Bellatrix

Thank you so much , it's been wonderful to hear what others have had to say. I have said this to my husband that we must let her go with this, but he's always said be realistic! If she could dance eight hours a day she would, she is all for this and not academics .

Thanks meadowblythe , yes would be great to have that crystal ball!! Will look at summer schools and I think advise my daughter to also start taking back up other lessons ! What a great place to get tips!

Thanks everyone for replying, she did singing and tap and dropped both . She did not like singing and that's how we came on to ballet because she said I want to dance! And her old teachers said this is what you need to do to help get maybe vocational level? She would go mad at me talking, but I just wanted some honest answers! She has some lessons with Tring and I must say very good, but I don't like to ask as how many parents say ,what I am asking! Summer schools look great , but funding for places at the likes of RB are just to much , plus the amount of students wanting those places must be so high. And does not help that our other children are doing uni etc.

My first time on here! I keep try to find articles on your child wants to be a dancer? and nothing seems to help me. My daughter has been dancing for a few years and really loved jazz and contemporary and was told by her old MT school to take up ballet as this was the core of all dance. I am not a pushy mum and to be honest I am out of my comfort zone around ballet schools. Anyway she loved ballet after years of saying" no way" to classes to "I love it".  She's a late starter (started at 11/12 at ballet) and is now 14.

She is with a good school and other teachers say she has the potential to get into a small company? but

I am now thinking really? I don't want her heartbroken and should she look at  maybe a dancer rather than a ballet dancer? and even then she may not get into a full time vocational dance school at 16. She has been wanting to just concentrate  on her ballet of late and get the strength and tech strong. I know she only wants this, and really lives for dance.

Is it best to start up again other types of dance? or should I just let her do what she wants? Tips please as I am lost at this business!!