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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.

That's atrocious, Star Dancer! No child deserves that, ever!

Bishop's Stortford College, yes?

10-3 Monday to Friday at summer school.

Julie, my ex DD was a good dancer, but I was told the RB would never accept her as she was long-waisted. She's happily doing drama now.

My ex DDs's local school had them dancing 10-3. They seemed to survive it!

Good luck!

I very much hope that this poor young man is not having a nervous breakdown, or worse.