balancing hobbies

[ilovesushi]

My DD is 11 and loves music and dance. She is doing well in both areas and as she is getting older more opportunities for training and performing are opening up. Both hobbies are making increasing demands on her time and I am aware that she also needs down time and rest, and time to focus on school work. I feel like she is too young to have chose between music and dance, but I don't want her to get burnt out. How do other people manage balancing two serious hobbies?

Which can she not do without? She may have to keep one for fun. You can't really progress in music without daily practice so does she enjoy that too?

I think it’s possible to do both, so long as she’s not at a vocational level in either of them. As soon as you go vocational with one, something has to give, because of the hours of practice needed for both.

If it’s ballet, then realistically puberty will make or break her options. At that point, she’ll either have a choice or (more probably) only ever be a good amateur who enjoys dancing. To keep options open for now, can she schedule her dance mostly at weekends and her music mostly in the week or vice versa?

Thanks for the thoughts. She does five to six dance classes a week at her dance school and ballet associates on top of that. She absolutely loves dance but I wouldn't want to send her to vocational school now (if she was accepted that is!). Realistically I know that very few talented young dancers make a career out of it especially in ballet.
She plays two orchestral instruments and has a music scholarship at her school. She is great with practicing and also plays the piano for fun but doesn't have lessons. It is only now that more musical opportunities are opening up that we are finding clashes with her dance commitments. It feels like we are potentially compromising both but she is so young it seems crazy to write one off! I guess we will keep juggling until one takes a clear lead.

We some how kept triple threat going till GCSEs. Jazz and contemporary dance was at school in GCSE classes, ballet and tap on a Friday night.
Music singing classes and two choirs.
Acting classes and musical theatre group 4 hours a week.
It made a for a very focused very organised DD, there was no messing about over homework as she knew that if that suffered something would have to go.
It is possible to keep it all going.