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Thanks Anna for merging the threads. When I tried to look on the computer for the other threads I couldn't find them which was a bit so quite helpful they are now all merged ????

Thanks for all the great replies. I might give them a try at my fitting to see how they feel and go from there ????

Thanks for the replies. I might give it a try to see. At the moment I've got blochs and although they fit well and I don't have many problems I feel as if they don't have the feel i would like them to have. What's the costing for them like? I was trying to work out the cost difference ( like what price 2 pairs of current ones would cost, thinking that's how many pairs I would go through with one pair of GM's, to one pair of GM's but I couldn't work it out)

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What about explaining to your DD's school about her plans to apply for post 18 vocational dance schools and then they may be able to offer advice on what to do?

Hi all,

I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience of gaynor Minden pointe shoes? From what I've read on the website they're supposed to last longer than other brands but I'm not sure if that's to make people buy them again??!!

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Your poor dd Irishballetmum ???? I started developing at the age of 10 which worried me however now, 5 years down the line, I'm quite content with my bust size as although it isn't the size I would like it to be (flat ) it's still smaller then an average 15 year old (I think it's smaller then an average 13 year tbh ????) just reassure your DD that just because she's started developing now doesn't mean they are going to develop bigger then she wants them to be xx

I'm hoping somebody on here will be able to give me some advice on the about topic.

Since about January I've been helping at my local dance school with the grade 1 ballet and modern class as my volunteering for my Duke of Edinburgh award. Today whilst I was there my teacher asked me if I would like to teach either the ballet or modern class in a few weeks time. I obviously accepted her offer To do the ballet class and she told me to come up with a few exercises to teach them (ie, spotting) however now that I'm out of the class and back home, I'm suddenly panicking in what to do and how to do so. So my question really is does anybody have any ideas on what exercises I could do and how to approach teaching them to the girls? Thanks ????

The Royal opera house had announced their cinema season for 2015/2016 which is timetabled as followed;

Romeo and Juliet 22 September at 7.15pm

The Royal Ballet

By Kenneth MacMillan

Music: Sergey Prokofiev

Le nozze di Figaro, 5 October at 6.45pm

The Royal Opera

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Dir: David McVicar

Cond: Ivor Bolton

Cast includes Erwin Schrott and Anita Hartig

Viscera / Afternoon of a Faun / Tchaikovsky pas de deux / Carmen, 12 November at 7.15pm

The Royal Ballet

By Liam Scarlett / Jerome Robbins / George Balanchine / NEW Carlos Acosta

Music: Lowell Liebermann / Claude Debussy / Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky / Georges Bizet

Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci NEW, 10 December at 7.15pm

The Royal Opera

Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo

Dir: Damiano Michieletto

Cond: Antonio Pappano

Cast includes Eva-Maria Westbroek, Dimitri Platanias, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Carmen Giannattasio

The Nutcracker, 16 December at 7.15pm

The Royal Ballet

By Peter Wright, after Lev Ivanov

Music: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

Rhapsody / The Two Pigeons, 26 January at 7.15pm

The Royal Ballet

By Frederick Ashton

Music: Sergey Rachmaninoff / André Messager, arranged by John Lanchbery

La traviata, 4 February at 6.45pm

The Royal Opera

Giuseppe Verdi

Dir: Richard Eyre

Cond: Yves Abel

Cast includes Venera Gimadieva and Saimir Pirgu

Boris Godunov NEW, 21 March at 7.15pm

The Royal Opera

Modest Musorgsky

Dir: Richard Jones

Cond: Antonio Pappano

Cast includes Bryn Terfel, Kostas Smoriginas and John Tomlinson

Giselle, 6 April at 7.15pm

The Royal Ballet

By Marius Petipa, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot

Music: Adolphe Adam, revised by Joseph Horovitz

Lucia di Lammermoor NEW, 25 April at 7.15pm

The Royal Opera

Gaetano Donizetti

Dir: Katie Mitchell

Cond: Daniel Oren

Cast includes Diana Damrau and Charles Castronovo

Frankenstein NEW, 18 May at 7.15pm

The Royal Ballet

By Liam Scarlett

Music: Lowell Liebermann

Werther, 27 June at 7.15pm

The Royal Opera

Jules Massenet

Dir: Benoît Jacquot

Cond: Antonio Pappano

Cast includes Vittorio Grigolo and Joyce DiDonato

Hi swan princess,

I'd be interested in this if you wanted to pm me details that would be great ????

Maybe not an expert in that area the money it just happened to be that just before reading this thread I had been scrolling through the ROH website and found the cinema season for 2015/2016 ???? good luck with trying to find a way to watch the performance/s whether it's at the cinema or the ROH itself, you'll have to keep us all updated on how it goes ????

There's a cinema viewing in cinemas on the 16th December however however there could be a chance your DD isn't in the cast for that night if chosen.

On Instagram there's an account called myballerinadiet which has some healthy, interesting (if a little crazy) ideas. I haven't tried any of them out yet but might give it a try ????

Quite a few of the schools in the area I live in offer GCSE dance including the one I go to. Its quite a nice change to the classes I do at my local dance school however there are times when it is quite infuriating when you have to repeat the same simple step over and over again as someone who doesn't do dance outside of school doesn't get it. It is definitely an option I would recommend to someone deciding on their GCSE'S. in regards to choosing options in yr 8, the local girls school choose in yr 8 as do the local boys school. Must be something to do with single sex schools

From what I gathered on the website I think there are scholarships but will let you know once I get the prospectus

Thanks spannerandpony ☺and thanks for the help threeleftfeet ☺

Sorry, just realised I posted in the wrong section. Would the moderators be able to move it to doing dance please?

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Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could give an insight to this course and answer a few questions that I currently have?

1. How does the course work?

2. What is the minimum age and grade needed to apply?

3. If you want to be able to teach the higher vocational grades do you need to have passed that exam yourself before the course? E.g if you wanted to teach the advanced 1 syllabus do you have to have passed it yourself?

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A stupid rumor one of my non - dancing friends said that somewhere in Russia, they shove you down into the splits so it ends up snapping something in your legs ( she said a version of that again but for gymnastics in China

I was watching a documentary on YouTube yesterday and the mum in it was desperate for her daughter to become a ballerina even before she was born and then once she was born she had her in the splits by the age of one month (or the cross splits as she said)!!! So it goes to show that in some countries they do push them into the splits!! ]

I'll pm you in the morning with details of a good school in merseyside that has got a good reputation x

thanks for all the replies. ive decided to get one from bloch

katymac, its so hard finding bras in any size under a 32!! even marks and spencers is hard and they usually have a wide range

I had a really good one from primark, think it was 10 pound?

I've tried primark but they dont do any smaller than a 32 band.

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knows of anywhere you can get cleared backed bras that also have clear straps that aren't overly expensive?

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I too think it's the off centre roll that's the problem not the heavy hair. Our older students make wonderful buns by making several plaits out of the pony tail and twisting them into the bun, pinning each one carefully. Plaits condense the hair and the buns are not very large even when they have a lot of hair. It does take time, but the result is very impressive!

I tried this for class today and I has extremely thick hair and it worked really well as well as looking extremely pretty x

I hope your DD gets better soon. Must be so hard being ill and being away from home. Give her my love xx

Select*from, thanks for the wonderful advice. Once I've decided what pair I'm going to get, I'll try shellacking them to see if that helps x