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Hello everyone, I am looking for a private teacher for my daughter (who is a gymnast) to master multiple pirouettes including fouette. We are located in North-East London. If you are interested or know someone who might be interested please send me a PM. Thanks!

Thanks everyone again and Happy New Year!

Thanks again, everyone, this is very encouraging to know that there is a possibility to combine gymnastics and dance and we are not too late to start ballet classes again. Do I understand correclty that whatever style we choose in future, the ballet classes are still essential for any style and even if we do for a start a lesson per week it is still worse doing?

My girls definitely do not want to give up gymnastics, but it is getting progressively more difficult with years and also gymnastics-end-of-career age is very young... So I started to think of an alternative for the future.. A question to all - what age did you or you children started to dance and was it many hours per week from the very beginning? And another one - do all ISTD and IDTA school follow the same curriculum in ballet re ages and grades and program?

Yes, they do compete and we have plenty of medals at home Their gymnastics teacher recommends ballet classes to master the posture and pirouettes but as I said I don't think 45 minutes per week group lesson at local ballet school is enough and I doubt that those of you who do ballet professionally ever did it only once a week for 45 minutes That is why I was thinking of a private ballet teacher. However, recently I started to think of retraining them from gymnasts to dancers but as I can see from spannerandpony and many others' replies it is not straightforward and may be even too late having wrong groups of muscles developed....

Thanks, it looks interesting indeed. The most interesting part though from age 12 only but I will look into it. Thanks - will try there as well

Thanks, yes I do understand - basics is important. However we spent 2 (or 3 ?) years in our local ballet school and we had no progress and I don't think it is possible to learn even posture and basics in 45 minutes per week. By now their posture and balance is much improved but it took 5 years of gymnastics (rhythmic) 10 to 15 hours per week. Am I naive to think that having this amount of training they still will not be able to "shortcut" some basics? I don't see how they can benefit from 45 min lessons of basics

8 and 10. Do you have something in mind?

Thanks for this, searching...

Thanks, I will try to google freestyle dance, it maybe similar to what I was looking for. Do you know any schools that teach free style? We need it though to be really hard and challenging as my gilrls got instantly bored at the local "ballet" for children, which doesn't even include any stretching, just tapping and clapping.

Yes, I have looked at aerobic, it's not exactly what we are looking for (((. Maybe some ballet schools do have more of modern dance?

Dear all, First of all - Merry Christmas to everyone and lots of success for the New Year! Could you please help with finding a good modern dance school in North-East London? My daughters are gymnasts and I am trying to find the dancing style combining high level ballet skills and acrobatic elements but haven't succeeded so far. On youtube there are videos from USA, Australia, Canada of this kind of dance (like the ones of Sophia Lucia, Autumn Miller, etc) but none of them from UK Thanks a lot in advance!

Thank you all!

Thanks a lot, yes, this is the the thing. However, I am also unsure whether it is safe to use for children and whether it would make a big difference fort them

If you are in London I could probably recommend you some clubs, I even know some outside London by now

Dear all, Let me introduce myself, I am new to the forum. I have two daughters who are doing gymnastics and need to do more ballet training, particularly pirouettes. I wanted to ask two things - firstly, I wanted to find a teacher for my girls to learn how to do multiple pirouettes, privately, preferably at our place in North-East London. If someone knows someone or could take it up could you please send me a private message? The other question - I wanted to buy this wooden thing that you could stand on and turn to practise your pirouettes - could you please help me with how it is called? I would also appreciate if you could give your opinion whether it helps or not in training multiple turns?