2013 Graduate Contracts

[Anna C]

Central has now published a list of 2013 Graduate contracts on its website:

 

http://www.centralschoolofballet.co.uk/ssgraduatesuccess.php/

 

As and when the info is published by other Upper Schools onto their websites, feel free to post links here. And if any parents have info about their own children that they are happy to share, feel free. :-)

[Anna C]

And here's a link to the RBS page: http://www.royal-ballet-school.org.uk/news.php?s=1&tf=12&tt=13

[Tulip]

So proud of Ballet Central students 19 of them have secured jobs already well done to them all and all the best of luck to the others.

[Tulip]

Sorry I also meant to say well done to The Royal Ballet graduates too.

[Pas de Quatre]

Congratulations to all.  However, just to clarify (please don't think I am contradicting you Tulip), several of those from Central are further training rather than jobs.  The ballet schools, universities and the apprenticeships are fee paying (unless on scholarship), not salary earning.

[spooky]

I don't know about the ballet schools/universities but all the central graduate apprentice contracts are paid (salaried) not fee-paying.

[Tulip]

Is this common practice now in all the schools, our dancers are still paying for a dance career?

[Pas de Quatre]

I would be delighted to be wrong, but I understood Phoenix apprenticeships were under Northern Contemporary Ballet School's post graduate diploma placement, (similar to those through LCDS) and Springs company doesn't pay apprentices.

[JulieW]

Interesting questions, but may I ask that you start another thread to discuss it and keep this one as more of a "news" about who has contracts where and we can link to it.  Thanks.

[Tulip]

The central graduation list actually says which ones are apprenticeship and I think there are three graduates doing that, the rest of them I think are being paid.

[hfbrew]

Not all apprenticeships are unpaid! They are often reduced pay and basically act as a training period if a dancer is not deemed quite ready for a full contract for example.

[Tulip]

Gosh what a journey this ballet world is. From going for auditions to achieving a place with funding, then 6th form and then when they graduate what happens next? So much to learn, it sometimes feels like a never ending journey, and I'm just the mum.

[hfbrew]

Gosh what a journey this ballet world is. From going for auditions to achieving a place with funding, then 6th form and then when they graduate what happens next? So much to learn, it sometimes feels like a never ending journey, and I'm

just the mum.

Not just the mum. The extra strong glue that holds things together and is there every step of the way either physically or in spirit. However long the journey is..

 

And yes it goes well beyond the training, professional life can make the training look like a party!

 

By and large its those with supportive parents who make it through.

 

So to all brilliant mums and dads on this forum thankyou for understanding your childrens needs to dance.

[Pas de Quatre]

I'll second that hfbrew, it is the mums and dads who make it possible for their DKs to follow their crazy dreams!  I was once the child with the crazy dream and now am both mum to one & teacher to many!

[capybara]

Does anyone have any information about ENB School graduates?

[Jan McNulty]

Two of them - Matthew Koon and Mlindi Kulashe have joined Northern Ballet: 

 

http://northernballet.com/index.php?q=dancers-all

[Tulip]

What about the rest of them Janet? So glad for Matthew as I knew him when he was little.

[Jan McNulty]

What about the rest of them Janet? So glad for Matthew as I knew him when he was little.

Sorry, no idea.  I only know about Matthew and Mlindi because I follow Northern Ballet.

[Anna C]

ENBS haven't posted details of the 2013 graduates on their website yet.

[daisydance]

How about the Rambert? Does anyone know about them please?

[Klaris]

How about the Rambert? Does anyone know about them please?

I only know a few placements from the 2013 graduates: National Dance Company of Wales, Apprentice Dancer at Scottish Dance Theatre, Matthew Bourne, Balletboyz, Cullberg Ballet, Ballet Junior de Geneve.

 

In the past couple of years or so others have gone to Rambert Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Theatre, ENB, Northern Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Hofesh Shechter, Richard Alston and so on.  

[KathyG]

At long last Elmhurst have put up their 2013 graduates on the website. (gentle prod this morning may have had something to do with it)

 

http://www.elmhurstdance.co.uk/graduate-employment.html

 

Well done to them all from a very proud mum who's DS is in his first professional performance this evening.

