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    Pictures, they are a nightmare!
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    We have had schools refuse to authorise absence for dance exams. We now schedule all our exams to take place over the weekend and on the very rare occasion that they need to run onto a week day we only enter students who have either left school or attend a school that will authorise the absence (or have a parent who is happy to pukk them out without authorisation) It is a logistical nightmare!
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    Two of mine got in to Hammond associates from the regular audition and another two got in from the associate trial class. I’ve now got 7 Hammond associates and feedback is always positive from the kids. The multi genre timetable is brilliant and quite unique.
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    There is MIDAS (Birmingham), Graham Fletcher (Leicester) Elmhurst (Birmingham)
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    I think RBS ja applications have closed
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    While I completely agree that you shouldn’t need to do any trick sort of thing in a ballet class- I watched a ballet associate class with an ex Royal Ballet dancer and RBS associate teacher and mid way through a beautiful ports de bras he popped in a forward roll. He is a total character, but you never know what a choreographer/teacher may feel like throwing in on a whim. I teach a child who hates being upside down, we spent a few weeks doing a downward dog sort of position and then lifting one leg gradually before she happily did the upside down lifts.
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    I have 2 students with similar feet to your DD who wear the Bloch Heritage. If I had to pick one brand to visit I find Bloch has the best selection to cover a wide variety of feet, my preference is always to find a shop that stocks lots of different brands, styles and sizes
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    One of my students tried to get referred to NIDMS age 12 and was told she was too young, instead they put her in touch with one of the physios and she paid to see them privately
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    Viv, I’ve just laughed so hard at your post! The kids I teach repeatedly show me videos of dance moms style “contemporary” just to watch my facial expression contort in absolute disbelief, they think it’s hilarious to pull dance moms faces at me, how does anyone watch them without howling with laughter?! It isn’t choreographically satisfying to watch it’s just confusing! And whenever I see one of those types of pieces this always comes to mind
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    These are the closest versions to the ones the RAD are using, that I can find anyway! I’m toying with the idea of joining the RAD, (luckily I have transferable qualifications) but not owning my own school means I can’t very well go around swapping what syllabi I teach! I’ve been quizzing RAD teachers I know and they either haven’t heard of it or just can’t work out where the Discovering Rep fits in with their students. I’m hoping it takes off as it is really good!
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    Non RAD teacher currently teaching the level 3, it’s brilliant really enjoy it!
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    My parents sent me age 3 because I was painfully shy and didn’t speak to people. I can’t remember the age I actually started enjoying it, but I adored one of my teachers and worked incredibly hard to impress her, but I was for much of my childhood not particularly good (my report sheets are hilarious). My mum was told by a proper dance mum that I would never amount to anything as my long legs got in the way, which is still my fondest dance memory given the current trend for leggy dancers and the fact I amounted to a whole 5ft2! Age 11/12 I was offered a ballet scholarship much to everyone’s surprise. Then I started teaching and everything just clicked!
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    One of my students really did not enjoy the hammond summer school at all, pity as her buddy did. But as with anything there’s no one size fits all!
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    There are videos available to teachers... and computer savvy teachers (or their computer savvy other halves) can do fancy things and convert them into private youtube videos to share to students!
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    Saw these yesterday https://www.pylones.com/en/lets-go-kids/1175-gift-stylish-dancing-doll-larabesque.html?search_query=Larabes&fast_search=fs
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    Garnier micellar water comes in sensitive formula
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    One of my girls is there! She loves it!
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    I travel to London once a month and the cheapest way I’ve found is to stay at an ibis at Heathrow the room is normally about £40/£50 a night and then travel in from there. Not sure if there a similar option at Gatwick.
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    Has everyone who has heard today been a yes? Wondering if it’s yeses first?
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    DancingDuffy, as a dance teacher with quite a substantial amount of boys, I can confirm that bespoke is pretty much the only way I can sort boys ballet costumes! I hate handing out bills for boys costumes, they get very little but pay 3 times what the girls pay for beautiful costumes if you find somewhere that sells decent boys costumes please share the link! Even finding regular dancewear is a headache
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    Mnemo, that is the absolute best approach 😂
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    Nope no news!
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    Have you checked junk mail?
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