DarlingDD

I saw the film advertised on an email from the ISTD and myself and DD watched this yesterday at a Curzon cinema in Knutsford (I'd never even heard of Curzon until a couple of days ago).

The younger students were amazingly flexible and it was very interesting to watch.

I expected the cinema to be fairly full but there was a total audience of 5!

I think Darcey Bussell did a Pilates DVD. Not sure of what it is like but would think it would be geared towards dancers

I really enjoyed that. Thank you for posting as it was wonderful to watch and so different from ballets performed today.

Thanks for the info Lildancer96. We are going to the open day in Manchester in June which DD is looking forward to. I think it may be a little too much for my DD as she is going into year 11 in September but we'll see how we feel after the open day

We are interested in the CAT scheme at the Lowry but looking on the website it states that it is 6-8 hours a week, which on top of school and normal dance classes seems an awful lot! Do the students drop their normal dance classes and just go to the CAT scheme as I think it would be a real struggle to fit it all in.

My DD has been at the school from the age of 3 and loves it there doing ballet, tap and modern. She cannot wait until she is old enough to audition and hopefully start at the upper school. The actual school may not look from the outside as particularly appealing but the standard of teaching is excellent. As far as I am aware, the upper school used to take a lot of Japanese students but over the last few years I believe a majority of the students are British.

The lower school and upper school perform in a show every year at the Brindley in Runcorn and I understand the the upper school also go on a small tour of schools in the area to gain experience in company life and going 'on the road'. There have been graduates who have been successful in ballet who are in companies in Wales and also Serbia but I think a lot of the students go on cruise ships and also teach.