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The Grishko at BalletPro (link from Grishko site) is £240.  We have no local shops - would probably be online.  I have stitched the Bloch ones together before but that would be the extent of my ability.  Feel free to pm any shop addresses!  Thanks for advice

DD is off to school in September and they have been told to get a practice tutu.  Recommended is Grishko - it's absolutely beautiful - but we can't really afford this along with all the other expenses.  Can anyone give recommendations of something more - ahem - budget?  I have heard both positive and negative about Bloch - and I think my knowledge kind of stops there...

Advice, as ever, gratefully received :-)

He certainly will be a hard act to follow - not only as a leader but because of the personal qualities he brings to his role.  DD feels very privileged to be able to have him for this one year, at least. 

PrettyPointes i second Jaylou's post about the Bristol Russian Ballet School.  PM me if you like for specifics - really made a difference to my DD.

Well I think the very best that could be achieved is that the principal does learn a lesson about her outmoded and inappropriate actions.  Here's hoping.

Errr...both....

Thank you all for your kind wishes and wise words over the waiting as well x

I'm up for the cheese!

DD has been offered a place.  She is so excited and relieved. 

Our favourite "musicals" one is Defying gravity

She will love these.

I forgot Kate Rusby Planets

Dramascientist show your DD this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6kZ90_0eKc

It's Misty Copeland talking about what makes a dancer and it is really inspirational.  As she says, "stay strong and find motivation...it's possible."

And how great that your DD has somewhere to go that will value her.

Inspired by the care/treats packages thread.

DD will be going away in September and I will miss our long chats in the car about life and stuff.  Often those chats were the time when I could be quietly questioning or encouraging when things weren't going well.  I know there is the phone, and Skype, etc, but I also know DD is a bit the type to try to work things out herself rather than ask for help even if she's feeling bad, and I thought I'd like to put together a playlist for sad or lonely times, especially in her first year.

Here are my first two suggestions:

Dreams can come true - Gabrielle

Faith - George Michael

Anyone want to add any?

For Rambert, for this year it said "the solo you bring should be approximately one minute long and in any style.  You can choreograph it yourself or have someone else do that.  Solos will be undertaken in practice clothes rather than costume."

Sorry SBallerina, I have no idea why but I assumed you were in the EU.  Obviously you gave no indication of that, I just got it into my head somehow that you were actually from a Nordic country, and have been picturing you sitting at a desk with a laptop with Moomins playing outside a large plate glass window behind you.

I haven't heard of it either SBallerina, but as tutugirl and Friends have, someone must get a place.  It's just that it's clear there are many on the waiting list, and not many places to be filled, I'd imagine.

DD mentioned the other girls (Spanish and French) because she (suddenly) realised it was a world wide playing field rather than just a UK one.  I don't imagine institutions take students solely for the fees.  We have friends who trained at premier ballet schools in Europe and they are always amazed that British students don't seem to consider training in Europe - to them the UK is part of Europe, just another part of the wider opportunity for them.  I only mentioned it because it's been part of the discussion on some other threads, concerning how wide the competition is.

No, none.  I would guess we had the same letter that you did, SBallerina - looked like a kind of stock letter.  And from what you've all said here we've no way of knowing where people are on the waiting list, so...we wait.

So...dd has been offered waiting list.  As flutterby said, good and bad news. 

For reference, as people were asking - when she auditioned, 6 did solos, 4 did interview/physio.  Dd was the only British girl in the final 4. 

Unsure what to do now!  Dd said, "Who is going to turn down Rambert?"  It's a good question.

I remember feeling like this some years ago when DD was a similar age and her teacher was choreographing a festival dance on her.  She was naming the moves and DD was not just doing them but putting them together, linking them with an understanding that seemed beyond her years.  I thought, oh, she is fluent in a language I don't know (and it wasn't French, though the names of the moves are) - and yes, that earnest and attentive quality, of wanting to work hard, was very touching.

I particularly like to remember it on days like today, when I have had to bite my tongue over revision schedules slipping and so on.  But no, it's not just you

No, just commiserations to all who are waiting x

DD was there.  Stayed for solo, interview and physio.  Will let you know when we hear.  Waiting is HORRIBLE.  Commiserations to all who are.

I've looked at sites elsewhere that talk about what students need when going to university.  However I'd imagine the entertainment/beer budget might be less for our DCs (lack of time a factor), and healthy fuel more of one....

Yes, I remain confused as to whether the £6000 cap on funding is because places are classed as private institutions, or when they offer HNDs and a top-up BA(Hons).  Or both.

There is some information in this thread - http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/6009-hidden-costs-of-auditions/ - but we DO need that Katymac spreadsheet...

Pictures it depends on how the relationship with the university is sorted.  Not many (if any) of the schools we discuss on here will have their own degree awarding powers so the actual degree will be awarded by another institution.  Trinity Laban, for example, is a conservatoire whose degrees are awarded by City University London.  Even the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama schools (ie Rambert, London Contemporary, Central, Northern) have degrees validated by universities and are therefore linked to them.  But I don't know why they are not classified as private institutions and others are.