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  1. Colman
    I believe that going as far as you can with good form, hold it there, slowly increase over time is pretty much the only solution to that one. Currently starting doing something similar to try and stop overusing my quads. <le sigh>
  2. Colman
    What exam is she doing?
  3. Colman
    Yeah, Iā€™ve had to order Grishkoā€™s biggest size (on advice of a fitter, obviously). If they donā€™t work out Iā€™m planning to follow up with the Siberian Swan lot and see how that goes.
  4. Colman
    Does my son count?
  5. Colman
    @BeaverElliot Iā€™m doing ISTD grade 3 & 4 (one class) which Iā€™ll do the exams in, RAD Grade 5 and RAD Intermediate Foundation, which I wonā€™t. Thereā€™s a non-curriculum class too and a two hour practice session in studio, which makes four hours class and two hours practice in studio. All in the local ballet school, not aware of a lot of open classes in Dublin. Generally end up travelling for workshops and the like to get that sort of thing. For my impressions of the differences between the curriculums, see my comments in response to the OP.
  6. Colman
    Why do you want the recordings on DVD?
  7. Colman
    Yes, having made the mistake of getting a Blu-ray player recently it turns out that it does and I need to replace my DVDs. You tend to watch a laptop much closer than a big TV, so youā€™ll see the detail level.
  8. Colman
    Iā€™m currently doing four different curriculum classes, though Iā€™m only actually doing exams in two of them. Three are adult only, one is 10-60+. Youā€™ve got to the master the craft of your tools before you can make art with them.
  9. Colman
    @BeaverElliot the ISTD have a pretty comprehensive website and shop where you can download and/or order their curriculum materials to your heartā€™s content.
  10. Colman
    Since youā€™re doing them recreationally, Iā€™d take whatever you can get, or both - the graded exams are quite different, but thatā€™s not a bad thing.
  11. Colman
    Go join the ballet society. Theyā€™ll likely be delighted to have you, especially if youā€™re willing to perform with them. ISTD set work seems to me (as an adult student of much more advanced age doing classes in both) to be (on average) simpler than RAD but almost all the RAD stuff is set while the ISTD has all that hilariously stressful free work. You should be able to switch from one to the other, it might set you back six months while you adjust to the different way of doing things, but youā€™re not in a rush from the sounds of things. RAD require learning a dance and a character dance for the exams rather than just one dance.
  12. Colman
    Pax de deux and boysā€™ technique classes would be something that would make me much more interested in an intensive. Not that it would help in this case, since Iā€™m pretty sure I have our local adult summer camp that week, but *in principle*.
  13. Colman
    Unfortunately the free image hosting sites are rapidly disappearing, which means people will need to pay up. I donā€™t know what the constraints are with the system here but it might be worth allowing useful members a larger allowance on a case by case basis.
  14. Colman
    Political commentary, obviously.
  15. Colman
    80% of everything is rubbish. Always has been. We bin the 80%, keep some of the 20% and move on. And the bits of the 20% that we consider worth keeping change with taste too. (Actually, sometimes we keep some of the 80% too, because the composer is famous or the choreographer was powerful or whatever) There is a general, long-standing tendency to confuse great art with being very serious and intellectual and to downgrade anything frothy and happy. See discussions about Fille.
  16. Colman
    Even something listing dancers in order of appearance or whatever if you really don't want to assign them names. But I'm sure there were cast lists at the time.
  17. Colman
    The relationship between the ballets and the writing is pretty tenuous (to invisible) a lot of the time, so I can sort of see why he might not be enthusiastic about making too direct a link.
  18. Colman
    Iā€™m not sure that ā€œwell off people in their mid fiftiesā€ would count as a new audience even for the ROH.
  19. Colman
    In this case I think the appropriateness of the usage would have been unquestionable. Whooooooeeeeeeee.
  20. Colman
    Thatļ»æ makes it look like a single ballet, which would certainly bļ»æe an interesting piece! ļ»æ Sounds like a more interesting plot than Romeo and Juliet.
  21. Colman
    Yes, I'm afraid that's another school as soon as possible - it's not even a matter of looking for top-up classes or workshops, which it might be for a recreational dancer who wanted extra challenges if the school was otherwise satisfactory. Other kids complaining she's showing off for knowing what she's doing, mixed level classes, inappropriately putting people on pointe are all red flags.
  22. Colman
    By that standard Iā€™ve danced with the Royal Ballet. (I mean, I did a whole class in the Floral Hall with Bhavnani and Thomas Whitehead taught a class in a workshop and ā€¦)
  23. Colman
    He might do very well do better as a choreographer for a smaller company, in fact. Though I liked his Carmen.
  24. Colman
    Or lions. Or wolves. Neither species actually works like that.
  25. Colman
    Yes he has. This isnā€™t going to end well.
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