All About Ballet

[cool_hi]

hi all! my 6 yr old girl had been learning ballet since ardoun 3 yr old…currently learning at Attitude…supposed to go for Primary Exam under CSTD, this Nov, but coz her teacher was not feeling well for a while & not able to conduct the extra caoching lessons, so she postponed to next year March/April…


May I know whether my girl’s progress is considered to be ok/slow?
After her exam, would like to transfer her to SBA(need audition?), or Nafa(which I think require audition usually held in May), coz after reading the comments here, think RAD syllabus is better?
But not sure whether she is able to pass the audition?:( she’s very interested in ballet…but I’m not too sure whether Attitude has been ok, coz personally, I think her progress is quite slow, but I’m not trained in ballet, so am not sure also…

Or is there any teacher/school which does RAD to recommend?? (in case she doesn’t pass the auditions at SBA/Nafa)

Thanks in advance for any advice!

[maltbibi]

Hi


Any feedback on Teacher Xu and Teacher Selina teaching at School of dance?

Pls PM me.

Thanks.

[lynk]

Tanz Ballet @ The Ballettschule

Qualified teacher from UK.

[ppnqq]

I’m also looking for a dancing class such as hip hop for my children in the north. Any good recommendation? TIA.

[Serendipity]

If you wanna expose your kid to different genres of dance first, can try Dance Babes at Jitterbugs.

[arielle08]

Dear mummies, can I check when can your girls start to skip during the ballet class?

My daughter is the only girl in her class who cannot skip when they are doing their routine "skipping around the class" exercise. Dunno isst because of her age or she is not suitable for ballet coz her legs seems to have some co ordination problem.

[daddy2007]

How long your gal starts to skip?


Practice with the children as the class progresses. Soon, you gal will be able to skip like the rest

Not all children has the same strong area in ballet. Initially some can skip well, some can do knee bend exercise gracefully, some can do frog exercise without effort etc. Through practice, one will reach about the same level with the rest

So no worries…

[phtthp]

i notice that a lot of ballet girls with long hair tend to bun up their hair, look very femine & nice.


if a child has short hair - is there such thing as can buy a false bun (sounds silly to ask, but curious)? because my daughter insist on want to keep long hair, but our weather here is so hot & humid, sweat a lot.

[dingdongrc]

phtthp:

i notice that a lot of ballet girls with long hair tend to bun up their hair, look very femine & nice.


if a child has short hair - is there such thing as can buy a false bun (sounds silly to ask, but curious)? because my daughter insist on want to keep long hair, but our weather here is so hot & humid, sweat a lot.

hi Phttp, you are so creative leh.... false bun. I almost laughed off my chair...because l have a 2 yr old who until now ahs so little hair pple call her koh koh or di-di all the time. She gets upset and tells them I am Jie Jie, not Koh koh. Maybe I should get her a false bun...hahahaha :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[HyperKiasu]

phtthp:

i notice that a lot of ballet girls with long hair tend to bun up their hair, look very femine & nice.


if a child has short hair - is there such thing as can buy a false bun (sounds silly to ask, but curious)? because my daughter insist on want to keep long hair, but our weather here is so hot & humid, sweat a lot.

Hi, Phtthp,

my daughter used to wear short hair for the same reason as you mentioned, but for her ballet exam, i have to let her keep long hair so that it can be bunned up. In her class, no kids use fake bun though i support your idea. But if short hair to be bunned up by something fake, we need to apply gel or spray, right? Personally I am quite against the idea of gel as anything chemical is no good for small kids