For those interested in the ballet class details
19 August 2019
Hi everyone
I loved my time at the English National Ballet School. I was there for four weeks, as were friends that I made from Ireland and Canada. I enjoyed meeting students from all over the world including England, Australia, USA, Mexico, Italy, Malta, Spain, France, Switzerland and Japan. Some students opted to only do two weeks so my class had some different people each week, the size of the class fluctuating between twenty-one to twenty-six girls and four to nine boys.
Every morning we had a ballet class followed by repertoire. Once or twice a week we would have coaching, contemporary, choreography, flamenco, dance history and music appreciation. Every Friday we would do a small showing of some classwork and repertoire for the other classes. I loved the ballet, repertoire, coaching and contemporary and I enjoyed the choreography more than I expected. Flamenco isn't really a style I enjoy dancing that much but the teacher, Lucia Caruso from Brazil, was heaps of fun. I found the theory classes a little bit dull but parts of the content were interesting.
For ballet, repertoire and coaching we had a different teacher each week. We also had a different theme set by the school. Week one was the Romantic era, two was the Classical era, no one can remember if we had a theme for week three, and four was Balanchine. Juan Eymar from Spain was our teacher for the first week. We learned the entrée from the peasant pas de deux from Giselle. Taina Morales from Cuba was our teacher for the second week. She taught us the pas de six from Swan Lake. In the third week, our teacher was Françoise Thouveny-Doyle from France. At the end of the fourth week, parents and siblings were invited to our performance. My class performed Balanchine inspired classwork set by our teacher, Josephine Holling from England, as the Balanchine trust wouldn't let us do any actual repertoire.
I'm extremely grateful to everyone who helped me to get over to London to attend the Summer Course. I loved every minute of the experience. I was sad on the last day knowing I wasn't going back the next week. I really enjoyed being able to dance full time for that long.
Thank you again to everyone for their contributions and support. I'm very grateful to you all!
Emma
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What an exciting and full few weeks Emma! Great to hear more about it. Congratulations on your dedication and hard work 😊
