Video Auditions/associate schemes

[Jewel 113]

Which area are you applying for?  It may be that in some areas they can judge the number of places against number of auditionees more than in other areas.

[PurplePirouette 75]

Is anyone else still waiting to hear from Ballet Boost? I understand that they had a lot of applications, although it's making me nervous that it's nearly 3pm on the day they said they would inform everyone and we still haven't heard anything! 

[SJBallet 193]

Hello. We submitted our video quite early so got told DD had a place but don’t know what class and haven’t received any enrolment forms or anything. 
 

I thought today we might have received it all today but we haven’t had anything yet. 
 

I wonder if because they’ve had so many they’ve slipped the 3rd July date? 

[Firebird21 24]

We got an email today detailing what class we have been allocated & the uniform list, so I’m sure emails will be filtering out soon 

[SJBallet 193]

Oh that’s great news. Fingers crossed then x

Edited July 3, 2020 by SJBallet
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[Leapinggirls 2]

I’ve been following for a while, just got an email offering my daughter a place at NuL, yippee!! 

[Horsellian 14]

My DD is super excited as she has just been offered a place for London 3B.  We submitted her video right at the last minute, as she didn't want to send it because she was *certain* it wasn't good enough.

[SJBallet 193]

Congratulations @Leapinggirls and @Horsellian 👍👍 x

[TinyNEDancer 51]

7 hours ago, SJBallet said:

Hello. We submitted our video quite early so got told DD had a place but don’t know what class and haven’t received any enrolment forms or anything. 
 

I thought today we might have received it all today but we haven’t had anything yet. 
 

I wonder if because they’ve had so many they’ve slipped the 3rd July date? 

Hi @SJBallet, which centre have you been offered a place at? Do you know which group your daughter/son is going into? I might be able to help if it’s the same one as my DD, otherwise someone else might be able to. Also, they’re really good with admin and responding to emails so if you send them an email with your question I’m sure they’ll respond ASAP. We did get an email from them on Wednesday with my DD new group on, saying that they were exceptionally busy at the moment, so that might be why 😊

 

Let me know if I/anyone can help with anything! 

[SJBallet 193]

Aww thank you @TinyNEDancer I should have said. I received the email earlier. DD is joining lower mids in Hull x

[Mummy twinkle toes 312]

Congrats to all. Dd2 just awarded a place in SeniorA London.

[Firebird21 24]

4 hours ago, Mummy twinkle toes said:

Congrats to all. Dd2 just awarded a place in SeniorA London.

We are senior a class too !

class time on a Sunday morning travelling from east London 😳😳😳🤩🤩🙈🙈

[Mummy twinkle toes 312]

Early, I know. We live in Barry Island 😹

[Firebird21 24]

45 minutes ago, Mummy twinkle toes said:

Early, I know. We live in Barry Island 😹

OMG!! You coming from Barry!!!!????

will you come form the night before? 

[Mummy twinkle toes 312]

Maybe. My oldest daughter is in ABAS so those weeks definitely😻

[Emma northmore 309]

On 01/07/2020 at 17:50, fwr said:

Thanks both - I'll try not to worry! I'm sure you're right - bit annoyed that they said one thing and have clearly done another but hopefully there are spaces left.

Hello,

The only reason I changed the plan was to give the poor dancers some good news in these worrying times! I felt they deserved to know as quickly as possible.

We never normally do video auditions so its new to us all but I have been very fair and created wait lists to ensure spaces were available. Just felt a bit of good news was needed as soon as possible to lift the spirits! 

Hope everyone is well 😃

[Bluebird22 949]

A couple of mine are still waiting to hear, one submitted before the deadline and another submitted after the deadline was extended. We are assuming it’s a no. The rest heard very promptly which was great!

[Emma northmore 309]

Everyone always gets a reply. Have they checked their spam?!

We had hundreds of emails to send so possibly got bounced by the security on their computers.

Ask them to email admin@balletboost.com for their result.

