Private mentorship for dancers

The mentorship academy

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Application-based • Limited seats

A note from Paloma

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If you’ve been training hard but your career still feels foggy, this is for you. I built this academy to protect your time, your confidence, and your direction.

We work with a small cohort so feedback stays precise.

You leave with career assets that make you look unmistakably professional.

If we can’t genuinely help, we won’t accept you.

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The people holding the room

your mentors

You’re being guided by people who know the rooms you want to walk into.

Paloma

FOUNDER

Paloma is the founder of The Dancing Business, the organization dedicated to providing dancers the opportunities, resources, and support to pursue a career in dance. Graduated with a BFA in Dance Choreography and Performance at the University of California, Irvine, she was a dance coach for over 7 years before transitioning to supporting the dance community in making dance a sustainable career. Now, she provides jobs, scholarships and resources for dancers. Empowering the community one dancer at a time. Her professional credits include professional work as a contemporary ballet dancer, freelancer, teacher, social media manager, CEO, coach, and choreographer in the United States, Mexico, Germany, and Spain– providing her with an international perspective on the dance industry.

Rocío Colomer jorda

MENTOR

Rocío Colomer is a Spanish dancer, choreographer, and instructor based in Los Angeles, with experience navigating both the LA dance industry and international opportunities. Alongside her performance work with artists such as Tito El Bambino, Rocío has trained with choreographers such as Kira Harper and Tia Rivera, continuing to develop her voice within the commercial dance space. She is known for Reggaeton x Heels, but her work goes beyond technique. As a mentor, Rocío brings a realistic and evolving perspective on building a sustainable career in dance, combining creativity with strategy. She is particularly considerate about supporting dancers in navigating uncertainty, and transitioning from training into a financially viable career.

Weeks 1–2

Rebuild Your Foundation

Identify concrete milestones for the duration of the next 12 weeks. This helps you be intentional when you achieve a milestone, rather than skipping over celebration and moving ahead to next goalpost. Dream big and break it down into systems to incorporate every day. Get ready to actively allow yourself abundance: your identity transformation begins.

Week 3

Industry Research

Work on "Dreamlining" to find formal dance organizations that compliment your natural strengths and weaknesses, so you lead a sustainable career with room to breathe. We look at the exact countries, choreographers and companies that will suit YOU, and build a strategy to create your network with them in real-time. As the dance industry evolves, you will find that your goals will need to adapt. This is where having dynamic goals become important.

Weeks 4–5

Reels & Resumes

We research the exact audition you want to apply for, and personalize your reel and resume for that specific audition. The company vouches for you by looking at your audition materials, alone. Learn the structure of a stand-out reel and resume, to develop it for your next auditions.

Week 6

Become a Brand

You become the entity that pulls in projects you once auditioned for. Collaborations reach you. You build a persona that represents you authentically and attracts the right connections, leading to paid opportunities.

Week 7

Your Social Media

A professional dancers' Instagram account does not look like an influencer's. There are set points that recruiters look for in your account. Translate Week 6 into your online presence. Social Media becomes a tool, where views are nothing without conversion.

Week 8

Reflection

Check in with the systems decoded in Week 1. Are you applying them into your daily life? Prepare your materials and rubrics with Rocío for the Mock Audition.

Week 9

Mock Audition

Every mentee auditions for their chosen project from Week 3, and present as casting directors for their peers' auditions. Practice presenting yourself in an audition: dressing, speaking and dancing. We invite guest judges who fill in your rubrics and provide feedback in real-time. Take the time to build your network with the guest judges, exchange contacts to stay in touch outside of The Mentorship Academy.

Week 10

Build Your Teaching Package

Create a systematic portfolio you can submit to dance festivals, studios and workshops all over the world. Even if you don't feel ready, every dancer has something to teach and something to share. Having a teaching package means your materials are now complete.

Week 11

Finances

Observe your current income streams and brainstorm relevant monetary pathways with Rocío. Run projections to understand your ideal income: a different value for every dancer. Discover how dancers travel on a budget. Delve deep into your relationship with finances and begin the process of healing core beliefs relating to money.

Week 12

Mastery & Future Integration

No lose threads. We focus on what comes after The Mentorship Academy. Build your 5-year plan. Stay accountable with your cohort and Paloma.

Onboarding

A calm, clear process

You’ll always know where you stand, what’s next, and what we need from you.

Step 01

Application

Submit your application so we can understand your goals, your current reality, and what you need next.

Step 02

Call with Paloma

A short call to confirm fit and expectations. This is where we get honest and precise.

Step 03

Acceptance / Decline

You’ll receive a clear decision. If it’s a no, we’ll still point you in the right direction.

Step 04

Reserve your slot

If accepted, we’ll email next steps and a security deposit link. Once submitted, your slot is reserved and we’ll stay in touch via email.

If you are looking for direction and long-term positioning, you will recognize yourself here.

Alumni Hall of Fame

The wall of proof

Real names. Real paths.

