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On 12/03/2024 at 14:37, Jan McNulty said:

Back in 2017 the RAD partnered with Marylebone Cricket Club on a new primary school project aimed at encouraging more boys to do ballet, and more girls to play cricket.

Reading the RAD article, this part made me laugh...yep, we actually need more boys to take up dance & need to put an awful lot of girls off from doing it as way way too many with the same dreams/talent/training but but not the jobs for the vast majority the end. move girls This almost suggests they want to move girls into other fields! To be fair, many would be wise to do just that....wonder if there are more properly paid jobs in cricket for female players than ballet dancers?? Hmmm....

Why so few Southern slots?

Bournemouth or Poole or Winchester would be a great addition….I could easily go then too! 

My inter at 50 was a sort of ‘Bucket List’ wish list to do…. Maybe I could make Adv F a goal for 60 😂

I reality think that could only be possible if moved less rural &/or could find & afford a teacher for private lessons….

Good luck with your Inter too! 
I loved the Inter pointe work (esp. the barré exercises!) & really wish I’d had longer prep time & had kept it up! 
In reality were I ever to do another exam it’s more likely to be grades 6 & onwards as no pointe & I hear nothing ce & dancey but never really seen syllabus. Again, nothing near where I live though 

I did try watching that way a few months ago but it was not great quality…(might work better on computer or TV screen rather than phone of course!)

37 minutes ago, jules_skichick said:

I'm about to Whatsapp you Hiya.  Can I have this ticket please

Of course…will contact now & thanks!

9 hours ago, LinMM said:

You do not say where in the House the ticket is!! 

I bought it so long ago when tickets were first on sale & bizarrely the QR code ticket just says row & seat number…

Still available! Will have to return to box office before noon tomorrow…

Off topic but relevant to discussions here about strange allocation of budgets perhaps….

Saw local arts centre jobs posted… the massive disparity between a marketeer told & technical staff really grates with me…. So much money spent on a role to presumably find out what audiences want etc (hence all the blinking surveys these folk send out ti justify their existence!) yet the tech teams who help create the actual magic of theatre that is what brings audiences back are paid paltry minimums…

World gone mad

8 hours ago, jules_skichick said:

Hiya.  Can I have this ticket please

Have sent you a pm…

I have visions of ballet dancers being corralled in to then go through a sheep dip pen!!😂

It’s a very hard slog trying to gain financial support from outside funding organisations/charities & you are right to worry how longterm this could be…. At the time many years back we got so far along the line for what could’ve been very significant funding & told to apply the following year as then we’d likely have a yes…. But by the time it came for applying the following year, the eligibility criteria had significantly reduced & meant it was not an option anymore. 
Also the application/decision timescales can be impossible for the school year dates. We only heard the ‘no’ in the august so would’ve had to commit to a place (not Hammond in this instance btw) & paid deposits etc in case we’d had a yes…I do empathise with those on this journey. 
We were lucky subsequently at schools to have had generous bursary funding & then later MDS - so again, options do sometimes come up later!

To add, it is still worthwhile approaching charities - especially any local to you that support the arts - but probably more for the add ons;- we benefited from receiving amounts annually (usually between £200-£600 so not an option for fees really). But they very much appreciated grants that enabled attendance at Summer Schools, entry fees for exams, to buy a few pairs of pointe shoes, assist with travel costs etc. These were less full on to apply for than any major financial help & the onus more on the recipient to provide info about what a bursary could help with & to provide regular updates on how used etc. Was lovely to have local support which also meant people follow development with interest! 
Good luck all x

On 21/02/2024 at 12:31, WhensMyDayOff said:

I've sent you a DM!I had issues whereby my local school were sadly not supportive. And the galling thing was the only other one up for Inter at the time was I think 19 or 20 so hardly a child with safe guarding an issue… she did however have a rather interfering mother who clearly disliked me & I suspect swayed the teacher to make me unwelcome for this. Truly sad & wrong I’m so many ways. And I’m not in any way a threatening or bitchy person to have in class - honest! 5 years on I’m still saddened…. But I quite by chance found another teacher/school with one other adult wanting to take Inter too! And 3 months we take the exam at RAD HQ!! Probs a bit rushed as had to fit around the other dancers timeframe - only a few weeks in pointe shoes after 30 years was perhaps a little ambitious….!! Allow me an ego trip now…. I got a high merit - same as the seriously dancing girl from my usual school so HA! What’s ironic is they are now training to be a teacher so I truly hope they reflect back on how I was treated & learn to stand up for fairness & not be bullied by aggressive pushy parents!! Just to say, I don’t think they would’ve minded me in the class….just was the mother I’m pretty sure….

