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There was the story that Shearer was being coached privately by Kasarvina in Giselle.   When de Valois learned of this she engaged Kasarvina to coach Fonteyn and no one else.  I think de Valois was entirely single minded about Fonteyn and no one else got much of a look in.

 

From what I have heard Shearer never took it out on Fonteyn, believing that the blame lay elsewhere.

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On 12/4/2014 at 21:53, aileen said:

I believe that young people now have to be in education or training until they are 18, although they can work part time (20 hours per week). Does that mean that it would no longer be possible for 16 and 17 year old dancers to join ballet companies? Or could classes and rehearsals be classed as training?


they would have to be studying something  and the logical answer would be thesame  kind of courses as an uipper school student would be taking ...   perhaps those with   more experience of company life  and upper school life could make a comparison  .  When wone looks at  the  the  time tables for upper schools, for the   conservatoire  type  degrees and the   'life in a company' type  stuff  it's all pretty much the same kind of thing . 

there is also the application of child protection  stuff  - look at the  hoops the military now has to jump through with  it;s   FE student  personnel  ( the apprentice colleges and Welbeck)  as well as the 17 year old  of  boy / girl soliders in  'adult entry'  phase 1 ) 

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On 12/14/2014 at 03:15, betterankles said:

Interesting to note that the many Japanese soloists and principals in companies throughout the world have no fear of technical virtuosity:

From early training they are used to performing and competing, learn soloist and principal roles from the classical repertoire - and there is not the 'learn to do one pirouette correctly before you go on to two' - or even worse, rules about at which year's study this or that step is learned, with no thought about the individual's strengths and weaknesses as in so many formal schools...

 


You only need see  this in the some of the discussion  and criticism of    the pathways that adult recerational dancers take ,  where people so ingrainedin the graded syllabuses  are  shocked that  adult  classes  teach 'out of order' or that there are adult  dancers starting  pre-pointe work  in their first year  of dancing and   taking vocationals  after 2 or 3 years of class ...   (  although some  of the   more recent  vocal comments of this nature directed to the RAD, and a particualr teacher and particular Dancers  do have a strong  whiff of  Greerite TERFery )

however there is the risk that  if  you aren;t careful you  do expose  young people to unnecessary risk  if you progess  to certain things too quickly , this is where the  underpinning  knowledge of A+P, psychology and  child development is  so important in the teacher,  

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