annekh510

Very glad to hear he is doing better. Good luck to him in the upcoming auditions.

As I mentioned in my post, the reason I wanted to put the word "labral tear" out there is simply because when it happened to me it took so long to diagnose, to the point where I was googling looking for the name of specific types of hip injuries and eventually went to the physio asking "could it be a labral tear?". I certainly did not mean to scare anyone and would not have mentioned it but for the description of "heard a sound". If it were my kid I'd rather a slight concern now that it could be something that often requires surgery rather than them go through years of pain and the possibility of further damage because no one spoke up with "could it be X". Also I note you criticise others suggesting a cause of the injury (which is incorrectly phrased, a labral tear would be the result of an injury), you then go on to offer another potential diagnosis, which to me sounds like something that would not happen suddenly, when the initial description seems to describe an injury taking place, not pain with no apparent cause.

As of Tuesday evening it is displaying a login page requiring email and password. A shame as my local cinema had a problem with the RB cinema relay, so I got to listen to the first act music whilst I ate and then went home. I'd notice this in the schedule, but ended up not being able to go, though I wasn't sure I wanted to as I'd heard some awkward things about possible racism. Also I didn't know how it would be presented, I find I quite like the introduction and interviews you get with a RB cinema relay and I'm not familiar with La Bayadere, the RB relay was supposed to be my first time seeing it.

There are things in the description that make me wonder about the possibility of a labral tear, so I would mention this to a physio as it's something they ought to be able to say is either unlikely or likely, diagnosis is not really their job though they are often very good at it. The reason I say mention is possibly paranoia, but I had one and it took a long time to get diagnosed, at first failure in primary care to refer to a hip specialist and then at least one specialist not testing for it. It's the hearing a sound that makes me wonder about this possibility, I hope it isn't, it probably isn't, but I want you to know about it know about it as it is an injury that is more common in dancers (and a few other sports) than the general population and is fairly rare anyway. Good Luck, I hope it is something simple that rest will help and that auditions will be possible even if not done full out - personally, I would inform the school tomorrow as if they do have a later audition date available you will probably want to take it and I don't think it will harm his chances if they know he has had an injury, injuries are part of dancing, though it is very unlucky this young.

huh, well I'm confused, I looked at the photo above and my first thought was that's not the Clara I saw, I don't know the Royal Ballet corps well enough to identify Ashley Dean, so I simply didn't know on the day, merely wondered knowing she was injured less than 3 weeks earlier. I could have sworn the hair was shorter with some natural wave/curl and fairer.

I've looked at both their pictures and the rehearsal video on youtube and I'm pretty sure that despite my faulty memory that it was Isabella, her hair looks quite a light shade of brown, the stage lights could have lightened that a bit. I wish they put accurate cast lists online, or train the ushers better, especially with a house full of newbies. They announced a cast change at the beginning, which was how I knew I'd missed some others on paper.

I was at the Paul Hamlyn performance and this was not the Clara that day, unfortunately I didn't get a cast changes list (nor did I get a program which were free that day), it being my first time at the ROH. I think Clara was Isabella Gasperini, but I was sat quite far away and am guessing based on the blonde hair and the fact there was a rehearsal broadcast with her and David Yudes, due to injury. I thought Benjamin Ella partnered very well, but his solo on the day I saw him was not quite up to standard, perhaps it was good his debut was to a more forgiving audience. The highlight for me was Beatriz Stix-Brunell as The Rose Fairy, though this did raise an interesting question, in the section where she demonstrates to Clara and Clara then copies her I felt Clara danced a lot worse than her - well it wasn't bad, it was neat and small when some of the steps can travel a lot more. I didn't remember noticing this in the 2017 cinema relay and I was able to find this section online from that relay and Francesca Hayward matched the Rose Fairy. Unfortunately the whole of the Waltz of the Flowers looked under rehearsed, the eight "corps" flowers were fine, but both the 4 men and the 4 leading flowers had moments lacking synchronicity. Marcelino Sambe also outshone the other men, I'd never want to take away stage presence, but I'd prefer it if they all jumped to roughly the same height.