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Ballet Helps Everything!

Auditions, Competitions, & Intensives: Why, When, What to Expect

Successfully navigate the auditions, competitions, and intensives that lead to centre stage!

Auditions, Competitions, and Intensives – Why, When, What to Expect, the fifth book in the Garage Ballet™ series, is designed to help young dancers prepare for this exciting, fun time in their life!

Dawn C Crouch, a ballet instructor for over forty years, is a strong proponent of a Ballet Helps Everything! perspective because life doesn’t stop when you step outside of the studio!

Ballet training improves a student’s confidence, self-esteem, and ability to adapt to new situations. Auditions and competitions challenge skills. Intensives focus and offer unique opportunities to rank up to greater strength levels.

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In Auditions, Competitions, and Intensives – Why, When, What to Expect, you’ll discover:

  • Specific Steps to Improve
  • Why intensives are valuable to a young dancer
  • Mindsets for Success
  • An Added Bonus – Special Tips and Concerns for Ballet Parents!
  • Real-world advice, insight, and more!

Auditions, Competitions, and Intensives – Why, When, What to Expect is a guidebook to organize and plan for the experiences that offer a glimpse into the life of a dancer and future career possibilities!

Buy Auditions, Competitions, and Intensives – Why, When, What to Expect to perform your best!

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There is no teacher I would trust more with the training of my dancers than Dawn Crouch. Her approach to a dancer’s ballet education is by far her greatest strength.

Phillip Otto
Artistic Director, Huntsville Ballet

Having Dawn Crouch as a teacher from a young age has molded me into not only the dancer but the person I am today.

Sarah Satterfield
Louisville Ballet

Miss Dawn Is a teacher who always boosted my confidence. She went beyond the simple technique of ballet and allowed ballet class to be a haven for artistic expression. As I now teach young students ballet, I hope to instill the same confidence and artistry that Miss Dawn cultivated in me.

Hannah Box
University of South Florida; Patel Conservatory, Tampa

I have had the great honor to have Miss Dawn as one of my teachers. She is an incredible teacher with such a great knowledge of the art of ballet. The corrections she gave me as a student are still helping me in my professional dance career today! She’s amazing!

Abby Callahan
Los Angeles Ballet

I was so lucky to have such an inspiring ballet teacher like Dawn Crouch growing up. The wisdom that Miss Dawn shared with me helped me become a better dancer and more importantly, a better person.

Jaydyn Dahlberg
Indiana University, Miami City Ballet

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Masterclass on Point in book form.  An incredible guide from a seasoned professional and extensively-skilled teacher. Stories, examples, and experiences converge to guide dancers of all ages as well as parents about dancing on point

Sarah Sullivan
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Perfect Guidebook for Adult Dancers! I am a huge fan of the Garage Ballet resource books and am especially excited about Home At the Barre – Adult Ballet. With her signature warmth and wit, Dawn C. Crouch writes intentionally to “encourage you to take the first step into the studio, commit to a regular routine, and win the mind game that adults often wage with themselves over age and self-image.

Gayle
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Makes me want to dance!Ballet Helps Everything! has motivated me to take up ballet to improve my riding. This is not a how-to-dance book, but it’s a fantastic why-to-dance book.

J. Kelly
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I had the good fortune of being trained by Dawn Crouch. She instilled not only technique and work ethic but a love for the arts that still drives me today in my dancing and in training the next generation.

Madison Grace Lynn
Savannah Ballet