Nicola H

Fair enough ... Guiliano's replacement at the top table do we think ? ( perhaps via a season or two at FS rather than straight to LS )

Suprised you didn't include Mlindi in your list of Northern ones to watch... ( unless you think this year will be quiet for him and the next promotion come in 2019 ) Gavin will be pleased with your suggestion he's one to watch ... Northern's rosta overall is pretty good although i think changes may be in the pipeline some closer to popping out the end than others

i think it's more the career pyramid thing , also AIUI most dancers are on fixed term contracts and there;s no obligation to reivew , so the however long / whatever age corps dancer falls off that conveyor without the means ( hang glider ? ) to jump the gap to the soloist conveyor

and ironically this means the greter artistic risk and innovation is among those companies without these overheads ... which allows BRB and Northern the freedom to do what they do ... which allows New Adventures to be new adventures etc etc etc ... now the interestign thing is at what point does a Bourne or Tindall ( or whoever) piece become enough of a banker that RB want it ?

Academies and 'Free schools' are not bound to the National curriculum in the way the rump of LEA schools are https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school/academies

Shock horror ! Nicola agrees unreservedly with Kate on something ;-) if the offer is made in terms of specific grades in specific subjects n that stands unless the HEI is faced with significant numbers of offer holders missing their grades ... ( or more than the usual numbers built into the assumptions admissions tutors use for missed grades / late changes of course / those who simply fail to show up at the start of term)

The immediate answer is the supervision issue - unless the school is bad enough to have a permanently staffed sin bin or lucky enough to have a full time staff member in the library who is employed on a contract which allows them to supervise none sixth formers who will supervise said child ? 'extra' academic work ? often viewed with suspicion , vs the risk of injury / opportunity to use that time for home work / directed study because the physical activity is replaced with dance arguement There is also the issue of those outside a CAT or Associate scheme that the dance training will be viewed solely as extra curricular hobby stuff ... I know the past is a different country and all that i suspect that one of the reasons in the deep dark past the secondary schools i attended were happy to allow me time to attending RYA regional / national training events was because they were National Governing Body organised events and therefore could count as , what in modern parlance is terms ' alternative off site educational provision' - much the same as an official school organised field trip counts for that. I don;t know about the serious gymnasts etc but the one or two hours a week of school PE classes don;t seem to be an issue for other sports/ physicla activities

I think part of it is the percieved prestige of a HEI offering offers which are phrased in p points in named subject X, q points in named subject Y ... in the old 1990s UCAS points ( where A at a level was 10 points and E 2 points so offers for university ranged from 4 to 30 points) some HEIs used to state that the General Studies A levle could only count for 2 points ... the now Ruseell Group / red brick and the 1960s foundations tended to state letter grades in named subjects where the ex-polys made offers in points ...

undies under leotards is a individual thing at the end of the day , ' doesn;t show' is the rule/ convention most people will stick to especially for uniform / exam / show ourposes . whether you wear a bra will depend of the ampleness of your bosom and also the styling of the leotard - some leos do have linings / shelf bras etc ... others are sold on the basis their back is high enough and their shoulder straps both width and psotion are there to cover up a bra... Sometimes doesn't show also goes a bit by the wayside , but that;s primarily in classes without a uniform - e.g. contrasting colour racer back bra/ crop top under a scoop back leo ( or normal straps sports bra / crop top under a racerback leo ) e.g a few brightly coloured sports bras / crop tops on view at TBR under normal black / navy / whatever leos There are times and reasons why a girl / woman will need to wear knickers , even though some will say don;t wear knickers because you are all ready wearing tights and the leotard - high leg / thong no vpl knickers in skin tones may well be a good idea

If it's easy then 1. You are doing it wrong. 2. You aren't working hard enough.

