Choices 16+

[Dancer's Driver]

As a very general rule this "multi-tasking" business seems to expect dancers to have many skills, supposedly to be more employable in an ideal world.

 

 

Forgetting finances just for a moment :-

 

 

So  (aside from dancers on a "ballet only" route at RBS etc )  do you think it is better for eventual employability to - at 16 - keep a broad education going in several disciplines at schools like Tring and then maybe go on do more specialised training afterwards at 18/19 in say Ballet/Contemporary or MT and then get into work (if possible).

 

Or go to straight to schools like Central & Rambert who seem to be training their students to go into companies after the 3 year degree courses and not really to go on to further training.

[Anna C]

Well Central and Rambert - IMHO - should really be on the list for classical training, with the aim of leaving and getting a contract with a ballet, ballet/contemporary, or contemporary company.

 

It really depends on your eventual aim. If it's commercial, jazz, musical theatre etc. then I would think a good route would be sixth form at a school with a really good versatile and multi-faceted "dance" course, with the option of following that at 19 at Laines, Bird, Millenium etc. - or of course going to Laines, Bird etc. at 16.

 

If it's pure Contemporary and/or Classical Ballet, then I would aim for a course which obviously covers both but at a school/conservatoire which has a good record of getting its graduates into companies or into post 18/19 contemporary training.