Pointetoes
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UKMasterclass with Royal Ballet First Soloist dancers & REBOURNE
Pointetoes replied to UKMasterclass's topic in Doing Dance
DD is booked on to the Nutcracker one in December -
Sounds wonderful but unfortunately DD is in Berlin on a school trip.
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My DD had a wonderful time being a lady in waiting and a Hungarian dancer. They danced en pointe as ladies in waiting and character shoes for Hungarian dance. All though they all wanted to be swans they actually felt they had much better parts. They did a variety of dances and were on stage for a long time. The great thing about EYB is no matter what part your child has they are all made to feel important.
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DD is in yr 11 and we have just been told that she is way to young to know that going to vocational school at 16 is the right thing. They think she should stay at school and do 3 A Levels and then do or Oxbridge or go to a Russell group school. They simply didn't understand that you can get a degree in Dance. They even suggest that she would end up injured and asked her what that would mean. She was fab and said 'well I plan to do A level Biology, so if I am injured I could look at doing sport science ' They had no answe to that. It's the narrow mindedness that I find so frustrating. Non dancing DD is planing on doing nursing, because she got straight A*/A at GCSE people don't understand why she isn't doing Medicine.........
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My eldest non- dancing daughter used to go to school in Abingdon and her dancing friends went to Oxford City School of Dance. Other girls in the school went to Dance Connection.
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The recommended minimum GCSE is 5 ( A-C grades) including Maths and English. I would also suggest at least one science, a language and a humanities subject. Around here you have to have at least a B at GSCE to take the subject at A level unless it is a science subject and then you need an A in the subject plus minimum of B in Maths. This is across all the local schools and colleges including state and independent. Personally I would be very careful, you simply don't know what is round the corner. Your daughter may have a wonderful career in dance but that won't be forever. They all need a back up plan. Good luck with it all
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UKMasterclass with Royal Ballet First Soloist dancers & REBOURNE
Pointetoes replied to UKMasterclass's topic in Doing Dance
Thank you. DD was sad to miss yesterday's hopefully she can do the one in December. -
Wow what an amazing story, thank you for sharing it. I wish you son continuing good health and a very happy and successful time at vocational school. Enjoy the next chapter of his life.
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DD did Dance Forward last October and loved it. Sadly for various reasons she was unable to do the either the Easter one or the summer one but she will do another one.
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My advice is simple : let them enjoy their classes Everything else will fall in place.
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That would be great if you do.
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That looks wonderful,sadly DD is away on a school trip.
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I saw it on South Today Breakfast at 6:55am this morning.
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Such a lovely interview with you on South Today, You looked so elegant and your teacher is so proud of you and all your hard work. Quite rightly so.
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I know a couple of girls who did this and absolutely loved it.
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Many congratulations
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My DD was told several years ago she wasn't classical ballet material.She was devastated but She struggled on at her dance school because she loved dancing and learnt to ignore all the negativity. After the summer holidays we return to classes as normal except she simply couldn't cope with being treated so badly. I had been saying for a while let's look at changing schools but she didn't want to up until that day. I took some advice from m a friend who is a teacher and the next day she changed schools. Her current teachers have said the complete opposite she is naturally classical ballet and contemporary. Physically she isn't your classical ballet dancer but that's simply because she isn't very tall. The change in school gave her access to both contemporary, commercial and various other classes plus ballet, tap and modern, which she already did. My advise would be to get advise from others not just one teacher plus as hard as it is if possible look at some other schools. This all happened around the age of 11/12 and she moved schools aged 13.
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Looks fantastic, sadly we are still on holiday.
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EYB only ask you to get permission from school for half a day, which is the dress rehearsal and first performance( Friday) They organise the performance license for any child who needs it, using the 3 performance in 6 months rule. Any other time of school needed is between you and the school. In the paper work they give you is a form asking if you need a license. I do think they try to timetable everything so the children miss as little school as possible. We are lucky this time because we are only 30 mins away, it wasn't so easy last year when we were 1.5 hrs away
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We are doing Oxford this year. It's the second time DD has done EYB. Yes it's v intense but a fantastic opportunity. She loved it last time, made some great friends who are also doing Oxford this year so they are all very excited to be back together. Yes Miss Lewis does expect full attendance, we are going to have to miss several other things in order to be at all the rehearsals. I wouldn't advice doing anything before the rehearsals unless absolutely necessary. We felt like we were suffering from jet lag once the rehearsals and performances were over. They need written permission for absence from school to keep your local education authority happy, it proves you are taking them out of school for educational reasons not because you feel like it. It isn't anything to do with performance license, that is a separate thing and only needed if your DC has done 3 or more public performances in the 6 months prior to the production.
