please help
Looking for honest perspective from people who’ve done ballet summer intensives, especially adult dancers/later starters.
I’m 24 F and have been dancing for about 4 years, training ~3x/week plus practicing at home. I’m good with ballet vocabulary, class etiquette, corrections, alignment etc, and I can usually keep up in barre. My weaker areas are fast/intricate centre work and pointe.
I signed up for a summer intensive and now I’m worried I underestimated the level. The lower tiers were mostly for younger dancers, so I ended up applying for the highest adult tier, which mentions around 6 years experience and starting frm age 16 and up. being able to follow combinations.
I don’t mind struggling or not fully keeping up personally. I mainly want to learn as much as possible and challenge myself while I still can. I’m more scared of being genuinely out of place or slowing things down for others.
Does this sound like normal first-intensive anxiety, or like a real mismatch?
i did not have to audition i just told tjem about my dance experience without going into too much detail. Suddenly i feel like i might have made a mistake. However i know i will regret not going for life probably.