Peanut68
Members-
Posts
2,047 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Reputation
2,960 ExcellentRecent Profile Visitors
4,963 profile views
-
National Theatre Christmas show - Ballet Shoes
Peanut68 replied to Lynette H's topic in Ballet / Dance news & information
Wonder if anyone knows about casting? Or indeed if there could be a way to audition for the dancer daughter role…? -
Young people and potential freedom of movement deal
Peanut68 replied to Kerfuffle's topic in Doing Dance
Sounds about right for this whole mess….sigh -
Can’t help but wonder how come BRB2 has recruited from RBS but no dancer from Elmhurst - BRB’s local ‘partnered with’ school. Is Elmhurst just not ‘making the grade’? I don’t intend to be contentious - just think it’s a shame if Elmhurst dancers in training tend to only get work experience (unpaid) opportunities with BRB…. It’s as if the shared ‘Royal’ title aligns RBS more with BRB…. Blue Blood means more than sharing a neighbourhood?
-
Isn’t RCS offering a ‘contemporary ballet’ course? Might be worth seeing if they offer any short courses/days Also Jamiel (posts on forum) of Ballet Nights fame teaches contemporary ballet & often does mixed genre short courses
-
Malvern Ballet Seminars (note, now mostly held at Uppingham in Rutland) Wish had gone to those years earlier! YBSS - esp. if you gain a scholarship (anything free is worthwhile in my book 😉) NYB - absolutely go for that… Best performance opportunity! And maybe some Overseas….I actually wish we’d considered our dancer spreading their wings to overseas earlier….it’s an eye opener seeing the accelerated standards (will also see this in RBS intensives here with all the - often predominantly - international students) & it’s perhaps good for our UK dancers to be out of comfort zone (within reason!) Wish now we’d used as a family holiday plan…. Me by pool whilst they danced 😉 Covid meant the first couple of years I felt they would’ve been old enough to travel alone it didn’t happen…. I do also greatly believe any extra holiday course should be as much about fun as work & also that young folk must take a break during holidays & have done weeks a year with no dance - just regular life & FUN! to add…. Just from our experience….have by no means experienced every main school intensive or other known school or individual teacher courses. There’s so much out there & I think important to make it fit around rest of family life/location/budget too. And don’t feel that just because dancer A does X course, yours must too! There will always be those dancers who do X, Y & Z courses (because they want to/can afford to/ gain scholarships for/misguidedly think they have to dance right through all holidays / parents want to get rid of them every week of holidays perhaps 😂) DO WHAT FEELS RIGHT & what’s gonna be remembered for good reasons years from now! Good luck!
- 357 replies
-
- 9
-
- summer intensives
- RBS
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
This is great - thank you Roberta! Will do a month subscription first to watch this & explore more on the channel!
-
I cringe at the dance school name here the Shimmer & Shine School’…. Of course it is….!! As bad a name as the trend for children’s nurseries to be named something all cutesy & sickly! (Sorry to be so bah humbug….) I’m sure this & future books will be a big hit but do feel it follows a real ‘painting by numbers’ formula far too prevalent in new young peoples fiction today….all IMHO
-
This has long been a topic of conversation on this forum; the terminology used! In the past after placing on more RBS waitlists than seems possible (I shudder to recall the amounts of money spent on applications over the years for JA’s/MA’s/SA’s/WL & then US/AA’s plus then Summer & Easter courses….) We’ve had no’s but then also ‘waitlist’ or ‘short waitlist’ & then the particularly intriguing one was along lines of ‘Directors Select Waitlist’ which sounded the most promising….Nothing came of any of these until got an Adv Assoc offer from one such waitlist after Upper School audition…but that was during Covid so it was a no go. 🤷🏻♀️ Did have one yes for an Easter course….so got to live the ‘Royal Dream’ for a few days at least (bit of a damp squib if I’m honest….but at least it’s that box ticked & I enjoyed getting to touch the famous Fonteyn Finger on the bronze statue in the hallway at White Lodge! But there are much more satisfying, enjoyable & progressive courses out there offering better qualify of training & better value for money IMHO…) Good luck to all! (I reckon the admin might be having fun making up terms for waitlists….but am sure it’s all the same. Sure there may be a pecking order on this but also it will most likely depend on who leaves/declines place & they will offer to same gender/similar age)
- 357 replies
-
- 3
-
- summer intensives
- RBS
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Swan Lake tickets at Royal Albert Hall for sale
Peanut68 replied to BillyElliot1's topic in For Sale / Wanted
Are these available still? Could be interested… thx -
Dance Floor for sale in original storage roll
Peanut68 replied to FlexyNexy's topic in For Sale / Wanted
Is this sold? -
Peanut68 started following Wanted! DVD of Ballet Boyz Young Men’
-
Thanks to Lynette H who - on another page finally solved a mystery I’ve agonised over for years about a clip of dance I was moved by that was regularly shown on very late night ‘fuller’ tv on BBC2 Apparently a DVD was released but no longer available but I’d love to have a copy in this format if anyone has a duplicate to sell? A download is possible which I may do too but would like good old hard copy too! Thanks in advance
-
Yes yes YES!!! This must be it!!! Thank you so much Lynette H…. Years of agonising over the mystery solved I think! Does anyone know of any way to watch the whole footage of the full length piece? I’ve only ever seen the clip used as late night filler in BBC2 but still get goosebumps remembering it. So absorbing & moving. Thank you again!