The Pointe Shop

2025 Model Search Application Fee

$ 35.00

ThePointeShop and Dancer's Choice Model Search 2025

Participation fee for the weekend of Semi-Finals and the Final Round Competition is $350.

Payment Deadline: Sunday, February 2nd, 2025

*Semi-Finalists will be announced on social media on Sunday, February 23rd, 2025.*

If your fee is not paid before the deadline, you will not be announced as one of our semi-finalists.

All Semi-finalists will be required to travel to Southern California for the in-person live 2-day event on Saturday, March 29th, and Sunday, March 30th, 2025 for the final selection. If you do not pay the participation fee and attend the event, you will forfeit your Semi-Finalist title

ThePointeShop Semi-Finalists will receive:

Master Class ($100 value)
Goody bag: including matching leotard and skirt ($350 value)
Professional Photoshoot: headshot and dance photos ($100 value)
Features on ThePointeShop social media

Required Attendance: Saturday, March 29th, and Sunday, March 30th, 2025

ROUND 2: Semi-Finals

Saturday, March 29th, 2025

- Master Class

- Individual Evaluations: Center & Across the Floor Combinations

- Professional Photoshoot

- Video filming for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts

*Semi-Finalists will be judged based on Dance Technique, Stage Presence, Musicality, & Creativity*

ROUND 3: Final Show

Sunday, March 30th, 2025

- Tech/Staging

- Show

*Finalists will be announced during the show. If you are selected as a Finalist, you will be one of ThePointeShop Ambassadors for 2025 and will be in the running to be ThePointeShop Model.

In addition to the Semi-Finalist prizes, ThePointeShop Ambassadors will receive:

10% discount at ThePointeShop for the year as a PointeShop Ambassador
Featured on ThePointeShop website, e-mails and socials throughout the year
Exclusive merchandise from ThePointeShop

Model Search 2025 Winners will receive:

25% discount at ThePointeShop for the year as ThePointeShop Model
$1,000 in prizes including pointe shoes and goodies from each brand
$1,800 Photoshoot with world renowned photographer Ballet Zaida
Feature on ThePointeShop website, e-mails, and socials throughout the year
Exclusive merchandise from ThePointeShop

Past Models Include:

Sage Humphries: Boston Ballet
Madeline Woo: Principal Dancer at Royal Swedish Ballet
Matisse Love: Moscow State Theater of Russian Ballet
Amber Ray: Formerly Stuttgart Ballet
Petra Johnson: Philadelphia Ballet II, Prix de Lausanne 2021
Natalie Steele: ABT Studio Company, Prix de Lausanne Prize Winner 2024
Keliah Peterson (Pre Professional): English National Ballet School
Samantha Striplin (Pre Professional): Royal Ballet School
Isabella Graves: Milwaukee Ballet Second Company
Ayne Kim (Pre Professional): Ballet Academy East
June Freeman (Pre-Professional): YAGP Finalist
Jane Woodford (Pre-Professional): YAGP Finalist

*The application fee is non-refundable and does not guarantee your acceptance as an ambassador or model.