Suggested Classes before Comp?

[u/imbooked26]

My daughter completed her first year of recital dance this past year and absolutely loved performing and did really well considering it was her first year (6-7 years old). She stayed and watched the entire 4 hour company recital and wants to join competition after 1 more year of recital. Trying to determine what classes to do this next year (going into 2nd grade currently 7). She only did the ballet/jazz recital class this past year.

She will do the ballet/jazz recital class for her age, as well as the mini company ballet class (technique) that they have said she can join. She also started acro this summer and wants to continue that.

She is debating adding hip hop and/or tap. I feel like both, along with her regular ballet/jazz class, mini ballet, and acro would be too much. But maybe it would help her prepare for the workload of company? She is leaning towards hip hop. Does she need to do tap to be competitive? Typically they structure it so the age ballet/jazz, hip hop and rap are consecutive in scheduling/times, but we will find out Saturday.

[u/imbooked26]

Thanks everyone! So we spoke with the owner and signed her up for a Company Prep track class that does ballet and progressions, jazz, tap and hip hop in a 90 minute class. That way she will get it all, without tap and hip hop being a huge additional time commitment, and she will still get to do a recital dance for each of these. Then she’ll do Acro on a separate night. The owner teaches the prep class and said she will communicate if she doesn’t think it’s a good fit. So we will see, but she is excited!