Lauren Carnesi Daniels
Contemporary Choreographer • Dance Educator • Program Director
The College Process
for Dance Teachers
What to do, when to do it, and what’s actually your responsibility
in the college audition process
$37 from 3/31 - 4/5
$49
Most teachers are already helping dancers through the college process.
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But it usually happens reactively.
Questions come up.
Deadlines get closer.
Decisions need to be made quickly.
And suddenly you’re trying to guide something that was never clearly structured to begin with.
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Built from real experience guiding dancers through the college audition process since 2013, with students continuing into a wide range of college dance programs.​​ This guide gives you a clear structure to follow. So instead of piecing things together year by year, you know what should be happening, when, and why.
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Inside the guide:​
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A full breakdown of the college process from early training through auditions
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Clear expectations for what should be happening at each stage
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A structured timeline you can actually follow
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Defined roles for what is the teacher’s responsibility vs the student’s
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A way to support dancers without taking on the entire process

Teachers are using this to:​
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map out timelines for current juniors
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start earlier conversations with younger dancers
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organize audition prep without guessing what comes next
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clarify what they should and shouldn’t be responsible for
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create more consistency across their program
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Without a clear structure, this is what usually happens:​
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timelines get compressed
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dancers start preparing too late
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solos are rushed
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teachers take on more than they should
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students rely on last-minute decisions
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Not because anyone is doing something wrong.
Just because there isn’t a process in place.
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The dancers who have the most stable and successful audition experiences are not always the most talented.​
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They are the ones who had direction earlier.
They didn’t start from zero in senior year.
They weren’t figuring everything out at once.
They had a structure to follow.
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This is not a guide to teaching technique.
This is not a choreography or solo resource.
This is a process guide for how to support dancers through the college audition timeline.
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Instead of reacting to deadlines,
you can plan ahead.
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Instead of trying to figure out what comes next,
you have a structure to follow.
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Instead of taking on the entire process,
you know where your role starts and ends.
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You don’t need to have every answer.
But you do need a structure.
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This is a resource you can return to each year as your dancers move through the college process, instead of rebuilding your approach from scratch each season.
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A clear, usable structure you can start applying with your dancers immediately.
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