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  1. i think a lot of teachers(principals) take that attitude , that as long as they either cover the pay ( if someone else teaches and it's a premises they control ) or covers the room cost ( if paying for rooms) then they are happy to run the class at that kind of level ... you get a keep an adult student then potentially they are a steady source of income for the school , advocacy for school and for dance for the foreseeable ...
  2. and although this thread is RBS focused , the fascination and focus in other threads on the RBS and RB rather than the other fourr of the 'big five' and the likes of New Adventures ... interesting to note the 'unofficial' feeder arrangements as much as the official ones ( despite the amount of time David Nixon has been at Northern it still seem to have a lot of CSB grads - despite other conspicuous efforts to move away from the Gable years in terms of rep and other ethos stuff )
  3. as has previously been discussed in other threads there are some not quite central London Travelodges which are very well priced and a few that are 20 -30 minutes out by public transport but right on top of stations
  4. our very own @sophie_rebeccain a short film narrated by Ash ' Matty Barton' Palmisciano http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emmerdale/news/a863214/emmerdale-ash-palmisciano-matty-barton-random-acts-film/
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    Silver Swans

    this thread is also an opportune moment to remind people of the google maps overlay that @sophie_rebecca maintains Adult Ballet Classes - it;s user contributed so the majority if not all of the classes listed are ones which people have taken or know the teachers involved.
  6. Nicola H

    Silver Swans

    thankyou to whom so ever of the admin/ mod teams seperated this thread out , although i would have said 'daytime classes in the East Midlands / Lincoln' might have been a better thread title
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    Silver Swans

    i'm sure Hayley and Julie would be open to the idea if there was going to be sufficient people to make it worthwhile ( as they do do PT and private lessons in the day time) , as they don't really have the space to add more classes in the evenings ( ideal world i think they might have a third adult ballet as wednesday is definitely 'capital I ' intermediate and Monday regulars include some definite 'improvers' , as they are already using all three spaces at various times in the evening on some days ( the two big studios and the smaller room / studio off the communal area ) One of the off putting things with Ballet at Go ( both Sleaford and Lincoln) is they are pay per term and IIRC it;s quite long terms ( where the ballet cardio / barre fitness is PAYG) , where Streetbeat are now saying pay per 'term' for adult dance classes but it;s 4 - 6 week blocks and they are reasonably flexible on people either carrying over or only paying for the classes they know they can make. whereas Katie seems to be managing well on PAYG with her classes In Lady Bay / Nottingham , but that is because Monday and Friday seem to be the main daytime adult classes in Nottingham - i think Katie is now running 6 classes a week 2 'beginner' 2 'open' and 2 pointe , she's fortunate in the venue that she uses are really helpful, but then again they do make a reasonable amount of money from the people who take class with katie was well as what Katie pays to rent to space . we really need to stop diverting Lisa's thread here.
  8. Nicola H

