#GotheJoffreyDistance: Josie Walsh’s Audition Tips
Audition season is well under way and our teachers want to give you some feedback! We asked some JBS summer intensive directors to share their tips on how to have a great audition and we’re going to share them with you one by one. First up, Josie Walsh Director of the San Francisco and Los Angeles Jazz & Contemporary intensives!
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JBS Honor Roll
Joffrey Ballet School strives for excellence not only in dance training, but also encourages students to pursue academic educations outside of the studio. Many of our students are enrolled in independent study, home schooling, or online high school and college programs. Some even attend local high schools and colleges around the city on top of their full-time curriculum at JBS! We are incredibly proud of these students who showed academic excellence this past semester and made it on to our Academic Honor Roll with straight A’s.
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Student Spotlight: dancer, choreographer… J&C Trainee Imani Williams
Awesome, crazy, exciting, intense, rewarding are just a few words that describe my experience as a Jazz and Contemporary Trainee at the Joffrey Ballet School. You are immediately thrown into a variety of classes, including hip-hop, Horton technique, Latin jazz, musical theater, street jazz, and many, many more. This variety is what originally brought me to the Jazz and Contemporary Program. It drew me in because you get versatile training directly from successful, working artists in the industry.
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Student Spotlight: Jermaine Turnbow: A 2014 Summer Scholarship Recipient
Check out this inspiring video from 2014 summer scholarship recipient Jermaine Turnbow – who has overcome many challenges in his life to follow his passion to dance. Joffrey Ballet School student spotlights bring you closer to the students at our school that are just like you! Real stories from real dancers that inspire you to always give one hundred percent, check out the #MyJoffreyLife tab for more Student Spotlights!
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Why I Do What I Do: Shaping the 21st Century Dancer
Being that versatile dancer who can bounce from technique to technique, and style to style with specificity and artistry is the dancer that will work consistently, finding the joy that dancing provides, and the bank account that consists of a checking account, and a savings account.
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