AboutKT Expertise I can answer questions dealing with the "how tos" of jazz, ballet, hip hop and lyrical. I can help get over creative blocks with song ideas and inspiration to help create. I can answer choreography questions and techniques to help better your dancing and/or teaching.
Experience I have been dancing for 19 years in the styles of jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and contemporary. I studied at a studio rated one of the top 100 studios in the nation, then moved on to The Ohio State University to study dance. I have been teaching summer dance camps for five years. I've been choreographing solos and group routines at a local studio and for groups in my state for three years. I have also attended numerous conventions and workshops throughout the nation. Through the winter I judge for a dance team circuit in the styles of Pom, Jazz, Lyrical, and Hip-Hop.
Education/Credentials I will soon be graduating with a bachelors degree in early childhood development and a minor in dance education.
Awards and Honors This past year I was given one of only twelve scholarships out of four hundred students from Broadway Dance Center's the Pulse.
Expert: KT Date: 6/20/2008 Subject: degree in dance
Question hi
i just wanted to know, do i have to get a degree in dance to become a professional dancer?
Answer Hey Phoenix! Sorry to leave you waiting like that! I didn't get your question until today...It is defiantly not a requirement to get a degree in dance to become a professional dancer. Many dancers wait to go to college until later in life so they can get started on their career sooner rather than later. Getting a degree in dance could never hurt but it also depends what you want to do with your dance career. If you would like to be a dance analyst, historian, maybe even a teacher a degree will help you do these things. If you are gearing more towards the performance track you may not need to get your degree right away in dance. Hope this helps!