    Silver Swans

    case of finding an RAD teacher willing to give the class if it's particularly Silver Swans ( and is there the demand for SS vs free work adult class open to all or something like Discovering Repetoire) , otherwise it's a case of persuading once of the schools / studios with access to their own spaces that a day time class is worth it ... and although not Silver Swans , if you drive Lady Bay Ballet have several day time classes in Lady Bay / W Bridgford which is just into Rushcliffe but to all intents Nottingham ( and A46 - A52 rather than rural roads) (declared bias here i am a happy customer / student of Katie who runs Lady Bay Ballet as well as taking class at Streetbeat in Lincoln ) this is rapidly diverging to something which ought to be in 'Doing Dance'
  9. which forms of the game do you find hard work to watch ? i'm suprised we haven't sold 20twenty to the US Americans given a T20 match lasts aobut as long a a baseball game or gridiron ( with all the stops for swapping players over , wandering back o the the other end of the field and so on - 80 inutes of play packed into 4 and a half hours )
  10. here we get into the stuff where people assume because it's got RB branding it's an integral part of the organisation and subsidised by the state aid the company receives, or the misapprehension that the State paying towards services somehow makes it everyone's (i.e those attending Lower Schools on MDS and those attending upper schools on DaDA ( similar rubbish talked about the NHS and on a local level when schools enforce perimeter security of their sites and school playing fields can;t be routinely trespassed on out of hours any longer )...
  11. everyone views things through one or more lenses, when those lenses are more than one it can be alternate or additive... the blindness to an issue through privilege can simply be the 'actual ignorance' of how an issue effects those who do not ft into the majority of a time or place ,i say actual ignorance as opposed to the wilful ignorance one sometimes sees when an issue is raised and people dismiss or trivialise it, because they have never experienced it ... this can cover all sorts of things - although obviously a lot of the coverage of such issues does cover the Equality Act's Protected Characteristics. i used the example of Cinderella which is play ed straight other than casting masculine presenting people to 'poorly' drag up vs. playing ti all straight with femme presenting step sisters or conversely casting it i nthe best music hall panto tradition with the step sisters as 'Dames' and Prince charming as a Principal Boy ....
  12. do you support 'Blackface' casting ? do we return the C16th / c17th when female roles were played by male juveniles ? or as is typical for those with privilege are you just blind to what you are actually saying - and still consider certain Protected Characteristics to be fair game ... (or worse that there is a hierarchy of protected characteristics ) in terms of Cinderella, the jarring aspect is if it's played 'straight' other than the step sisters ... either play it 'straight' or go the full nine yards and a have it as 'ballet panto' with dragged boys as the step sisters and the Prince as a 'principal boy' ...
  13. whether someone is an associate or not is irrelevant to WL to RBS Upper school , especially as someone who is an MA is by the very nature of it not at WL ... ?
  14. I see Jane @Terpsichore has all ready answered, although i've not (yet) taken class at Hype i do know people ( via Powerhouse and TBR ) who do take class there on a regular basis ... and Sheffield is certainly 'core territory' for Powerhouse . As a Sheffield Alumna/ Alumnus I can heartily recommend the city and the university , just a little sad that my subject got gutted at UoS thanks ot the arrogance nad hubris of the Senior team in dept at the time a recommissioning exercise took place ( holding out for status quo or nowt despite the picture elsewhere showign rebalancing of provision will end you up with nowt ) . Sheffield has a very good and comprehensive set of provision for Health professional pre-reg with few specialities not represrented across the area ...
  15. seem to be more than a few people in companies whose biog gives 'local' dance school or is rather quiet on the topic of lower school and then gives Upper Schools ... there are some bloody good local dance schools wwho do get a critical mass of decent dancers doing VGEs and so on ...
  16. if you look at many of the Contemporary Dance Degrees they include a reasonable amount of ballet as part of their core curriculum, so it is unsuprising that a contemporary CAT takes the same approach , not sure that there is necessarily all that much prior art with Lower school equivalent for COntemporary vs either Ballet or the MT type curricula ... e.g. LCDS https://www.lcds.ac.uk/sites/default/files/BA Course Summary 2018 entry.pdf or http://www.nscd.ac.uk/courses/ba-hons-dance-contemporary/
  17. I also think that people sometimes forget the amount of time that people put into other things in my youth i sailed that that took up a significant amount of time even without the extent of time swallowing stuff others were doing ( i was fortunate that my local club had people who were of national and international calibre with it as their home water - so i didn;t have to travel to find decent competition ... ) but there were still plenty of early starts, late finishes , and fortunately it beign the mid 90s and print newspapers still beign a thing , daily fitness training was combined with earning some cash ( longest by distance round in the shop including a 1/2 mile each way ride out to deliver papers to the 'lord of the manor ' ... )
  18. Cinderella is an interesting topic Drag is Drag it's performance ... the bad press that drag has got of late is not per se to do with drag Chase Johnsey;s sagas with the Trocks is not aobut Drag it;s aobut the tTocks clinging to a view of drag ... the criticism of Drag acts at some ofthe Prides has been becasue the act while the 'humour' might go down well in a male gay bar , doesn;t go down well with a mixed LGBTQ+ and allies audience as you find enjoyign the carnival atmosphere that many prides have had of late ( when not being invaded by various fringe factions ) there are various version around , Northern have a Nixon /Feeney version in their current Repetoire which is getting an airing this winter , there's also a Gable / Feeney version ( different score ) which Northern don;t currently perform and hasn't from what i can find out been performed in full for quite a while although Ballet Central do use execerpts ... the Nixon version plays the step sisters straight with female dancers ... Ballet Ireland have a Cinderella with choreography by Morgann Runacre-Temple ( interestingly another Central alumnus) which appears to have the step sisters as drag ...
  19. as I understand it CAT is meant to be a replacement for / alternative to Vocational Lower School and should be considered in those terms
  20. https://northernballet.com/academy/training-programmes/centre-for-advanced-training https://northernballet.com/academy/training-programmes/centre-for-advanced-training/course-content i don;t know if we have anyone with first hand experience of CAT who can comment on it , beyond those of us who have taken class either with AoNB adult programme or given by teachers who follow Ichino based approaches in their teaching can pass comment on AoNB and associated topics.
  21. this is arguably what CAT is meant to do ...
  22. David Kierce is fond of saying to people you have to be able to adapt ... and then using rips into some oddity of one of the companies he danced with - A notable such rant was about Joffrey and 'floppy' 'other' arms ... to meet what the AD and /or choreography demands
  23. in theory any decent stock control system should stop you ordering when stock runs out ... note ' in theory' and 'decent' 'decent' first - this assumes that there is a direct link to the same database between the website / call centre / computer in the shop and the 'fulfillment' team in the warehouse ... so as the warehouse picks and sends out the orders the 'available stock' is decremented in real time ... which means that stock accuracy dependent if it's on the site it's there ... if the links are not reliable or require intervention to update then you can create a situation where the stock holding reported to the orderign side doesn't match what is available in theory to fulfillment ... the ' in theory' relies on the following happening - receipts on the system are 100 % accurate to what is supplied - - the product is on the right 'shelf' all the time - that ' mis-picks' are restocked in a timely manner - that any damaged products are quarantined both physically and on the system while a decision is made if all these factors are a bit slack in fulfillment then it'll be more than just the occasional end of the line customer who is being disappointed ...
  24. presumably driven by availability of studio space ... does CSB's advertised half term coincide with school ones ( certainly reading weeks at the HEIs i went to didn't coincide with school half terms by design) and Easter presumably there are different pressures as well including Central's own associates and intensives ... IIRC there are 6 ? studios at herbal hill if you include the smaller one up in the gods , of which 3 are in use for the Sunday bit of 'central nights' 1 studio for Kate Webster's RAD vocational drop ins, 1 studio is David Kierce *3 90 minute classes plus any extras he sometimes runs) and the third the other three ballet classes that run on a Sunday ...
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