Two Pigeons Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 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 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 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, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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