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The Truth About Grades as a Dance Major

You may know what it means to earn a silver, gold, or platinum award for your performance—but probably not an A, B, or C grade. Often, dancers don’t encounter the idea of grading in dance until they enter collegiate dance programs. When you’re evaluating an inherently subjective art form, what distinguishes an A student from […]

The Truth About Exams as a Dance Major

Towards the end of your first semester as a dance student, you’ll participate in something that resembles an exam. Whether your school calls it a jury, a placement, an evaluation, an assessment, or an appraisal, the structure remains roughly the same: You take class in front of all of your dance professors, they scribble furiously […]

School Buzz: UNCSA Teams Up With ABT

UNCSA Teams Up With ABT Wish you could get the world-class training of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre without the hustle and bustle of NYC? Now you can. This fall, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) School of Dance becomes JKO’s exclusive affiliate school. UNCSA School of […]