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Sylvie

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  1. I hope so, my dd does class there from time to time, hope he stays late on Wednesdays!!!
  2. My daughter applied to NEBT and was told they were not currently auditioning. She has danced with NYB a few times when younger but I wasn't aware they had any professional dancers amongst them unless it's changed since her day. She'll plod on dancing every day and auditioning although the travel abroad and the cost is very hard to manage.
  3. When I said, appeared from nowhere, I didn't mean I've never heard of them but that they have secured contracts with companies that didn't hold auditions so what I'm trying to understand is how they do manage to get these contracts. when you say that maybe NEBT maybe helped Isabella to get that short contract with RB is exactly what I'm thinking must be happening, which doesn't give any new graduates who have no 'networking contacts' to give them that vital first break. A friend of mine who danced for many years with a company and is now a teacher told me that it's really a case of not what you know, but who you know...
  4. Isabella Gasparini seemed to appear from nowhere and bag herself a temporary contract at the RB Co and now she's apparently been given a permanent position and good luck to her, but my question as always is how these people actually get an audition in the first instance. RB as we've discussed earlier, don't hold open auditions. Same with Sarah Kundi at ENB although I understand she was in one of their recent in the round productions. She's now about 29 yrs old and not exactly the usual age for entry as an artist. I'm just trying to understand how this all works but just can't fathom it and it's driving me to despair.
  5. Read all these comments with interest and am surprised and shocked that it's not only my DD's school that doesn't help with audition dvds, My daughter really needs to get a decent dvd of classwork and 2 variations together to send off and I don't like the idea of an amateur selfie done in haste. If anyone knows of someone who does this kind of thing please message me (greater london area) I wish everyone's DC the best of luck in finding a job out there but for us at least, from what I've read, it's going to take a small miracle.
  6. My daughter didn't apply for ENB in the round due to her committments and audition dates, and yes we certainly will ask RB about the apprenticeship application process but I do think that so many good dancers are being missed who could be dancing in UK companies if only AD's would be more open to seeing other people at audition before making a selection. Melissa Hamilton is an example of someone who was rejected by RBS and even advised by teachers at her school to give up ballet at one point. only with the encouragement and belief of Masha Mukhamedov did she make it through, but even then, it was a phone call to Monica mason that got Melissa an audition at RB company... I always remember seeing Melissa on a summer school video before she even went to Elmhurst and thinking, wow, who is that girl? she was already amazing then. I just wish that AD's would take more chances rather than stick to their usual methods of selection.
  7. My daughter set about making applications for companies even before she graduated and Berlin was the first audition she did. As it was an open audition and not pre selection, there were more than 300 girls there. She did well to get through to the end as more than half the people were cut after the barre but she vowed never to attend an open audition again! She wasn't given a great deal of guidance by her school to be honest. We both googled all the companies she was interested in joining and sent off the CV and photos as well as looking at Network dance and dance europe magazine for jobs. She always wondered why people from RBS and ENBS weren't at the auditions but still got contracts with companies, now we know The cost is enormous as she usually has to stay overnight in a hotel and sometimes with pre selected candidates the companies make you wait ages before sending you an invitation. I actually took a chance with Bordeaux and the Paris opera companies and booked the flights before she got the invite. I'm beginning to believe that it's a case of not what you know but who you know and I've told her to actually call up a director to ask for an audition rather than just send a CV and hope for the best. With Berlin, the director took one girl from the 300 plus auditioning, but I noticed later, or rather my daughter did, that a girl she knows who wasn't at the audition suddenly got a contract a month or so later, no coincidence that the girls teacher was a friend and former colleague of the AD.
  8. I have just read this thread with interest and being the mother of a DD who graduated from dance school last year I find it extremely frustrating that we are having to fund numerous trips abroad for her to attend auditions only to hear now that AD's actually visit ballet schools such as RBS and ENBS to select new dancers!. I have never understood why companies here such as RB and ENB don't hold annual auditions like practically every other major company abroad. Same with this new apprentice scheme at RB. I presume they didn't hold an audition for this or we would have heard. I don't know if they're being paid, but I know that my daughter would jump at the chance to train there and would gladly do it for free!. one of the girls they have taken on trained abroad and isn't even a recent graduate but has already completed an apprenticeship with Stuttgart ballet. Of all the talented graduates in this country to choose from, do they really need to take someone from abroad?
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