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No sign of baby yet ......might need next weeks now!!!

Yes lucky mummy! Your daughter sounds so grounded and mature for her age. I seem to remember being in my twenties before I fully appreciated what my parents had done for me when growing up and before I thanked them!!

Yes me too......would love to have done this. They are so fantastically helpful at ENB. I'm now a Friend and all their Friends Open days up till the summer had sold out by the time I joined. I did express my disappointment but the lady there said as soon as the next lot are announced apply quickly etc etc Anyway I had a call yesterday to say a place had become available in June and she had remembered I had wanted to go which I thought was really nice.

Thanks for that Ellie. Looks such a lovable kid!! He does in fact have what I call the "Royal look" so especially with those feet I think he has made a wise choice for himself and hope it all goes well for him.

Likewise am seeing this too in July I think!

Here is a child dancing some Odissi style. You can see the amount of skill required for this!!

The above link in my post was for the Natalia Kremen school. I believe there's a whole thread on this somewhere in Doing Dance.

Here is some Kathak and even though some years ago lovely to see Alpana still dancing. She was amazing back in the late 80's when I was working with her. I believe she has now written a book about it. The Odissi style from the South was more based on temple dancing where all the hand movements and facial movements have great religious significance in reference to their stories etc. The other main style is Bharatanatyam more similar to Odissi. These styles were originally linked to the Hindu religion. Kathak from the North has its origins in Islam more. All these styles are great to do and great to watch and if this South Asian Dance is based on these styles it will be a very interesting evening indeed!!

http://www.nkballetschool.com/school/musicians.php I hope this link works as this course is a bit nearer( though Ive always wanted to got to St. Petersburg to see the original school too) I f this is their summer school I just heard today that my friend in Sydney's DD has just been told she has a place on this course.....she will be 15 in March.

Only just caught up with this thread........really well done to your daughter Katymac this will give her great confidence I hope!! Good luck to your DD afab too!!

When I look at the original article published I can definitely see the original colours black and blue very clearly......they are quite strong colours too.....so don't really understand why I see white and gold in the original post here And Thankyou Swanprincess for posting this!

To be honest I thought this was a sort of hoax and that they were putting out two different piccies....one white and gold the other black and blue! HOWEVER when I asked my partner what he saw.....who knew nothing about this at all...he immediately said black and blue. We were looking at the SAME picture in the SAME room. He said the black was more like a dark charcoal grey but definitely couldn't see gold!! The shade of the gold is darkish what I call "old gold" and I have a carpet in another room a similar colour( and talking about colour shades there's a whole story to be told about that carpet!!) Does anybody see both sets of colours using the same photograph?

Well there is a faint bluish tinge to the white but the gold is the gold!! I know nothing of the story of this as don't do twitter but will have to look it up!

Oh gosh this is really weird!!! I just see white and gold .....and can't get black and blue no matter how much I stare!!

I'm sure you could do both ......if it came to it that is.....teach and do some dance journalism! As you also seem to like choreography ......as a teacher you could do more or less of this as you wanted......depending on how you wanted to work etc. If you did some sort of Dance degree and then also a training teachers course in one of the major schools ....RAD for an example.....you would have quite wide options open to you. Of course all this takes money but doesn't have to be done all at once! Anyway first things first .......and here's hoping you get what I know you really want is ....a place on a full time Dance course ...so really very good luck for tomorrow ......fingers crossed

Ah well Kathak is a well known Indian dance form from Northern India and is a classical form. I studied a couple of classical Indian Dance styles while living in London and when I had given up ballet(for the second time) This was at Jackson's Lane in North London and the Kathak form was with Alpana Sengupta. It is supposed to be the origin of Flamenco. Lots of foot stamping.....but with bare feet. I also did some Odisi .....doesn't look right spelling!......from Southern India a much slower and more use of the face etc.....fascinating It's just I don't recognise "South Asian Dance" .....as a style I mean.

Well he has danced with Akane Takada a few times but don't know whether she's down to do Swan Lake. If it can't be Cuthbertson I wouldn't mind seeing perhaps a debut in this role? Has Fumi Kaneko ever danced The main role in Swan Lake? Ive never seen Lamb in this role but although I do like her in some things I'm not sure about her for Swan Lake......she's never really moved me before now! Going back again to the casting ......I'm still hoping then that if Cuthbertsons name has always been there .....on the website at least....for the 9th then "they" are also hoping she has a chance to be fit by then?

If your daughter is otherwise generally fit and well ....then a month for someone seriously studying ballet is quite a while off but I would say 2-4 weeks is okay ......definitely not more than 4 weeks.....for a young person....in ballet terms under 20! However it may depend just when that month is! For example if you have an exam or several auditions or even a show coming up soon then maybe a month would be too long. But if it's a fairly "quietish" term ahead then a bit of stretching at home or swimming etc may be all that's needed. Probably the best time to,have a whole month off is during August(after any summer schools etc) and completely rest the body on all levels ready for the next year ahead. Once the year has started though it's probably better to not have more than about two weeks off completely because there is usually just so much going on. Sorry a bit vague but it's also such an individual thing. Some people's body's do bounce back quickly into shape from a break but others may take a bit longer and perhaps your daughter felt this break was just a bit too long for her. All of the above is appropriate I think for someone who is generally well and not showing signs of stress or has been continually going down with things......often a sign the body is on that edge of fitness.

Do you know where our rehearsal is then?

ha ha Taxi!! Well I'm hoping it may be some form of Indian Classical dance just hope it's not "Bollywood" .......fun in itself but maybe not for a competition of this ilk?

I'm going to say every day "to be Cuthbertson"

Thanks too Harwel.....have also just booked a ticket!!

So sorry it was a no Swanprincess. And all the very best with Ballet West. Will you be getting some advice with the DVD etc? Also are you going to audition for Ballet Theatre UK ......sorry if Ive missed this.

Whoops sorry not LAB then .....ENB. Yes I knew about this but didn't book for the same reason as above.

What a shame .......an LAB ...ONE day one .....been hoping for this for ages ....but the date will be no good for me because don't we have a big ALL DAY rehearsal the next day (29th) for the show. Incidentally do you know where this will be......as the ENB have an event on there that Sunday?