Ballet Schools in Northampton

[afab]

Hi all,

 

The old members will certainly remember that a year ago or so, we tried moving back to the UK but without any luck...

 

It's that time again except this time a job would maybe take us to Northampton but the usual question is "what do we do with our DDs"?

 

DD1 is sorted since she's starting a BA in dance next Monday but DD2 and DD3 still need a/more than one (?) good ballet school(s).

 

So does anyone know of any good level free syllabus ballet school in the area? DD2 especially needs a good level one as she currently does about 17 hrs of ballet a week and will be auditioning for Upper Schools this year...

 

Thanks a lot in advance

[Anna C]

Afab, I hope you don't mind but I've edited the title of your thread to make the subject clearer.

[afab]

No problem, thanks Anna

[cornishprincess]

me me me I know I will message you

[invisiblecircus]

Interesting topic as I am also looking to move back to the UK and also looking at the Northampton area!

 

I actually used to work in the Northants area but more in the sphere of contemporary and youth dance.

 

What do you mean by free syllabus? Non syllabus?

[DancingDays]

Hi, Kilburn School in Wellingborough has a good reputation - my DD often competed against their dancers at All England Festivals before she started at Vocational school and they regularly had dancers reaching Finals so technique is strong across all genres.  One of their teaching faculty is an RAD examiner as well so knows her stuff (she has been to my DD's old local dance school in Rugby to coach the dancers before RAD exams too)  Website:  http://www.kilburnschoolofdancing.co.uk/

There is also Mayhew School of Dance.  Their website is:  http://mayhewschoolofdance.co.uk/home/2604009 Another good all round school with regular All England success.

From Northampton you would also have good access to Birmingham to make use of the RAD Associate classes held at Elmhurst or BRBs studios at the Hippodrome.  There's also Graham Fletcher in Market Harborough (a little bit of a trek but doable from Northampton)  His school is Dance Activate  http://www.danceactivate.co.uk/ andhe does a monthly associate class in Leicester http://www.danceactivate.co.uk/associates/.  He has good audition success rates.

Of course, it would also put you close enough to make use of Dr Dance's Associate programme - MIDAS. don't have a website as such but their details are:  http://midas-dance.org.uk/and they are on facebook too.

I don't know of any dedicated "ballet" schools - but there are quite a few options that you can look at

Hope this helps x

[afab]

Yes, that is interesting... We could start a group!

 

Yes, I mean non syllabus...

[2littledancers]

Can also recommend Kilburn school in Wellingborough . Also Mayhew which is in Northampton itself has been recently taken over by an RAD examiner and is a very successful school .

[2littledancers]

The teacher that DancingDays talks of at Kilburn (RAD Examiner ) is the one which has taken over Mayhew School .

[invisiblecircus]

I would be surprised if you were able to find enough non syllabus classes for your DDs. I'm afraid the culture in the UK seems to be for syllabus classes and many school don't offer anything else.  I'm coming from the other side as someone who is considering teaching, but with no qualifications from any of the examining bodies I realise that I can't provide the sort of classes most people are looking for (in the UK.) It's a pity, I think other countries have better systems, but that's for another thread :-)

[2littledancers]

Although my DD dancing school follows the RAD syllabus , they also do a non syllabus class every week -split into junior , inter and senior . I wouldn't be surprised if these two schools offered the same .