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  1. taxi4ballet
    Quite a few take older students, yes. The more contemporary-based schools seem to prefer it, in fact.
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    When I say that children shouldn't attempt these stretching exercises unsupervised, what I meant is that if they are going to do them, then they need to be supervised by a dance teacher (or other professionally qualified person) who will know which exercises are suitable for the individual, and will ensure that they are done correctly.
  3. taxi4ballet
    It would be unwise for a 9-year-old to follow youtube videos and do stretching exercises unsupervised.
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    I wouldn't do anything at all without speaking to her ballet teacher first. The sort of flexibility required for gymnastics and some other dance styles is not necessary for ballet, and can actually be a hindrance.
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    Beside a section of roadworks on the M25 is a very worrying sign: WARNING ROADWORKS DELAYS UNTIL SUMMER 2025 I mean - I know they get long traffic jams on that road, but surely not that long...?
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    I must admit that the Step Sisters' costumes did give me a slight 'Elton John at his finest' vibe...😂
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    Thans for that, and for the others who replied. I think in that case, I might contact the cinema, and ask them whether they can refrain from raising the house lights so quickly. We've seen live streams there before, and I don't remember them doing it before, so maybe it was an over-enthusiastic member of staff. I'm not a ballet expert by any stretch of the imagination (my daughter is the dancer), but I think what the performance last night did for me was to give me much more of an insight into the Ashton choreographic style.
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    For those who also saw the live stream in the cinema - at what point did the cinema put the house lights up? Ours put them on at the very moment the curtain fell, so people were getting up and leaving all through the curtain calls. Is that usual in the cinema, or was ours a bit too enthusiastic?
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    I'm seeing the live stream on Wednesday and am looking forward to it very much, not having seen this particular ballet before.
  10. taxi4ballet
    When it comes to toiletries, some places don't like you to use aerosols, so roll-on or stick antiperspirant is better, as is the spritz type hairspray.
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    That's so sad. He'd recently been playing Miss Hannigan in Annie, and I always enjoyed his programmes about rescue dogs. I shall remember the acidic Lily Savage fondly too.
  12. taxi4ballet
    Can I suggest he tries English Youth Ballet, if they are coming anywhere near you? They are always needing boys, and it is a great performance opportunity.
  13. taxi4ballet
    The thing is though, that although most of the schools spread out the preliminary rounds, they tend to hold their final (or funding) auditions very close together, so you may not have heard whether you are successful at one before you go to the next.
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    That strikes me as the sort of thing some people might say to put others off, so that their own dc stands a better chance of getting in.
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    Whilst I agree with doing your homework, and only applying to schools you would accept a place at, there is another viewpoint... Until your child starts the audition process, you (and they) will have no idea where they are in the hierarchy, even if they are an associate at a particular school already. There's no point in only applying for your dream school and one other and be offered a place at neither, when there could have been a possibility of a place elsewhere if you had only cast your net wider. You can be turned down flat by one school and accepted with open arms by another. If you restrict your search too much and don't get a coveted place, there will always be a 'What if...?' at the back of your mind forever more. There is also the question of funding. A funded place might be offered at one school and an unfunded place at another, and for those who need funding, that is a big consideration.
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    And are EU countries not taking any dancers from (for instance) Japan, Australia, Cuba, the USA either? Because if they are, and they are just making it awkward for British applicants, then something needs to be done about it by the dance powers-that-be. It seems to me that if EU companies are refusing to take British dancers, then perhaps British schools and companies should return the favour.
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    That's where regional ones could come in, and would give opportunities to more local kids who wouldn't stand a chance with NYB for instance. EYB do tour the country, but it is often several years between visits to some areas, and of course LCB is only any use if you live within travelling distance of London. NYB is very tricky to get in, and you have to be at a pretty high level, so recreational dancers wouldn't really be able to benefit from that at all.
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    It might be difficult for youth companies to attract dancers if the people associated with the company are dance teachers with links to a school. Other dance teachers who run dance schools in the catchment area could be wary of suggesting it to their own pupils in case they end up losing them.
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    The nationalities of auditionees doesn't follow that though, otherwise British applicants would only make up a tiny fraction of auditionees. The overwhelming majority of applicants are British, certainly for lower school, and to a lesser extent for upper school, so one would expect that the majority of successful applicants would reflect that. On the whole for Y7 intake, it does. Later on, not at all.
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    As far as I remember, although it may have changed more recently, they have a set number of MDS places available. Each year as people leave the school it frees up a number of those places, so it varies from year to year. Some years they have more places available, some years very few indeed.
  21. taxi4ballet
    Which dance style is she particularly interested in?
  22. taxi4ballet
    Another vote for Raymond Chai's adv/pro classes at Danceworks.
  23. taxi4ballet
    They make an offer of a place, either unfunded which you can accept if you can afford it, or you are invited to a funding audition. My dd was offered an unfunded place for Y10, which we were unable to take up. They had a particular shortage of MDS places that year, which are awarded differently to the Dada scheme. She then was offered a Dada place for upper school, but elected to take up a place elsewhere in the end.
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    Yes, and I dare say those same critics would be the first to point out the shortcomings of younger less experienced dancers in their first soloist roles.
  25. taxi4ballet
    Because it is means-tested, it all depends on the amount of funding each individual dancer is entitled to. There is one big pot of DaDa money and it is allocated according to entitlement until it runs out, so some years there may be more funded places available than others. At least that is how the scheme used to work when my dd was auditioning some years ago.
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