BALLET HELP DESK

ADC|IBC

Los Angeles, CA

General

Dancer Age

Event Details

Round

Regional

Season

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Rules Easy to Access?

Did Dancer Miss School?

Master Classes

Master Class Types

Master class teachers

"Sorry, can’t remember."

Distance from venue

Received corrections

How corrections were given

"Not sure- but she said there were a couple comments made at barre."

What corrections were about

"None"

Teacher engagement

"Walked around the room."
"sat in chair"

Master Class Feedback

Technique

Additional master class comments

"They made a big deal about attendance then stuffed so many dancers in a tiny room. The masterclass was scored by 3 judges."
"The room was so small dancers had to stand outside. Each dancer went across the floor in a group only once."

Performance Details

Venue name

Repeated Responses:

"Downey Theater" (2 responses)

Venue description

"Medium sized theater. Plenty of seating."
"It was nice. There was a place to sit outside."

Stage description

"Nice floor, marley. Not slippery."
"The floor was very slippery. It was average size with marley."

Off-stage warm-up space

"Big backstage area."
"There were rooms down a hallway."

Dressing rooms

"Several dressing rooms for girls, one large dressing room for boys."
"no idea"

Parents in dressing rooms

Male dressing room

Parents backstage

Onstage warm-up

"Typical. Lots of dancers onstage at once."
"Stage was very crowded."

Schedule adherence

Other schedule comments

"There were problems with the music and we all had to resubmit our music which we didn't have so it had to be located on a Sat. night by her teacher."

Staff communication

"There were no changes. They were unwelcoming and over it."
"There was but unless you had the app you didn't get it."

Parent seminar offered

Parent Education

Seminar content	"The judges talked to the audience before awards."
Why (not) helpful	"3 male judges talking to a group of little girls. Thaaaanks for your fascinating life experiences champs."

Judging

Feedback turnaround

Type of Feedback

Feedback helpfulness

Not Helpful At All


Extremely Helpful

Main takeaway

"My dancer scored mid 90’s from two judges from the masterclass and an 87 from the third judge. No explanation."
"The comments were fair but very sylistic. The judges seemed to like tricks over technique- at least the dancers who added a bunch of stuff to their variations won."

Why Scoring Unfair?

"It was interesting…"
"Found that they had favorites and girls who had won in years past were automatically picked. Also, they picked girs from studios who had the most entries."

Awards & Scholarships

Awards ceremony	"Odd choices." "It was at the end, pretty average."

Final Comments

Best aspect

"Leaving and knowing we’ll never do that one again."
"I really wanted to like this one since they girls were judged on the class as well and thought that might be nice. Very few if any offers were given."

Worst aspect

"Having my child continually posted on their Instagram during all aspects of the competition and then winning nothing and getting an 87 (!) for the masterclass. Welcome for your free advertisement Adc. You’ll not get it again."
"The judging was so random. The room in which the girls took the class was tiny. They didn't warm the girls up before grand allegro. They only got to go across the floor once or twice duing the whole class."

Competition culture

"Rude and standoffish. Also total blowhards. They had very high opinions of themselves."
"They were really nice."

Attendee culture

"Whatever. It’s a ballet comp. Nervous moms, nervous kids."
"Girls were very nice. Pretty much the same girls at other compitions."

Suggested changes

"I don’t care. We’re not going back!"
"More offers made. Judging on technique. Release the class scores. Make the classes an actuall class instead of 100 girls in a small room where noone could even be seen."

Cost vs. expectation

Significantly More


Significantly Less

Overall rating

Anything else?

"Prepare to be surprised by the winners!"
"We do a lot of compitions and this was the worst experience we have ever had. The dancers threw in these random firbird jumps in their variations and that's who won."