[aileen]

It's disappointing to see that in the last two years BRB has only taken on one of Elmhurst's graduates (although another was taken on a year later). I wonder whether companies prefer to recruit dancers from the corps in other companies rather than new graduates from the schools. Both last year and this year ENB seems to have recruited a number of young dancers from overseas (I'm not sure whether they were all in companies) rather than graduates from its own school and from other schools in the UK.

[Bluebird]

Both last year and this year ENB seems to have recruited a number of young dancers from overseas (I'm not sure whether they were all in companies) rather than graduates from its own school and from other schools in the UK.

 

Maybe you weren't aware, Aileen, that ENB did take two graduates from a UK school this year.  Daniele Silingardi and Joan Zamora are both 2013 RBS graduates.

[Anna C]

At long last Elmhurst have put up their 2013 graduates on the website. (gentle prod this morning may have had something to do with it)

 

http://www.elmhurstdance.co.uk/graduate-employment.html

 

Well done to them all from a very proud mum who's DS is in his first professional performance this evening.

Many many congratulations to your ds Kathy, and to all those who have got a contract this year. :-)

 

Several ladies who have "Graduate Placement" at Elmhurst - is that staying at school?

[aileen]

I had overlooked these two graduates from the RBS, Bluebird. Thanks for mentioning them. That doesn't alter the fact that ENB has chosen to recruit a number of junior dancers from schools and companies abroad rather than from its own school. IMO, the company let Kevin Poeung (an ENBS graduate) slip through its fingers but, happily, he is dancing in the UK, with NB, where he is already taking on large roles and making a name for himself.

[KathyG]

Graduate placement is staying at school and doing some admin work and taking class for a couple of terms while continuing to audition for contracts.

[balletla]

It's disappointing to see that in the last two years BRB has only taken on one of Elmhurst's graduates (although another was taken on a year later). I wonder whether companies prefer to recruit dancers from the corps in other companies rather than new graduates from the schools. Both last year and this year ENB seems to have recruited a number of young dancers from overseas (I'm not sure whether they were all in companies) rather than graduates from its own school and from other schools in the UK.

 

I think the days of links between companies and associate schools are well and truly over. In these times of economic difficulty and globalisation, I think the ADs just pick the best dancers they can wherever they come from. 

 

BRB still seems to take most of its dancers from RBS, but Elmhurst, ENBS and Central feature in there. A bigger issue is that most of the women taken on in recent times seem to be Japanese or of Japanese origin. Not that I have anything against Japanese dancers but 'BRB' does seem to be turning into 'JRB'!

[daisydance]

I only know a few placements from the 2013 graduates: National Dance Company of Wales, Apprentice Dancer at Scottish Dance Theatre, Matthew Bourne, Balletboyz, Cullberg Ballet, Ballet Junior de Geneve.

 

In the past couple of years or so others have gone to Rambert Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Theatre, ENB, Northern Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Hofesh Shechter, Richard Alston and so on.  

Thanks for this update. It'd be interesting if they'd publish a list. Bet the recent graduates wish they'd been amongst the first to use the new HQ.

[hfbrew]

At long last Elmhurst have put up their 2013 graduates on the website. (gentle prod this morning may have had something to do with it)

 

http://www.elmhurstdance.co.uk/graduate-employment.html

 

Well done to them all from a very proud mum who's DS is in his first professional performance this evening.

So pleased for you and your ds. Long may you enjoy saying my son is a professional Ballet dancer!

Congratulations to all graduates everywhere who have managed to get that elusive first contract!

[allegro11]

http://www.centralschoolofballet.co.uk/ssgraduatesuccess.php

[Pas de Quatre]

Interesting - fewer than in previous years, but we all know how hard it is to get contracts these days.  But I am curious as to why they no longer give individual's names and have erased them from previous years lists too.  Could it be that it is again mainly boys getting the contracts?

[Tulip]

Scary isn't it, all them years training and no work.