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Lets hope they all manage to get there in this awful weather!

After the audition you get sent a list of rehearsal dates and at that point you could turn down your place if you needed to. I think my daughter just missed two half days so not too bad.

Sounds like a fault to me, never heard of it happening before and surely it could damage the dance floor! I would return the shoes.

Those turning 9 this academic year

She thoroughly enjoys the classes though!

My dd is in Sunderland associates. The only things I would say to consider are whether you wanted ballet only or not (Sunderland only has ballet, I believe other places offer other classes too...?) and also there are no mid-associates at Sunderland so if you're hoping to continue onto mids after juniors you'd end up elsewhere for that anyway. Also the floor's a bit slippy lol!

Perhaps something Peter-pan-ish?!

Oops, heres the link: http://www.prsformusic.com/users/recordedmedia/ProDub/Pages/ProDubLicence.aspx

This document explains that a produb is needed if its for professional use which would seem to imply that you don't need a licence if its for personal use...?

CDs can be copied into different formats for personal use, not sure about DVDs though. If its for professional use you need a pro-dub licence.

Videora I meant to say, silly autocorrect!

Thanks, I've got a mac so will have a look at videotape. Our school uses iPods too by the way.

That would be great, thank you

I didn't know you could import DVDs to iTunes, how do you do it?

Yes I've got it and it's a set of 3 DVDs.

The grades 1-3 is 3 DVDs and costs £29. Seems daft!

No experience of it I'm afraid, are you thinking if sending your child there?

I'm sure they all used to be about £48! So they're gradually getting cheaper!!

You can't get it cheaper anywhere else so your only hope is to buy a second hand copy but most people that have it are teachers and wouldn't be selling it!

Me neither!! Probably means they're in London.

She was going into year 4, age 8

My DD is slim but quite broad and muscular too, as well as being very tall for her age. she got into Elmhurst JAs so I think they do consider varying shapes and sizes, definitely more so than Royal!!

I can understand wanting to get an idea of the basics first, I hate feeling like I don't know what I'm doing!. I don't know of any intensive courses for beginners but maybe you could organise a couple of hours a day for a week or so with a local teacher to give her a basic understanding before she joins regular classes?

Merry Christmas everyone

I've done that with a bodkin, very fiddly and takes ages if the casing is quite small. The only way to do it though if your drawstring comes out completely!