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    LRBS - London Russian Ballet school

    in Doing Dance

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    I can find out for you! 

     

    I have a friend at the school, and from what I understand, he has a ballet class every day (6 or 7 days a week) and contemporary most days, then repertoire and rehearsals. So I imagine about 4-6 hours of ballet per day but will find out and let you know xx

    Ideal weight for dancers?!!

    in Doing Dance

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    Hello Stumbellina and thank you for your lovely comment! 

     

    Anna and Ruth are right, this is a very old thread- I’m now teaching ballet in London and am in the process of gaining a degree in ballet education. 

     

    Although leaving vocational school after working so hard to get there was a very difficult decision, it was definitely the right decision for me, as i’m now much happier (and healthier, both in body and mind!) than I was when I was trying to succeed as a ballet dancer, a career that I simply wasn’t destined for. 

     

    Thankyou again for your kind words :) 

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    BEST PERFORMANCES OF 2018

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    Agreed! Absolutely loved Vadim in Swan Lake, but also in Bayadere with Natalia as Gamzatti.

     

    Yasmine Naghdi was also gorgeous as Gamzatti, but a dancer who has really mesmerised me this year is Akane Takada- I saw her as Giselle in 2015 (I think!) and really wasn’t so keen- but this year her Nikiya in La Bayadere was breathtaking, and her Pas de Trois variation in Swan Lake was extraordinarily musical, one of the best I’ve seen! Am definitely now a fan of her!

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    BEST PERFORMANCES OF 2018

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    5. The Trocks (it was my first time seeing them and I loved it!! A perfect balance between comedy and technicality!)

     

    4. Royal Ballet's Giselle (Osipova 😍)

     

    3. Royal Ballet's Swan Lake

     

    2. English National Ballet's Nutcracker

     

    1. The Royal Ballet School in Didy Veldman's 'TooT' (performed at Holland Park and ROH)- this has to be my number 1 favourite work of 2018!! Although not a full length ballet, or indeed even a classical ballet, I just loved the concept, choreography, music..... This piece is definitely one that I'll still be thinking about this time next year!!

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    IDTA Level 4 Diploma

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    Hi! So the day before my exam I met the children who would be dancing for me (I knew them but hadn’t taught them for a few years)- i taught them some exercises as a ‘practice run’ but then in my exam the examiner asked for specific things which I hadn’t already prepared- such as, I would usually do a warm up in the centre with grade 3’s but the examiner wanted a warm up at the barre :)

    Daytime Class in London on Monday?

    in Doing Dance

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    London Russian ballet school is AMAZING, definitely recommend!! They have an 11.30am ballet class which would suit you! The ‘Beginner’ class with Inga is about intermediate standard, and is really lovely, whereas Alyona’s ‘Intermediate’ class is absolutely brilliant but quite challenging (to provide a comparison it’s about equivalent to RAD advanced 2 level I think, although of course Vaganova method is very different to RAD!) hope this helps!

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