Kat09

What lovely news - congratulations to you and your DD ... wishing her lots of success x

This is Fabulous xxx

Anyone heard from fridays Rambert audition? They said Tuesday but were still waiting...

If anyone has a spare ticket for 9th 10th or 11th please let me know - Thank you 

I am sure you are right. At the BW audition the principal made me a cup of coffee while  dd was warming up. Somehow I cannot imagine that happening at any other vocational school. Simply lovely people. Now I had better leave this thread to the Rambert folks.

3rd year at Voc school - I have never been made a cup of coffee - BW sounds lovely , good luck to your daughter

Really looking forward to seeing this

Have you looked at RAD BA (Honours) Ballet Education? 3 year programme to teach - entry requirements - All three of these requirements must be met:

• Three GCE A Level passes (Grades B, B, C) or equivalent.
• RAD Intermediate or equivalent standard in ballet.
• English Language Proficiency test required for applicants whose first language is not English.

more info at RAD.org.uk

PS. definitely worth trying at Rambert - if you don't try , you won't know - good luck

Do SA's get a place automatically, I don't think they do but thought I'd ask?

No they don't (in fact, in our past experience, very few get a place)

I am told that the DaDa guidelines stipulate that to qualify for funding the dancers have to attend an audition altogether. If some have been offered places prior to the final auditions then they must be self funding.

Many of these early places are given full scholarships from the "pot of benevolence "

Biscuit 11 February results are out from ENB- so far as I know both yes and no results so I would get in touch if I were you. Good luck.

 

Anyone know numbers at finals for ENB last year and how many places?

From memory around 30 -35 at  (girls) finals and approx 30 places ,split between boys and girls - good luck

My advice would not to be to take a 2nd mortgage!!

We received an acceptance on April 2 last year after applying when applications opened.

As everyone's path through life is different, I am a firm believer that the opportunities that present themselves to the individual are the correct Ones for their journey. As one door closes, another door opens. Don't mourn what is not meant to be but joyfully embrace what presents itself. Our culture seems to be so hung up on success or failure as defined by someone else - I love the approach that nothing is a failure but a step closer to success. Your own individual success. Have a dream, follow that dream but be open to the fact there will be kinks in the road and those kinks are taking you to where you are meant to be.

Thank you for writing this Harwel .... it's just what I needed to read as one door is slammed shut .... looking forward to the next open door

Seems odd that it's in September, hardly gives people returning back to school at the beginning of September a chance?!

It was the same when it was held in London ... it did seem to disadvantage those from the Western Hemisphere in terms of intensive preparation . My advice if you are considering competing is to get as much performance experience as possible. In certain countries competitions are the norm from an early age and the confidence this gives shines through.  

The thing is though, that for upper school, you only get one crack at the whip, and it is rather disappointing (to say the least) that the AD doesn't even bother to turn up get to see you dance at all.

too busy recruiting overseas talent at PDL

Good luck to your daughter - hope she has good news soon!

CeliB I'm chuffed to bits for your DS and you as well xx

I have sent you a PM

There's some feedback here, Kat09: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/13058-summer-schools-2016-feedback/

Thank you Anna C

Does anyone have experience of SS at Rambert School - good or bad experiences, please share.

Does anyone know the reason why the Young British Dancer of the Year Award has been stopped? It was such a valuable opportunity for British classical ballet dancers.

I believe the sponsorship was withdrawn ... as you say a real shame

Lilac from what I have heard from others, Rambert values creativity and choreographic skills in dancers above everything else. I have also heard that not everyone who applies is necessarily offered an audition. So you have already passed the first hurdle. I would be surprised if experience in pointe work was a deal breaker - neither Elmhurst preliminary nor the Ballet West audition included any pointe work at all.

For a £50 application fee I would hope that all are offered an audition

UPDATE Pride comes before a fall...I did not check the link (rather the address) of the website, so I was wrong about the original theatre website.(which referred back to the wikipedia)

 

Of course the original choreography was by Petipa & Petipa...the naming of the ballet is originally referenced as Satanilla rather than Satanella due to the translation of the cyrillic alphabet.

always thankful for knowledge shared by those more learned than myself - thank you

SBF there is no need to take that rather unpleasant tone in your post.

 

The OP doesn't have to justify herself.

 

Furthermore I frequently find that Wikipedia information has to be taken with a huge pinch of salt.

Thanks Janet ... I have done research I just need to quote an authoritative source - Wikipedia is not regarded as such!! Swissballetfan ... how rude!!

Oh, and you do know about Westminster Reference Library's excellent selection of dance history etc. books, don't you?  I think they're even available to borrow now.

Thank you Alison - sadly I'm not in London