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Summer Intensive Reviews

Programs Reviewed: 218
Total Reviews: 1560

Ballet Met Partnering Intensive

Summer Intensive Reviews

General

Dancer age

1
3
2
3

Gender

7
2

First time at a summer intensive?

8
1

Year of SI

5
2
2

Weeks available

7
2

Weeks attended

7
2

Reviewer

3
6

Curriculum

Techniques taught

4
1
6
3

Partnering (based on age)

9

Dedicated men's program?

2
2
5

# of boys in level

4
1
4

Other dance genres

8
2

Quality of other classes

Not Helpful
2
7
Helpful

Injury Prevention

Strength classes?

1
7
1
1

PT offered?

5
4

Extra fee for PT?

1
7

Injury rate

3
6

Teaching

Who taught?

1
4
4

Guest teachers

2
3
4

Year-round teachers taught

3
5
1

Attention from teachers

Very Little
2
1
2
4
A Lot

Technique improved?

No
2
2
2
3
Yes - Tremendously

Studios

Dance floors

1
1
1
1
6

Studio space

Cramped
1
1
3
4
Lots of Space

Studio cleanliness

Dirty
2
3
4
Spotless

Schedule

Classes per day

4
4
1

Saturday classes

3
6

Saturday class duration

6
3

Leveling

Leveling

4
5

Leveling type

2
4
3

Did students move levels?

5
2

Leveling fair?

2
7

Students per class

4
3
1
1

Performance

Performance?

2
7

Rehearsals happened

2
4
1

Casting equitability

Uneven
1
2
4
Even

Rehearsals detracted from class?

Completely
1
2
6
Not At All

Housing - General

Housing provided

7
2

# of roommates

3
2
1
1

Bathrooms

2
5

Coed bathrooms

6
1

Air conditioning

1
6

Housing comment

  • 1-week partnering intensive. First year, but showed positive reviews from all/most who attended
  • Not much around.
  • There isn’t much you can do outside your dorm. Very limited boundaries
  • It was a suite so there were two rooms and a bathroom i had one other person in my room so i had four roommates also because it was two weeks they did not have excursions except one trip to target

Where did they stay?

2

Housing - Supervision

Curfew

7

Curfew reasonable?

7

Room check

1
6

How strict were dorms?

3
1
3

Infraction handling

1
5
2
1

Housing - Cleanliness

Laundry available

7

Laundry free

4
1
2

Housing cleanliness

Dirty
2
4
1
Spotless

Cleaning required

2
5

Meal Plan

Meal plan

7

Food quality

Gross
1
4
2
Excellent

Enough food

7

Dietary needs?

6
1

Specific needs

1

Dietary options

Limited
1
Lots

Activities

Weeknight activities

5
2

Weekend outings

9

Logistics

Quality of handbook

Spotty
2
2
1
1
2
Comprehensive

Program communication

Limited
1
1
1
2
4
Comprehensive

Transportation

1
1
1
5
1

Neighborhood safety

Not Safe
4
4
1
Very Safe

General Comments

Overall recommendation

Definitely Not
1
1
3
4
Absolutely

Best aspect

  • One week with focus on partnering. Dancers had 5+ hours of partnering each day and a 2-hour technique class
  • Challenging technique class and plenty of partnering instruction
  • Attention to the dancers
  • An opportunity to focus on partnering
  • You get both classical pas and contemporary pas
  • Lots of partnering and all the men were good partners
  • I just had fun with my friends

Least liked about program

  • Studio floors
  • Too short
  • Men always dance - 2-3:1 ratio while girls sit around waiting. Crowded studio Not very challenging
  • Ballet, pas technique, and pas rep was all on pointe. So you had about 5 hours on pointe a day
  • For it being a partnering intensive there was not enough boys at all there was only 8 or 9 in my level so there was to many girls there was about 40 girls so there was like 5 girls to a partner so it was a lot of just standing around and not a lot of dancing for the girls so we were in pointe shoes from 10:00am till 6:00pm so for not dancing that much and having to stand killed my feet also on another note i felt like i was being ignored by a bunch of teachers and i didn't get a lot of corrections also there were only two levels and it was done by age so me being fourteen and the program is 15-18 or 20 i was one of the youngest. So if you do end up going i recommend going when you are at least 18.

Suggested changes to program

  • Lunch time was late; move it forward or have a quick break prior.
  • Studio is not in the greatest part of the city…I would not want my daughter walking there alone.
  • No protocol for dancers paired with injured partner. Male partner could not do lifts
  • the age groups, There being more boys, and for all of the teachers correcting everyone

Culture of program

  • Supportive
  • Challenging but fun and inclusive
  • Accepting,
  • Seemed to emphasize men Corrections were generally directed to the group
  • Very kind! All teachers were super nice but also strict.
  • I would say it was pretty good because a lot of the kids are nice also i had friends who i knew from past intensives or competitions

Other comments

  • BalletMET summer partnering intensive was a great opportunity. 2023 was the first year this intensive was offered, but we are hoping it reoccurs upcoming years.
  • Not much going on in the area but the dance was wonderful
  • Presentation revealed obvious spacing issues Partners should be alternated daily
  • Very helpful for partnering and overall technique with company members teaching and also taking technique classes along with students to give a little inspiration. And all the partners were great and easy to trust coming from someone who doesn’t trust partners easily!
  • At the end of the day all of the girls would take there trash cans and put a new bag in there and on every floor they had coolers so we would dump ice in there and use water from our showers to ice our feet
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