You can work towards it but you won't necessarily get it until you have learnt how to turn out properly... even then pelvic anatomy and thigh size can be a limiting factor. The 'adult beginner's 5th' tends to initially be either somewhere between a correct 3rd position and a correct 5th or a very closed up 4th... your teacher needs to be the guide on developing your fifth and whether you should do exercises others are doing from fifth from third or from your best effort at fifth.

clicking the link in TooTu's post took me to the childrens sizes ones ... with a sizre chart clickable on the page

not really ( and there's a risk that might turn a bit ' four yorkshire ballerinas sketch' ) in my teens i sailed small boats ... this meant in a typical spring / summer / autumn week that i'd sail 2 evenings one racing at the club, one with school either general sailing or teaching and at least one full day at the weekend ... plus a week's 'summer school' organised by the regional RYA and a week;s racing as thefamily holiday , plus any full weekend events, plus 'winter training' ( a series of weekends organised by regional / national RYA teams looking towards national youth squad selection ... on top of that i rode 4 -5 miles a day on my bike ( paperround ) - sometimes double that in the holidays as we'd cover for each other either doing a second morning round or covering for your evening round opposite number - when the UK still had daily local papers produced in the afternoon ... and walked a mile and half each way to / from school, and for a good chunk of Y10 swiiming for two full lunchtimes a wekk doing lifeguard training ... even this was towards the lower end of what the serious people were doing - the real hot shots woud be on the water all weekend every weekend and have planned gym rountines on top of their walking / cycling / running to get around the place

shoes - i would talk to your teacher , there does seem to be an amount of mythology around when someone should be allowed canvas rather than leather and split sole rather than full sole ... funnily enough i've never seen a class description for adult classes mention anything about shoes other than to have them and to reserve them for dancing ( different kettle of worms when it comes to classes including pointe work and whether people are expected / required to wear soft blocks or their pointes for entirity of the bare or whether the barre is split into a soft section and a pointe section ) Cara is correct about the tights thing - see also discussion in the US about the wearing of hosiery in general and craziness that the US press has over the duchess of cambridge and now Ms. Markle wearing hosiery in line with the norms expected of British polite society ...

A level or equivalent means level 3 in the (England and Wales ) NQF ( the SQF includes the the 'remedial' levels in it where the E+W calls them entry 1/2/3) for those brought up on the old qualification systems NQF1 is the academic level of a CSE grade 2 or below / letter grade GCSE D-G , NQF2 is O levle / CSE 1 , GCSE C or above , NQF 3 is A level / BTEC national .

Glad to hear you had the opportunity to try both Munchkin... David's classes are fab and anyone who has taken a class with him will undwrstand why TBR is so popular as well

this is a thing , you look at different schools and their histories and linkages ( including some not so obvious ones unless you do your research - like the links between Herbal Hill and Quarry Hill )

'your' bank or building society will generally accept obselete coins and notes to deposit into your account even if they won;t change them ( which if it;s a current account you;d be able to draw on within minutes) ...

in relation to clothing ? a company which Beyonce is an investor and has had some creative input ...

Define ' shaking' in this context ... providing advice on injury remotely is fraught enough as it is but without a clear understanding of the symptoms and signs it;s near impossible. The Surgeon is probably correct in that Invasive procedures for cartliage issues can do more harm than good.

AIUI there has been a move away from treating Y11 as a separate thing from a vocational training point of view - instead veiwing y10 +11 as one block , due to the difficulties faced by someone 'invited to leave' at the end of y10 ...

the problem in the UK is the ideological opposition to having selective state schools , if you look at LIPA they have the original LIPA which is a HE establishment , there;s a 16 -19 establishment and a primary school, however they can't / don;t won;t have 11-16 provision as this would not be able to select in the way that the sixth form and the HE parts of the organisation do . while there is 'specialism' in 11-16 it;s not actually specialism in the sense that it would need to be for pre-professional performing arts education ( i.e. selction on performance / potential , training equivalent to CAT if not better ) so there's little or no actual selction other than in the few areas where grammars were not killed off by the ideological crusade of anti intellectual socialism and ' pull the ladder up behind me so called socialists'... The original CTCs in the 90s ( and when GM was in full swing) were allowed to select their entry based on aptitiude in STEM , but as part of Blairs commitment to education, education , education, that was taken away alogn withem and other GM schools back under the dead hand of county hall until the cronyist Academy scheme was invented...

which is supply and demand at play ... also dare i say it , where administrators/ (academic) teacher-managers and the like have come from none vocational sector a bit of snobbery over the plebs who get in on MDS ...

you know what happened to the last couple of (astro) physicists who thought music would be a hobby ... - Prof Cox and Dr (squared) May ...

https://www.ciwf.org.uk/farm-animals/cows/veal-calves/#higherwelfare suggests a sort of accomodation along the lines of at worst an equivalent to 'barn egg' accomodation for chickens through to a true freerange setup