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No you are not perfect ..

Hear hear. ☺️

My advice, if you a near Nottingham, would be to visit https://www.gedlingballetschool.co.uk/ My experience has been that it is not about how much ballet you do but who teaches.

Where does she do her ballet classes now? Are you local to Birmingham?

Whatever your DD feels most confident in and shows her passion for dance would be my advice. Good luck 😀

My mixed race daughters say wet your hair, use a nit comb, spray with gel spray. Have never seen them not look very neat

If it’s jazz/commercial you’re looking for https://jazzassociates.co.uk/locations/midlands/ in Stoke is worth a look. Depends where you are and what you DC is wanting to do.

I found stuckonyou.co.uk labels (the spot ones stuck really well) after years of sewing to be the best option.

Almost all children assessed out of WL will be snapped up by another vocational school (unless due to injury). Everything WL saw to begin with will still be there and even one year training at WL makes a real difference to technique.

I have always brought my DD's home whenever they have needed to, which has meant 7 years so far of driving forwards and backwards to WL,Hammond and Tring from the Midlands, most weeks, with the help of the kindest friends along the way. Personally, I think it is important to listen to your own child, not other parents or house parents. It is your child who 'may' suffer from poor mental health if not given the opportunity to offload. There is very little opportunity at vocational schools to do this in private and dancers very quickly learn that they are meant to develop a thick skin, and they may, whilst they crumble inside, learning to repress their feelings.... of course they may thrive. I don't know many young dancers who came through completely unscathed 😒 Every child/young person is different and only you can decide what works for your family 😊

Yes, just briefly.

One of mine had a Vans galaxy print, the other started with a black Topshop leather one, then burgundy and various blues Noone batted an eyelid 😏

My DD's have done this. It's a well run course with top class teaching faculty. Fairly large classes sometimes so it depends what you want out of it. I just had a look to see if DD could do it this time but she's on holiday.

What the heck? Oh just realised that she asked! sorry to hear she isn’t in it. She deserves her place as much as any 😌

Wells away (Dar Danse) put on adult courses too.