Dance Magazine: In 2022, Lleyton Ho was at a crossroads. He’d just wrapped up his first full season as a corps de ballet member with San Francisco Ballet (the previous two seasons’ programming had been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic), and he was eager to continue dancing with the company. Ho had completed his freshman year at Stanford University the year before, and the leave of absence he’d taken since then to pursue ballet was about to expire. He had to make a decision: Would it be college life or company life? “I thought to myself, What if I just did both?” remembers Ho. “If someone tells me something is impossible, I say, ‘Actually, it’s possible, and I’m going to make it happen.’ ”
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I think that it’s super cool that this dancer, Lleyton Ho, got the opportunity to pursue dance professionally and an education at the same time. For people who have multiple passions, it can be incredible when they don’t have to pick just one. However, I also think that for a lot of people, this is very unrealistic. First of all, this specific person has to have been both REALLY good at ballet to get a contract like that with the SanFrancisco Ballet, and also has to have been REALLY good at school to have gotten into Stanford (that plus also being lucky). To do both at the same time is incredibly difficult, and I commend this young person for being able to do it, but I know that most people wouldn’t be able to handle that schedule and do well at both or either of those things. Also, how he was able to pay the expensive tuition without additional jobs (I’m assuming that being a dancer isn’t the most lucrative business ever) is a question. Many people can’t get through college without having multiple jobs, and many artists also have to have multiple jobs.
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