Dancing2003 Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 How dreadful is this. I do hope the costumes, equipment and bus can be found. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BristolBillyBob Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Central School of Ballet have just posted this on their Facebook page: Quote Appeal for help from the public. Ballet Central’s tour vehicle was stolen from secure premises in Central London on Tuesday morning. We are appealing for help to find over 100 unique hand-made costumes which were especially designed and created for the 2018 tour. Other stolen items include sound, light and dance equipment. The tour will go ahead as planned but the return of the costumes would be an enormous help. The Metropolitan Police have been informed. Please get in touch directly with Central School of Ballet if you have any information on 020 7837 6332. Such dreadful news so close to the tour. If you can share in case anyone hears anything of use in the ballet community I'm sure that'll be appreciated. The staff and students all work so hard to create what is invariably a highlight of my ballet-going year, so I'm sure everyone on the forum will echo my love and warmest wishes to everyone at Central School, and all the very best of luck getting everything ready for the tour in what must be now very difficult circumstances. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harwel Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Oh what a dreadful thing to have happened. I hope they get replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 How horrid is that!! VERY!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pointetoes Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 To awful for words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Still missing, but some further detail here: https://twitter.com/balletcentral/status/994181134249578496 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 (edited) They have set up a Just Giving appeal for donations to replace the costumes. There's an article on the ITV news website just a few minutes ago and I believe it will be broadcast on the tv news later. Edited May 9, 2018 by taxi4ballet 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balletbean Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 (edited) 25 minutes ago, taxi4ballet said: They have set up a Just Giving appeal for donations to replace the costumes. There's an article on the ITV news website just a few minutes ago and I believe it will be broadcast on the tv news later. I'v just seen that. The show will go on but the cost to replace the lost items is valued at £25k the JustGiving page has just opened and they have raised £51 in a matter of minutes. Good Luck to all the 3yr pupils on their tour. PS Update, funds are beginning to roll in. It will be one challenge to raise the funds but another one to try and source the replacement items. many were handmade bespoke costumes. I hope all works out for them Edited May 9, 2018 by balletbean Update 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 So sad. Some people are just scum. I really hope it's found, but sadly I'm sure the contents are long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 I've merged 2 threads in this one place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BristolBillyBob Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 4 minutes ago, Jan McNulty said: I've merged 2 threads in this one place. Thanks! I did check, but I suspect we posted within minutes of one another. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Here's a link to the Just Giving appeal: https://www.justgiving.com/campaigns/charity/centralschool-ballet/balletcentral 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 I hope with all the publicity, the costumes are found soon. They won't be of any use to the villains. If they tried selling them online people are now aware of them and will be alerted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pups_mum Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 I was thinking the same thing Lisa. Hopefully the thieves will give themselves away by attempting to sell the costumes to someone who knows what they are. Fingers crossed they are returned to the rightful owners soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 But how was it stolen from a secure premises? It almost seems as if someone was in the know about it!! Ballet costumes have a particularly niche market I would have thought so not sure if they would have been that useful. Was the van quite new? Could be that it's just the van itself which was the target....perhaps they will "dump" the costumes somewhere .....hopefully undamaged. So sorry for the students. Only good bit is that the extra publicity may get more people going to see them!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BristolBillyBob Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 9 hours ago, LinMM said: But how was it stolen from a secure premises? It almost seems as if someone was in the know about it!! Ballet costumes have a particularly niche market I would have thought so not sure if they would have been that useful. Was the van quite new? Could be that it's just the van itself which was the target....perhaps they will "dump" the costumes somewhere .....hopefully undamaged. So sorry for the students. Only good bit is that the extra publicity may get more people going to see them!! It's probably the van that was the target. It was a 2014 plate, so not massively old. Apparently it was clearly marked up with rental company decals. As I understand it thieves often go for rental cars/vans as the companies are more likely to write it off on their corporate insurance than go to a great deal of trouble trying to find it. I'm presuming the flight cases are worth something too, so sadly I wonder if the costumes will be disposed of and the flight cases and van sold on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Vehicle thieves, especially if stealing to order, seem to be very sophisticated these days. I'm not surprised they were able to breach secure premises. BBBob is right, they were probably after the rental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 I would have thought the lighting and electrical equipment could be a target too. Remember the BBC cameras that were stolen from bridges before the boat race. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Some good news - the costumes have been recovered. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancing unicorn Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Fabulous news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Pretty much the same good news here: https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2018/stolen-costumes-from-central-ballet-recovered/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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