ROUND 1

rocio jorda

Spain

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ROUND 1

MILENE furtado

Portugal

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ROUND 1

zoey lo

Singapore

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ROUND 1

Kelsey boyle

United States of America

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ROUND 1

ANASTASIA GEORGA

Italy

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ROUND 2

Zina Bzb

France

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ROUND 2

Sarah Louise Griggs

United Kingdom

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ROUND 2

brooklynn harper

United States of America

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ROUND 2

Petra Kačar

Belgium

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ROUND 2

Frederikke Fabricius Hamberg

Germany

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ROUND 3

CINDY CARBAJAL

United States of America

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ROUND 3

kushi aeri

United States of America & India

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ROUND 3

ALEXIS ROMAN

United States of America

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ROUND 3

Jillian L. Kramschuster

United States of America

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ROUND 3

katie needles

United States of America

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CVs showcased are the sole intellectual property of our alumni. Some CVs may be unavailable upon the request of our dancers. Round 4 in progress.

Video testimonials

ALUMNI REVIEWS

Jillian L. Kramschuster

Round 3

Milene Furtado

Round 1

Inside the Academy

free resources

An editorial look at the tools, systems, and references you gain access to for free.

Audition Ready Package

Second-by-Second templates for building dynamic reels along with three industry relevant CVs

Priced outside The Mentorship Academy: $65.00

Purchase separately

The Ultimate Guide for Dancers

This guide combines mindset and concrete action, giving you the exact methods that Paloma used to land her first professional dance contract.

Priced outside The Mentorship Academy: $49.99

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Certification

Get your certification

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Now it's your turn

YOUR DANCE CAREER AWAITS

Investment

$200 / month

One-time payment: $1,200
3-month plan: $400 / month
6-month plan: $200 / month

Apply for consideration

Questions dancers ask before they say yes.

We don’t offer scholarships in the traditional sense, but we do support dancers in funding their tuition by connecting them with brand sponsors. You can find more information on how this works in the PDF linked below.

This process isn’t dependent on having a large online presence or following.

Sponsor Your Tuition (pdf)

The payment plans are as follows:
Pay in Full (One-time transaction)
3-monthly payments
6-monthly payments

Note: Your first payment is due the night before the first meeting of Round 4.

You first pay a security deposit of $100 USD to reserve your spot after getting selected. This amount is non-refundable.

The payment plans adjust the remaining $1800 USD to make your journey affordable.

If you’re serious enough to show up consistently, you’re in the right range. We care about commitment more than polish.

No, but we can support you in creating a training routine during your 1-on-1. You can use the Slack group to ask for feedback on your training from your peers too.

The Mentorship Academy's group sessions are solely focused on developing your identity as a professional dancer.

The Mentorship Academy is hosted completely online, so dancers can join in from any part of the world.

For Round 4, we will meet on ------ each week for group meetings. Timing will not be changed for the mentees, however meeting recordings will be provided. It is highly advised to join each session live, and only apply if you can carve out time for the group sessions.

You will be directly in touch with your mentor to finalize timings for your 1-on-1 meetings.

Meeting recordings will be provided for you to have life-time access. It is highly advised to join each session live, and only apply if you can carve out time for the group sessions.

Yes! Every week.

Paloma Perez-Rojas has a degree in Education, so The Mentorship Academy is built with intentionality so it's multi-dimensional and compliments different learning styles.

The Mentorship Academy uses a holistic method of conveying the curriculum. It is created to include a mix of reading, writing, chats and dancing!

The Ultimate Guide for Dancers is a written self-paced pdf so you can create daily rituals around dance, ensuring it stays a part of your life even in difficult seasons, like moving cities.

The Mentorship Academy focuses on industry secrets, presenting yourself as a professional dancer and creating sustainable income streams.

After the 12 weeks are completed, you are bullet-proof to go forward on your own. You can stay connected to your cohort by exchanging contacts, connect with our alumni and guest judges from the Mock Audition in Week 9.

You will also be invited to be in the guest panel for Mock Auditions in future rounds of The Mentorship Academy.

You can always reach out to @the.dancing.business to schedule more 1-on-1s with Paloma, each session will be given at a discounted rate for alumni of The Mentorship Academy.

There will be 5 to 10 dancers in your cohort. Intake for each round varies with the number of eligible applicants!

You will get two 1-on-1s to utilize during the 12 weeks. You may schedule it directly with your mentor.

You can request additional 1-on-1s at a discounted rate, to customize your journey the way you want it!

We use:
Google Meet for weekly group video conferences.
Slack to communicate via texts
Notion to access meeting itineraries
Google Drive to share audition materials for the Mock Audition

Our guarantee is we will provide you with the correct, relevant and audited information about the dance industry. We can provide you with the current network of alumni and guest mentors. You will leave with ready to submit audition materials, and an experience of being in the audition room with the Mock Audition. We don't partner with companies hiring on spot.

At the end of the day, it is you who is taking action over the entire duration of the 12 weeks. Every dancer's journey looks different, and its just waiting to begin!

You will always feel the need to train more and that's valid. However, the actual way to become a professional dancer is not just training more. We all realize now, it's much more than that. Dancers are way more ready to be hired than they think.