Entertainment CP for Dancers?

[golden&infinite]

Hey guys! This is a question for the experts on the College Program out there!! I would love to do it. I'm looking into the Entertainment track. Anyway, I would like to know if its open to dancers. The website isn't exactly implicit. (I'm a dance major and plan on being a professional dancer when I graduate.)

So I would like to know what the Entertainment program entails. I want not only it to be beneficial for my career, but I want to be able to understand the course material (aka not too geared towards theatre and music kids). THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ANYONE THAT CAN HELP ME OUT WITH THIS!!

 

[wissa05182]

I dont believe the CP has any entertainment positions available. I think you have to be a full-time cast member (which means finding your own housing) to do any of that fun stuff.

 

[khancock]

The audition is primarily a dance routine. For those that do really well with the basic round, they do a more advanced routine.
The people with a strong dance background are trained in parades and potentially shows.
As for as the entertainment course is concerned, I don't know. Your best bet is to contact the disney education folks for specific questions about that.

 

[golden&infinite]

Thanks for the info guys! Please keep more coming!

P.S. Wissa, we're from the same town!! Did you grow up in Kato, or do you go to MSU?

 

[teh fish]

The CP does do Entertainment. You do have to audition though. Here's some information on the Entertainment role: http://www.wdwcollegeprogram.com/sap/its/mimes/zh_wdwcp/students/role_descr/entertainment.html

And people without a dance background can get trained in parades and shows.

 

[natty41]

Entertainment is a blast



that is all.

 

[princessgirl2238]

entertainment is the best role ever! you have to go to an audition outside of the cp interview (i went to chicago for mine) and then they'll cast from there. they can't guarentee a spot as a dancer and no matter what, you'll be trained in fur character. because entertainment cps are sort of like the filler, sometime's you'll be trained for a dancing role but then never get to do it (and that part sucks cause most trainings are around midnight or later and then you have normal set roles the next day), but if you get it, always go to the animation and dance assestments (color coding) and preference your top choices. the most general role that entertainers get are parades- they are so much fun, but are a lot of hard work.
if you are looking for dancing outside of that (more of a professional standpoint), go to that actual dancer auditions. they are held once a month (i can't remember if it is the third friday of the month- it's something like that) and is at the animal kingdom rehersal facility (it's not actually at animal kingdom), go to disneycareers.com and it'll give you the specific details.

 

[pinkprincess07]

I was wondering how entertainment was for cpers who were approved for face. Do they normally do more fur or face? And how likely is it to be involved in parades and factasmic?

 

[Joanna71985]

It depends on who they are "friends" with and how much they are needed. My old CP roomie was "friends" with princesses and she did both pretty much evenly (though she did face a little more).

As for shows/parades, that depends on your color code (how well you dance and animate). The bigger shows require you to be a good dancer (at least).

 

[princessgirl2238]

I was wondering how entertainment was for cpers who were approved for face. Do they normally do more fur or face? And how likely is it to be involved in parades and factasmic?

with the new bid line that was just put into place, cp's will most likely do more fur than face; they just emplimented a thing with full timers that has a person doing specifically a certain face role with the option of picking up shifts in for another one (if they are approved in another role- which doesn't always happen) and what this means for cps that get trained in face is that there are less spots to fill for face so they have to do way more fur roles (blame the full timers who constantly complane about cps coming in and taking all the good roles/shifts for the change).
for training for parades and fant. it really all depends on your color assestment (which you will get once you get down there) and when you start. i was training in MJJP the week after i had finished training, i missed out on fant training because i had to come home on a specific week for school related issues (it was on my schedule and then taken off since i wouldn't be in florida that week ) and if you are unable to attend the training on the days they pick to train on, then you will be taken out of it (there are no substitution dates for this stuff- i was almost also taken out of halloween parade because of it, but luckly i was able to get back in time for it- i wouldn't have missed it for anything); also if you are cp, then you are only suppose to be trained in one outside role (aka: parade, show, etc...) but if staging really likes you then they'll put you in more than one thing.

