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    Brexit, EU citizenship and job opportunities

    in Doing Dance

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    2 hours ago, Pirouette said:

    It is correct that students on work experience or placements of less than one year are not automatically entitled to the minimum wage.  I trust that the period for which students are engaged with the company does not exceed that length of time. 

     

    However, I disagree that already highly skilled ballet students should be deprived of a wage that they would have received in the past just because students of other subjects don't always receive one.  The dance world can do better than engaging in a race to the bottom which encourages exploitation.  We should be levelling up, not levelling down. 

     

    The main point here, though, isn't that the students are unpaid, it's that in the scenario described above (if it is indeed the case) a service is being provided and paid for , but yet the people performing the service are apparently not receiving the money owed to them as it is being directed elsewhere. This is not the same situation as if the work was unpaid and no money changed hands. This is the point that I believe the posters above were making. 

    Not hearsay: my DS when at RBS Upper School danced for BRB in a Nutcracker season not so long ago, doing 30 shows, including the Albert Hall.  He did absolutely love the experience, and it certainly looked good on his CV at the time. He was not standing at the back holding a tray of drinks - he was one of the three Russian Trepak dancers, among other roles.  As a parent, I was disappointed to say the least that not only did he not get paid a penny (even a token amount) but there was quibbling over his train fares from London, and there was no 'thankyou' of any kind for dancing in 30 shows for free. They didn't even think to give these unpaid dancers a BRB Christmas bauble or a bunch of flowers. DS went straight into a prestigious company in Europe the month after, so he was certainly of the required standard.   

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    Cleaning my Harlequin dance mat

    in Doing Dance

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    I have purchased a 5 sq ft piece of Harlequin dance floor that turned out to be very dirty and scuffed (black character shoes?). Any tips/ideas how to clean it? I don’t want to buy a big bottle of specialist Harlequin cleaner as I only have this one piece. It was an impulse buy from our dance teacher who was cutting up her old portable floor, I didn’t realise it was in such used condition 😤

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