It was not sustainable to carry on with high level classes as nine at local school & the 3 months travelling 25 miles between school runs twice a week did cause much family conflict….but, I did my RAD Inter aged 50 & am proud of that. But deeply sad to say since I’ve sunk back down to a very recreational once a week dancer & have had some injury/falling to pieces issues making a grande plié a thing if the past…. I do muse on to think had I not just pretty much stopped (with Covid exacerbating this) but gone on to a regular Adv F class (has I been able to find one anywhere) then I might now be on Adv 1 or 2!!! A girl can but dream…. 
Good luck to all those still pursuing the feeling of achievement working towards & then taking an exam does give you! Enjoy!

(I’m sorry if I sound a bit self pitying….I am as I miss it all so much 😢) 

Guess what I’m really trying to say to any dancer of any age, is don’t let others put you off & if one option says no, you will find another so GO FOR IT! 

12 hours ago, Roberta said:

 Though pillar boxes are rather more difficult to alter than ciphers on drapes! The ER cipher was put in place in June 1952. 

 

 

 

Are there photos of the previous ‘G’ curtains? 

I should’ve clarified that this is their Sadler’s Wells performance in London as opposed to a NY show!! 

Row C Seat 10

cost £38 + £3.50 fees

Show is sold out

I seem to recall ENBS had even asked for a more detailed Dr form for a Spring/Autumn intensive….& we certainly had to pay for them to complete a form for a USA SI

Is there a link anyone can share to see venues/dates (if still time to see!) Thanks

Very well put Jamiel!

Certainly I cannot provide documented info! But do hear that students I know get tickets very regularly. Again, these will most often be last minute opportunities for unsold tickets. I have no real problem with this except that it is not money generated & as it is clear shows can sell out I feel RIH needs to address their marketing/sales/programming/pricing so all shows sell out! 

I agree wholeheartedly with your first paragraph TSR101 but also am mindful that moderators may well have to be rather restrictive where businesses/charities are concerned hence suggest not sharing on forum. 
 

I. I stately fill out ROH surveys but they ask no useful questions nor less anywhere that I can see!

I actually had deleted the email as knew I wouldn’t be able to attend the 2 dates that the discounts were for so couldn’t help anyhow…. But still feel it’s crazy to offer some discounts & not to all & how they must target these too. But am mostly disappointed that there should ever be a need to offer such discounts or gift so many as they seem to do to RBS students & ROH staff to fill seats. I say again, if programming was what audiences wanted to see & prices at what audiences are prepared & can afford to pay then there would be no need. To add, I am not saying the MacMillan wrong choice / just I think in general there should be more lower priced seats available for all productions. So tickets may sell out super quick & tgat may make the powers that be think ‘wait, we could’ve charged more’… well surely that’s way better than finding poor sales mean they say ‘help, we need to reduce prices’ 

Why do they not ‘read the room’??

It’s the very first time I’ve ever received an offer for discounted tickets!! It does seem bizarre that the first time I get any offer is only after the very first time I’d paid for top tier seats (£140 tickets to Manon - gulp) So if that’s their marketing decision it seems bonkers & unfair. Why market discounts to people who have clearly shown they can afford expensive seats…. (Though I stress my expensive sears were a one off Xmas gift… back to way up to top of amphi for me next time!) 

5 hours ago, Jan McNulty said:

I don’t believe VFB company members were as well looked after as company members in other UK based companies.

 

 

I guess there will always be tiers of pay as in many industries…

but I would be interested to know the pay/working conditions for VFB & how they compared with that gold standard 52 weeks a year PAYE with benefits contract I imagine dancers with companies that have arts council funding are on….

Yep

Quite! I want fair pricing for all! For me that means fair & affordable at outset of selling.

Then there would be no need to offer mid-season sales!