Nicola H

That's the fundamental difference between Dancer and Choreographer in this regard - reviving a choreographer's work that hasn't been performed for a while or simply clustering works in your current rep by that choreographer is ' doing what it says on the tin ' ... ditto the 'big 5' or however many other companies you might wish to add to that group collaborating as seen with the Macmillan season I know this may be deemed to be lowering the tone , but when revivals of Porridge or Dad's Army are mooted and casting discussed , the elephant in the room is the casting because the risk is you get <a. n. other actor> playing Ronnie Barker playing Norman Stanley Fletcher and so on ... so it;s <a.n. other ballerina playing Fonteyn dancing a character ...

That can of course be addressed by the use of portable barres , especially lighter ones much less forgiving or over gripping that one firmly bolted to the wall. I actually think some of the commercial heavy duty portable barres are over heavy - having experienced a few different types when taking class different places .

Given the variety of options freed offer it's perhaps unsuprising they end up doing this.

interested in thoughts on the topic in general , if people have different thoughts on different groups of dancers that is fab as long as there's a rationale behind the different approaches ( as has been discussed ad nauseum with adult beginner vs how you teach young children )...

what are people's thoughts on barreless classes , assuming they are run in such a way as to provide a decent warmup and stretch out before moving on to more conventional centre work ... i'm goingto sit back with my popcorn before passing my comments

there's nothing wrong with assistants - as long as someone who is a teacher is in the room , a lot of the adminstrative trivia and taking money is stuff the assistants should be doing ( the Studios i take one of my regular classes at as a rosta or half a dozen of the older girls who do reception / tea bar duties one day a week for payment or payiment in classes ... )

because funding streams ... 15- 20 yearsd ago there was a sort of scam with fundign streams in Nurse pre-reg education a 300 ( 120 level 4, 120 level 5 , 60 level 6 ) credit course in any other subject was an Ordinary Degree , for Nursing however it was an 'enhanced Dip HE ' ... thusly got Diploma funding from the DoH rather than degree funding from the DfEE

depending where she is in Nottingham , Leeds is an hour up the M1 from J25 / 26 and Brum is an hour from J24 M1 ( a42)

if you look at the St Cecilia street building in Leeds, it;s home to Northern and Phoenix as well as their community projects, the Academy of the northenr Ballet, the CAT , several associates schemes as well as the northern end that ever growing side project of Ms Bateman and Mr Kierce (i.e. TBR) i don;t think the co location of Northern and Phoenix has done any harm to either organisation and arguably gives them both acess to facilities they would struggle to justify alone

I know of a couple of 'big names' who think that is the definitive version , i think @sophie_rebecca will agree on the big names in question ...

I saw the Saturday evening , my friend Louise and I having fought our way up the M1 from Derby ... wonderful performances all round ... i agree Javier was Gloriously Sleazy as the Fiance ... this was the first time Louise had seen any ballet in the flesh ( although she;d seen various bits on You tube and saw Bourne's Cinderella when it was on the Telly over christmas) she was utterly enthralled and she thought the three pieces make a great introduction to live Ballet , with a Narrative piece ( las Hermanas), a pure dance piece (Concerto) and an abstracted narrative piece (gloria). ( and we fought our way back down the M1 as well after ) also nice to see Gavin McCaig and Andrew Dunlop doing their 'day jobs' rather than when i usually see them as part of the the crazy 'ballet family' that is The Ballet Retreat

however with the UTCs etc in the state sector there is a new emphasis on people potentially changing schools for Y10 on wards rather than the the old claims related to grammars that they wrote others off at 12 years old ...

Giuliano Contadini as Casanova according to the press release, not Javier T ( who was ''gloriously sleazy' as the fiance in las Hermanas on Saturday) this press release explains the teaser statements Kenny put on his social media accounts this morning

i can think of half a dozen other names that might respond in similar terms - names associated with BRB and Northern mainly , but that reflects the interactions i've had with those companies / people's who 'day job' is with those companies ... everyone has a price for this sort of thing , in some cases you may find it easier to , ironically, aim for some bigger names , particularly those who are no longer tied to a Substantive Company contract - who may be more open on dates 'shy bairns get no sweets ' as they say in the NE

with regard to none vocational training , how often do you notice reception duties at local schools ( where they have them - so usually the multi studio own building types) beign covered by older students ... I also recall reference to this happening with vocational students - they taking cleaning or evening / weekend reception duties (e.g. for community classes) to earn money towards fees and/or living costs

M+S have struggled with estate for a while , they have stores various places too big to be a ' simply food ' with perhaps some flostiry and a rack or two of hosiery but too small do display a decent range of their clothing offer ... - such is the nature of being a 'legacy' organisation add in their business difficulties in finding, keeping and growing their market share , their difficulties with mastering the internet age ( and the trouble they had with staple M+S products working in the Automated warehousing at Castle Donington ... ( such as the Lingerie items which have up to 100 different variants band / cup / colour within a single product )

GIGO - do they use E-registration ?

MDS and DaDA make a big input to those good enough. For those not in vocational ( and for some in vocational ) there's a lot of trading of reception and cleaning duties for class cost credit.

i have had skirts from both Just Jess and Flicflac , i would say they are both comparable and good !

size or age ?

disclosure before we go any further I worked in the NHS / NHS funded settings for 15 or thw last 20 years, 14 of those as a Health Professional or pre-reg I also have had to do a fair bit of research on dealing with getting primary care to talk effectively with less well known services , both in one of my NHS jobs ( tertiary specialist rehab - became nationally commissioned during the time i worked in the setting ) and for my own care ( absolutely no need to go over my stroy at this point beyond read my sig ) all NHS specialists and many private specialists want a GP referral at least initially ... No age limits seem to be mentioned on the NIDMS Site and the site tells you what you need to do to get your GP to refer you and not fob you off with a local service which might or might not be of any use . Unfortunately it's not a nationally commissioned service so CCG idiocy may intervene with referrals ... https://www.nidms.co.uk/information-for-gps https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/cdd883_c219753988844f42b4898900065877e5.pdf https://www.nidms.co.uk/birmingham https://www.nidms.co.uk/london https://www.nidms.co.uk/bath

if Sansha Espana is anything like Sansha UK , the mail order warehouse will be hundreds of miles from the flagship store ... (AIUI Sanasha UK mail order is handled from the hull site )

BBB is staff As i understand it , BalletCo forum has previously been threatened with legal action , by the vocational training provider whom we do not discuss

a simple google search usingthe search term ' Natalia Osipova agent' returns http://www.dalzellandberesford.com/client/natalia-osipova

which is what would be considered a 'system' purchase even if you re use parts ... I used to sail competitively and aside from the classes of boats where there was a monopoly on masts ( either supplied solely by / through the current licenced hull builder, or because the class rules say you can only use a 'bloggs type c ' , if you were buy sails the first question the sail maker would ask is ' what mast have you got ?' because the shape of sails is related to the way in which the mast behaves under load - and sails and masts are replaced on vastly different time scales, i know people sailing with 20 / 30 /40 year old masts becasue they are still good ,but at the competitive end of the fleet sails are a regular purchase ... ( and for the real elite it can be near pointe shoe consumability status - although generally there is a resale value to these sails rather than them beign dead )