Haircut for professional auditions

[Alysse]

I am a serious ballet student, 17 years old and about to audition for the first time for companies in spring of 09. I desperately want to cut my long hair off to about shoulder length. I mean, I will cut it in about two weeks, and it will have all of winter season to grow out before auditions...should I keep it long for auditions? Do auditioners like girls with a big lucious bun? I would hate to be cut just for my hair.

[Mel Johnson]

Alysse, shoulder length is not particularly short. As long as the hair can be put up neatly, it won't count against you. If you were to get your hair cut into a pixie cut or other helmet-type bob, now that would be problematical. Cut it and let grow as you've proposed.

[Claude_Catastrophique]

When I attended my SI this year there were several girls with shoulder long hair and they cheated very well with a special cussion for a bun. I thought they had longer hair than mine (mine is about waist-long) because their buns were bigger than mine. It looked really neat and if you regret to cut your hair off according to make a bun, you could one of those to fake your bun

[missy12784]

I just got my hair cut to an angled layered bob to chin length and the only thing I can do is to put it up into two little pigtails. And although Nutcracker is in 3 months, there is no way to have a bun for Nutcracker. But Discount Dance has fake buns that I use and they look soooooo real. You just need to have hair short enough to put into a small ponytail. I've learned that the bun doesn't make the dancer.