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I've always found Dance Direct quite slow, and if something was out of stock, they didn't say, just let the item wait until it had come back in without telling me.

Dance is a requisite for drama even at university level.

I'm so sorry, En Pointe.

Good luck, Jack!

What shame! I liked him as a dancer.

I haven't seen a ballet this millennium, very sadly. I can't justify ROH Stalls prices :-(

No insurance will over any pre-existing medical condition.

My daughter did not get into East 15 , the drama school which she desperately wanted to go to. It was a lovely thick letter, which made me feel hopeful for her, but in fact was just a load of information asking her if she wanted to go to a summer school there :-(

It might be the norm at some ballet schools, but not reputable ones! Neither of the schools my recently ex-DDs went to would have countenanced a nine year old on pointe !

Well done to all three of them!

Why, oh why, do we have a rationed number of "like" points for the day? the remarks on this dire programme are wonderful, y'all!

I've seen clips on You-Tube of kids with appalling technique and lack of ability asking if they "are ready to go en pointe"! Surely their teachers are ones who should say that, not members of the public?

Totally not dance, I love your avatar, Julie! We have an 18 month black lab bitch who is one of the apples of our eyes.

My eldest ex DD sometimes watches "Dance Moms" and has told me she has never seen anything on earth like the "Moms" concerned!

It sounds a nightmare, Celb!

I saw a clip from this and there is no way in the world I would watch it - it's on a par with "Toddlers and Tiaras"!

My ex DD loves jazz and feels that very often now it meets contemporary ballet levels.

She's had to take it up again, SpannerandPony, for part of her drama course at Lincoln and she has found that it's easier, and is being coached by a girl that helped teach it at her mum's dance school, but it doesn't come as easily to her as ballet did. That said, she's as good as the others, but there's a world of difference between professional dancers and actors who dance, as "Black Swan" showed.

My ex DD could not do tap because of her affinity for ballet.

My daughter had/has terrible problems with tap as a result of ballet and met, as I did, the school of thought that says if you are good at one dance discipline, you are good at all of them ...Umm, no!

I'm so pleased for you.

I will never forget my daughter's disappointment when she failed to get in to East15 drama school. She just refused to discuss it and even three years later, will not talk about it. Hugs to all dancing mums and DDs/DS.

My eldest ex-DD had "the look" and tit was beyond her lovely teacher's comprehension that with all these natural advantages that she couldn't really dance! Tap, yes, modern and jazz, yes, but not ballet!

Since my ex DD 's teacher had sent other girls to the RBS, including Cathy Marsden, and was very experienced and very kind natured, I felt it best to listen to her. That was why I spoke to her.

My ex DD did not even audition for the RB as she was long-waisted and I was told she would not get in on this alone. She's still dancing, though, for her drama course.