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  1. You say you use elastics already, but where are your elastics placed? My daughter's heels 'disappear' when she goes up en pointe in every shoe she's ever tried. No way we could just use ribbons, so we sew invisible elastic right at the back of the shoe in a loose loop. Finally managed to get a photo small enough to upload. It's not great, sorry.
  2. Ballet Boost uses Rambert School in St. Margarets as it's London venue.
  3. Timetable and class length depends on the centre and the level. I think London has more classes per term than the other centres, and junior classes are shorter than mids, which are shorter than seniors.
  4. Ballet Boost definitely don't require the perfect ballet body, or flat turnout - my daughter doesn't have flat turnout, and her BB class has varying shapes and sizes. Totally worth auditioning.
  5. Ballet boost depends on centre and level - Seniors in London is more like £300 a term.
  6. I can't comment on NYB, but EYB has lots of kids who've done it multiple times. However, since EYB's a lot less selective and works in so many venues each year (so probably 600+ places available a year?), that is less of a issue.
  7. Not sure if this is useful, but my DD started grade 5 and IF at the same time, when she was just turned 11. She took grade 5 (age 11), IF the next term (12), did grade 6 two terms later (12) and intermediate the term after (13). I know a most girls in our dance school start IF and grade 4 together, but DD was 10 when she started grade 4, so wasn't invited yet. I would guess that your DD would be able to get through grades 4 and 5 quite quickly, as I think inter is a lot harder than either of those.
  8. My DD has fairly narrow feet, and wears Bloch soft shoes in "B" width. I think many of the styles have an even narrower "A" width which you'd be able to order online.
  9. This tip only works if you have reasonably long hair yourself, but I demonstrated doing my own bun for DD, which helped her see how to manage having to do it by feel and what to do with each hand. It still took a fair bit of practise for her to get the hang though.
  10. Certainly cheaper than buying but assumes they've got a copy, which my county doesn't seem to. I can't remember how much an interlibrary loan would cost, or how long that would take.
  11. Yes, you can be both employed and self-employed at the same time, my DH is, and has been for many years.
  12. I do DDs with blanket stitch rows back and forth as per this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRF3Fjb8Edc (There are 2 further videos in the series, I would presume they'll autoplay after it nowadays). I find you can get away with doing it with a straight needle this way, but a curved one is easier.
  13. My DD (also just turned 12) is going, and doesn't know anyone, as far as she knows. Usually we find at these sorts of events that she does actually recognise someone from a different summer school or EYB or her associates, and they sometimes take ages trying to work out where they'd met before!
  14. In case it's useful info - my DD does BBA London and is yr 7 and IF. She's in Mid 3B currently (don't have groups for next year as not assessed yet), which probably corresponds to Upper Mids in Hull?
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