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  1. Farawaydancer
    Quite! 😂 Upper school seem to get a better deal than the lower school when it comes to working with outside guests, so let’s hope that continues!
  2. Farawaydancer
    Yes, Acosta is one of Elmhurst’s VPs, along with Wayne McGregor. Doesn’t seem to make an awful lot of difference in terms of day to day involvement which is a shame; there’s the potential to do a lot of good in terms of working together but it never quite seems to work out that way.
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    Are you including the students you’ve worked with in the lower school there @Nico Kolokythas? Surely if they’ve been following your programme for a number of years in LS there shouldn’t be ‘catching up’ to do when they get to upper school? (This year is obviously an exception, everyone will have catch up to do!)
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    Always good news for the schools and students but it would be nice if he forged a closer relationship with the school a mile down the road from the company!
  5. Farawaydancer
    There might not be bones to be strengthened (sounds odd coming from a physio!) but there are definitely muscles to be strengthened in his feet! If my ds hadn’t done a lot of strength training through ballet I imagine his hypermobility would cause him a lot of pain. It certainly does in his hands.
  6. Farawaydancer
    Is there little or no evidence because there haven’t been any studies conducted on young people/dancers? Or do the studies show that pilates makes no difference in these groups?
  7. Farawaydancer
    Both of mine have hypermobility syndrome and physios were fine. Just looking at the majority of their classes I would guess it’s not uncommon.
  8. Farawaydancer
    Yes, they use the studios but they should be able to access them via a different route into the building, change times etc. There doesn’t seem to be any plans to stop their RAD classes at the moment, they were still talking about them last week during meetings with students. I’m sure they will be considering it carefully though, everything else has been very organised.
  9. Farawaydancer
    Also due to the layout of the building it should be relatively easy to keep the associates and full time students separate. They can use different entrances etc.
  10. Farawaydancer
    I think Elmhurst will likely hold their young dancer auditions at the beginning of the autumn term and start lessons a couple of weeks later. They did this one year at our centre because the auditions planned for May/June had to be cancelled.
  11. Farawaydancer
    Teachers asked if they were applying, but didn’t recommend. We treated it very much as a fun thing to do, give it a go and see what happens. Carried on planning for local schools etc. As for core strength, lots of 10 year olds haven’t got this yet - my 16 yr old has only really got this sorted in the last 18 months or so, and it’s an ongoing battle!
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    The difficulty is that it seems a complete mystery as to what the schools are looking for. Both my dc did lower school auditions and we’re successful, and my oldest has now done upper school ones too, and having seen who gets chosen for each school I’m no clearer what any of them are looking for! Neither of them were JAs, but did do other associate programmes, neither had private lessons, nor did any of their close friends. As a previous poster says, they’re looking for potential, not what they can do.
  13. Farawaydancer
    Yes, associates and holiday programmes. However Emma also runs vocational level training in a Central London called Academy of Balletic Arts, which is obviously associated with them.
  14. Farawaydancer
    Ballet Boost is run by a fabulous lady called Emma Northmore. Have a look at their website. (No association with her other than being a very happy parent for many years now, to two of her students!)
  15. Farawaydancer
    I think you probably need to formally decline the place, even though you’ve already said you would need an mds.
  16. Farawaydancer
    I think lots of the available fee remissions will also go to the theatre arts applicants because they don’t have access to any mds.
  17. Farawaydancer
    The guidance for boarding schools treats them as a ‘household’ for these purposes. I have seen some updated advice for them somewhere but I’ve looked at that many pages of education advice in the past couple of weeks I’ve no idea where I saw it!! 🤦🏼‍♀️
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    Sent you a DM
  19. Farawaydancer
    I think some of the non-residential ones are clinging on to the hope that they might be able to run. It’s cutting it fine though since the studios don’t look like they’ll be allowed to open for a few more weeks yet at the earliest.
  20. Farawaydancer
    I think the audition process and therefore the acceptance of places etc is very drawn out this year, due to the need for video submissions etc. We’ve not been told anything about September as yet, I think they’re waiting on more guidance.
  21. Farawaydancer
    Do you still have the first gaynor minden on the list?
  22. Farawaydancer
    Communication with current parents isn’t much better at the moment, just so you don’t think it’s newbies that are having trouble. We can’t get replies to emails either.
  23. Farawaydancer
    Hi i can email you the uniform lists if you drop me a DM with your email add? School should send you it all soon with the details of how to order etc
  24. Farawaydancer
    There will be at least one space. DS decided to take an offer from another school.
  25. Farawaydancer
    Hammond are still charging full fees.
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