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Must say, adorable photos RobS! Thank you!

I’d be surprised interested to know if this is based on you being happy with current leadership at RB & wishing many more years of this? Or do you have a preferred future candidate? Be interesting to know who people have in their future planning wish list!

Well, I'd hazard a guess that Acosta surely is Heir Apparent to a certain Mr O'Hare.....maybe once he finally hangs up his own dancing shoes?

Hmmm…..I have my suspicions that the surveys are already skewed as perhaps only being sent out to certain Friends whose profile fits into particular demographics - targeted by the ROH (or its outsourced company ? 🤔) survey teams….to almost guarantee it gets the results it expects/wants & thus it will gather data of no real use IMHO. It’d be interesting to see if the same survey was carried out on here if a) we’d see any relevance/merit in these surveys (generally I’ve been finding non-Friend surveys I’ve received completely banal & pointless & incredibly short….leading me to suspect that one or other of my answers has fast tracked me to the end as I’ve ticked a box that has put me into the ‘we’re not really interested in you’ category based on one of my specifications eg. age/gender/household income etc etc And b) if us Forum readers - being a general cross section of ROH audience or potential audience members - not just Friends - would provide a similar answer profile or not? It would be really interesting to compare!

And therein then lies the issue…. BRB needs to break free & deserves its own independent governance, it’s own independent funding stream & board of governors & should not be considered the ‘little sibling’ & thus perhaps living with a second thought, hand me down culture. Bet decisions are made & money committed to RB before they get round to BRB…. Carlos himself should push for this! If anyone can get the conversation into traction surely he can? Personally, I’d like to see RB & BRB as competitors! That would give RB the shake up it needs!! To question better the programming/pricing/touring etc etc! I feel RB just sees itself as untouchable & far too safe on its throne… We also see far too little of overseas companies over here to also open up an element of competing for our custom & making RB more visibly earn it’s reputation as one of the worlds finest ballet companies (which it undoubtedly is I’m sure) Wonder why ROH does not become available to them often enough 🤔 ?

Are you looking for residential specifically or consider daily commute? If latter whereabouts are you based roughly & how far prepared to travel?

All too predictable of a world where governments look just to their own largest voter base…. Both the current lead parties in England pander far too much to the various groups who remain overtly against any form of immigration. All imho

I just think they clearly defined BRB as its own ‘Royal’ company as opposed to being RBS2…. So isn’t it time to have a second separately defined school - BRBS…?

Wonder if anyone knows about casting? Or indeed if there could be a way to audition for the dancer daughter role…?

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!

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