Tulip Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Good luck to everyone who are auditioning on Saturday for ENB, remember it is another chance to shine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Yes, good luck from us too! Xxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabriole Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Is that the school or the company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulip Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 It's for the school lower 6th form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulip Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 How did the auditions go everyone, were there many in a class and how many where there on the panel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwimum Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 3 on the panel...22 in the first class. The audition lasted over an hour and a half and they did pointe work. Good luck all still waiting to audition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 When do they let people know kiwimum? X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballet0 Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 think they said 2 weeks for resultsxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lildancer96 Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Very best of luck x x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulip Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 Thanks for that info Kiwimum and all the best of luck for everyone auditioning. My friends daughter said that there was an American girl auditioning in her group and that she was amazing with legs and feet to die for. It just brings it home to you about how many children or rather young adults are auditioning for these very few spaces for 6th form. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balletla Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 How many spaces do they have for girls at ENBS 6.1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwimum Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Hi Tulip...yes she was No2 and my dd was distraught to be right next to her!! She said she looked good enough to be in a company now!! I asked about places...about 25 per year for the three years of 6th form and very few Brits... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Gosh Kiwimum...why so few Brits? :-(. Anyway, wishing your gorgeous DD lots of luck xxx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowan Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Goodness, I've only recently realised that this forum is back up and running, at least for now. Good to be back. To Tulip's post on the American dancer... I think the fact that young people from abroad auditioning for British ballet schools will become more and more common, and it has to be a wake-up call. There are many, many young people engaged in intensive ballet studies around the world, doing far more and perhaps better than is normal here; I wouldn't like to judge, myself. By chance, at the weekend, I met in a social situation a European ballet dancer working in a British ballet company, who said that, in the main, British ballet training simply wasn't up to it and she was distinctly unimpressed by the RAD, its exam system and its hold over local ballet schools, which she regarded purely as a money-making enterprise. This, of course, is simply one person's opinion who had studied ballet in a different country with different methodology. However, DD's friend last year, for example, did an auditioned-for summer school abroad and returned in awe of a whole contingent of absolutely brilliant dancers of her age from Japan. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Sadly the opinions passed on in Rowan's post are very true. Just look at the candidates for Prix de Lausanne. ENBS have 3 girls entered, not one British. Only one male candidate is British, he's from Central School of Ballet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glowlight Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 This is a very true observation. In my dd's year at NBS there were only 2 English girls on classical focus. However, the overseas students (or should I say those from outside the EU) do help to maintain the viability of the schools, as I believe that these students generally have to pay full fees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowan Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Wow, Glowlight, only two British girls?! I'm a glass-half-empty person, and I was still taken aback by that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glowlight Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Plenty of British Girls on the jazz strand though. The other girls on classical were mostly from Germany and Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulip Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 Jazz, do ENB do jazz then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glowlight Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 We're at cross purposes. I was referring to my dd's experience of Northern Ballet School. I realise I may have caused confusion referring to it as NBS when the thread is about ENBS (English National Ballet School). Sorry for the confusion and any minor panic it may have caused! At Northern Ballet School only about one third of the intake do classical focus, the rest are on jazz focus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Proud Mum Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Hello Just wondering if audition letters are out yet for Upper school finals please? X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Proud Mum Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Are there any good summer schools out there please?? x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Are there any good summer schools out there please?? x You might want to start a separate thread Proud Mum. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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