Edited July 16, 2020 by Emma northmore

[Balletbuds80 25]

Hi. I have been reading the posts on this forum but this is the first time I have posted. We received an email today notifying us that RBS JA’s Year 4 and 5 auditions will now be via video audition. Are there any Year 6’s on here who have auditioned via video this time who can offer some advice?

Edited July 28, 2020 by Balletbuds80

[Jan McNulty 20,969]

Hello Balletbuds80 and welcome to the Forum!

[Balletbuds80 25]

3 minutes ago, Jan McNulty said:

Hello Balletbuds80 and welcome to the Forum!

Thank you 

[Ballet Dreams 103]

The year 6 audition was really easy I wouldn’t worry about it you didn’t need much space.  It followed a similar format to normal JA auditions there will be nothing in the audition your DC wouldn’t have already undertaken in their ballet class. My DD liked the video audition there was less stress and she had no one to compare to.  Good luck to your DC

[Balletbuds80 25]

15 minutes ago, Ballet Dreams said:

The year 6 audition was really easy I wouldn’t worry about it you didn’t need much space.  It followed a similar format to normal JA auditions there will be nothing in the audition your DC wouldn’t have already undertaken in their ballet class. My DD liked the video audition there was less stress and she had no one to compare to.  Good luck to your DC

Thank you. There wasn’t a lot of detail on the email. I think we get 2.5 weeks to submit our application?

[BellaF 136]

We're group 4 (Birmingham) so a bit of a while to wait for info. 

 

Do they send a video to follow along to or a list of exercises? Is there a lot of actual ballet or static stretches /standing in positions? 

 

So glad we finally have news!!

[Balletbuds80 25]

4 minutes ago, BellaF said:

We're group 4 (Birmingham) so a bit of a while to wait for info. 

 

Do they send a video to follow along to or a list of exercises? Is there a lot of actual ballet or static stretches /standing in positions? 

 

So glad we finally have news!!

Yes me too. We are Group 2 so shouldn’t be too long. I hope the content will be the same as the class auditions so at least we have an inkling of what to expect (from previous threads on here). 

Did you understand the email to say we will hear 2.5 weeks before our submission deadline so we get 2.5 weeks to create the video application?

[BellaF 136]

2 minutes ago, Balletbuds80 said:

Yes me too. We are Group 2 so shouldn’t be too long. I hope the content will be the same as the class auditions so at least we have an inkling of what to expect (from previous threads on here). 

Did you understand the email to say we will hear 2.5 weeks before our submission deadline so we get 2.5 weeks to create the video application?

 

I took it as they would email us with instructions and we'd have 2.5 weeks to complete filming and send back. Could well be wrong and I'm sure someone who's been there for year 6 will be more informed! 

[Ballet Dreams 103]

9 minutes ago, BellaF said:

We're group 4 (Birmingham) so a bit of a while to wait for info. 

 

Do they send a video to follow along to or a list of exercises? Is there a lot of actual ballet or static stretches /standing in positions? 

 

So glad we finally have news!!

my DD had a video to follow along too for year 6 there was some standing positions stretches, tendu, plies and allegro.  No barre.  Like i said was very basic and followed similar exercise to the auditions my DD did at previous RBS JA auditions.  

[Millicent 80]

Was there any improvisation in the RBS video auditions? I understand they usually do this but not sure how that would work via video.

 

Also do you just get a single use link to the video so you can only do it once ie you are filming them following the video for the first time? That would seem to be the fairest way.

[Whiteduvet 138]

JA audition had a piece of music to improvise to. Can’t honestly remember if it was played once to just listen to and then again to dance to. Just upper body though: they had to kneel during it. 
 

I think the link could be used more than once. I also wondered about this: how many people would cheat. I reckon though they’d be able to tell: little ones probably aren’t good enough actors to pretend to respond to instructions as though it was the first time they’d heard them. Not worth it anyway: you need to be successful by playing by the rules or it doesn’t count in my book. 

[Crazylifecrazykids 111]

Elmhurst are doing Young dancer are doing auditions by Zoom.. so wonder what they will be like... at least the children are getting valuable experience from auditioning on all these different platforms. My DD did her EYB Audition by video.