and to see someone else quit is horrible, i dance more than that and i still find time for everything if i can do it you can do it, just do homework once you get home, in the car during breaks at dance and when you get home. YOU CAN DO IT GOOD LUCK!!!!!

im not going to sit here and tell you that you shouldn't quit dance BUT if you are not 150% percent sure that you want to quit i wouldn't quit because you will regret it when you are older.

hope this helps!

Until death