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Thank you Amelia, how wonderful that she was trained by Mme. Shiripina. CeliB - Thank you so much for the personal recommendations as well. I've been watching your son's journey via your posts here and on Ballet Talk for Dancers, such an amazing and inspirational story. My daughter is a fan of his and so these recommendations will probably hold more weight than anything else I tell her hehe.

Thank you LinMM and swanprincess for your feedback! We're staying at the Park Plaza Westminster and it looks like the London Russian Ballet School isn't too far away so I will definitely look into the other offerings as well. Best wishes for a Happy New Year!

Greetings! Our family will be traveling to London from the states next June and my daughter is interested in taking a few drop-in ballet classes for maintenance. She's training in a Vaganova-based program here in the states and found Danceworks and Zina Mamedova's class in her search for London classes. I'm not able to find much information out about the class, aside from the fact that it welcomes younger students. My daughter is 14 and has trained with Russian teachers for years, including this summer with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy's United States summer intensive (which has teachers from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow come over to teach for the summer). For those familiar with this specific class offering, would Mme. Mamedova's class be good for my daughter? Thank you in advance for your assistance!

Good question Anno - we submitted the photos exactly as they were in the images - left leg and at 90 degrees even though my daughter is capable of higher than 90. I never thought to query as to whether a higher leg was acceptable.

Jarthrell - there are definitely those that don't receive a yes or a waiting list spot. With so many week, age and gender combinations it makes sense that there are quite a few on the waiting list. I believe I read on last year's thread that there were people pulled off of the waiting list.