Loopy Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I'm sure there must be a thread for Festival somewhere but I can't find it, and I'm a newbie so apologies! Does anyone know who the Adjudicator is for the forthcoming Hounslow Dance Festival? I can't find any information about it online... I'm just a curious mum... No other reason. My kids like to know if they have had the adjudicator before... I guess they find it comforting. Thx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Hello Loopy, and welcome to the Forum. I'm sure some of our other members will be able to help but meantime I am going to amend the title to be a bit more specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2littledancers Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Looks like it's Jennifer Haley . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Hello Loopy there never seems to be many comments about festivals on here DD is a festival goer and will be at Hounslow and Kingston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilac Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 My Dd will be at Hounslow for 4 solos and 5 groups! She is 15. Solos didn't go well there last year, so hope this year is better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loopy Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Thanks 2littledancers . Hi Lilac and southerndancemum, our school has no groups at H, just solos and we've never done it there before... Different venue to normal I hear? I have DD 11 doing 4 solos plus a duet and DD 16 doing 2. Jennifer Hayley.... Thx. Anyone started yet? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 We're there next weekend in a group. New venue and from what I've heard its a nice one. Only been once and the venue was not the best lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 What's the venue you have for the festival? I've got one postcode that's the third update but it isn't the one in their Web page :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loopy Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 Hi... Did everyone find the venue Ok? One of our school went to the one on the website today and almost missed her slot! DD3 has a Gold, silver and Bronze so far...but, despite the silver.. Didn't qualify the dance!! Frustrating for her. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loopy Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 Me again... Anyone at Kingston next week? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 (edited) Hi Loopy. Well done on medals! DD got joint third yest & qualified (but it was already qualified -Doh) We are at Kingston weekend after - 15th was the only weekend we could make. Oh and we were going to the wrong place as were also going to the one on their website which hadn't been updated! overall I wasn't impressed with venue or organisation bit like the photographer idea. Edited October 26, 2014 by southerndancemum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 please may someone dm me the correct adress as i have the 2nd category of the day on sat so no time to be late if we go to the wrong place! thanks x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 sent you the postcode littleballerina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemongirl Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Does anyone have a contact number for the Hounslow organiser? The number on the All England site is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I can look at the program when I get home later if you haven't got an answer by then (about 8:30) not sure if it's in there tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Does anyone have a contact number for the Hounslow organiser? The number on the All England site is wrong. it's not on the programme. We are there tomorrow so if that's too late I can ask there if you like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemongirl Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Thanks, I managed to email her. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilac Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 What did people think of the festival? We had mixed experiences! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 personally I found the adjudication weird. watched a song and dance section where 2nd place went to someone I could hardly hear and had little expression. The three is earmarked weren't placed (I'm normally quite good a getting at least two of the top three) one of the groups I saw placed were also imho below the others but they got placed. However in some of the other sections I watched I was spot on so was very confused. Didn't like the venue at all. plus point - loved the idea of the action photographer what about you Lilac? Roll on Kingston next lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 i found the stage quite an odd shape and especially in classical ballet i was put off as i found myself basically in the wings doing my arabesque- you could only fit one person backstage so i couldnt really see the rest of the section but im sure everyone was great! my mum in the audience did also agree with you and think that the adjudication was unexpected plus/negative point for me - the adjudicator spoke for agggges about discipline in ballet and how teachers used to have sticks and noone has that nowadays and thats why our technique is slipping, in japan they slap the dancers we dont brace our knees etc but was quite entertaining to listen to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 My ballet teacher when I was a kid had a stick but she used it to run along our legs to check that we were all the same height in various attitudes and battements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilac Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Found it a mixture. Also loved action photographer and made the most. Shame stage was so small, difficult for some of Dd's groups, and sometimes saw people passing backstage. Adjudication mixed. I thought she was very harsh with classical ballet where even dances which had qualified elsewhere missed mark here. Yet at same time DD did her character which she had not touched for nearly 6 months and strangely it qualified! Overall we enjoyed it, and DD pleased she had qualified two more solos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loopy Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Hi all, wow... So Tudor Rose and Hounslow done. Now at Kingston. Anyone else there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Hi Loopy. We did Kingston last weekend for the first time - no place this time but lovely festival and so friendly break now for us until Woking in Jan Good luck. What do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loulabelle Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 We're at Woking in January, weather permitting! It snowed last time our school did the festival so we didn't go as it's a bit of a trek! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 We're at Woking in January, weather permitting! It snowed last time our school did the festival so we didn't go as it's a bit of a trek! Oh gosh, yes I remember the snow!! we had arrived with the roads cleared, gone into the shopping centre for lunch, into the theatre for comp and not come back out til 6pm where we found it had snowed about 2 inches. Took hours to get home (in a beetle!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 (edited) I know nothing about festivals and have never been to any. What I want to know is: do they bear any resemblance to the competitions shown on Dance Moms?! And are any of the contestants' teachers like Abby Lee Miller?! Edited November 19, 2014 by aileen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flit and float Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Ha not really! Usually a bit classier & you don't learn the dance the few days before! Most festivals you can enter solos, duets, trios &groups - the festivals I did/know about had ballet, tap, modern, character, national, song & dance & Greek & most people entered for the majority of the solos for their age group. 1st - 6th place for each solo & overall section winners & usually now 1st - 6th too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Hi Aileen, On the whole the parents and teachers are very well behaved. I've never seen a teacher behave like Abby-Lee and have only moved changing room once to avoid undesirable parental behaviour. There is no way my child would be at a school like that! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loulabelle Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 No not at all Aileen and also nothing like the UK version either! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilac Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Woking is next one for us also. Then just Tilehurst before the semi finals. DD has not done solos at Woking for a long time so will be interesting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loulabelle Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 We're at Tilehurst too Lilac, may see you at both. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerndancemum Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Lol that question made me laugh out loud. festivals, least the ones we have done, are nothing like dance mums. I only survived ten mins of one episode of that and the idea that I'd put my DD through anything as horrendous as that is laughable. DD has made some long time and wonderful friends thru festivals and she loves going. Lots of the mums I've met there are lovely but admit some are less than desirable lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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