 

[pinkprincess07]

Thank you so much for all of your information. I am doing the CP soon and i got approved for face and it is something I have dreamed of doing but from what it sounds like I wont be able to do it that much. But I hope that I will be able to do it alot!

 

[princessgirl2238]

Thank you so much for all of your information. I am doing the CP soon and i got approved for face and it is something I have dreamed of doing but from what it sounds like I wont be able to do it that much. But I hope that I will be able to do it alot!

it really just depend on the need for performers that week (for some reason they all tend to go on vacation about the same time and that's when you get so many hours as face
but the lack of hours doing face makes it that much more special when you get scheduled it. a lot of the the full timers that are bidded as face could care less that they are a princess (which is very sad)

* the best advice i can give you for now is that don't change your look at all until a week after you start the program. if you tan, keep your skin color at the color it was at the audition- cause even though your acceptance letter says hired for face, if casting sees you the day of check in/ secondary face casting or training and you're skin is about 5 times darker, or you have a visable tattoo, piercing, skin problems, they may rethink your casting as face (one of my roommates was face casted also and when we both went to the secondary casting on check in day, they said she changed a whole bunch from when they saw her in auditions and that she no longer fit a role)

good luck! it is the most amazing role to get and you'll love it!

 

[pinkprincess07]

thank you again for the information. I am so excited to go down there only 3 weeks left! i really hope that I love the job and I am sure that I will. Are you working at WDW right now? Are you still in entertainment there? Did you do it for your CP?

 

[MyManGoofy!]

(blame the full timers who constantly complane about cps coming in and taking all the good roles/shifts for the change).

I absolutely WOULD NOT suggest throwing attitude at any FT person that is upset/complains about the way Disney uses the CP program. Full time people are just that - people who have made a commitment to Disney as a CAREER or at least a dedicated job. It can be very frustrating to have your position/role usurped by a temporary intern over and over again with each new program.

Disney does this for various reasons (mainly money as CPers are paid less) and the resentment should be squarely on management. However, there are plenty of CPers that come in feeling it is their right to get these roles and that FT CM's should just shut up. This can cause much resentment and I would just recommend avoiding that.

 

[princessgirl2238]

I absolutely WOULD NOT suggest throwing attitude at any FT person that is upset/complains about the way Disney uses the CP program. Full time people are just that - people who have made a commitment to Disney as a CAREER or at least a dedicated job. It can be very frustrating to have your position/role usurped by a temporary intern over and over again with each new program.

Disney does this for various reasons (mainly money as CPers are paid less) and the resentment should be squarely on management. However, there are plenty of CPers that come in feeling it is their right to get these roles and that FT CM's should just shut up. This can cause much resentment and I would just recommend avoiding that.

actually looking at it that way, i do agree with you to some extent. i think it's amazing for those who do entertainment for years on end, i only did it for seven months and as much as i loved it, it was killing me. the only time i get a little bitter is when i think back on some of the full timers reactions to hearing that i was trained in a few parades. i actually was one of those cp's (one of the few still left) that didn't think that i'd ever be put in one and was extrememly suprised when i had training the second week out of fur training. i think cps' sometimes have really bad attitudes and i think because they gave off really bad attitudes they made the full timers mad at all cps.
anywho- for everyone going down there, it is amazing and keep positive about the whole thing- it's an eye opening and amazing experience (and don't let the end of the program beat you down, that is one thing i regret about when i left was that i got hurt and since the injury couldn't be fixed till i got back, i would go into work somewhat negative and by the end of the day that was what everyone saw was that i was in a bad mood- which is not a good way to go out)

 

[pinkprincess07]

What exactly is seconday casting? What do they do?

 

[caseface297]

I have a question about the physical demands of being in fur... how do you deal with it? Have you ever seen someone have to leave the Entertainment department because they couldn't physically take it?