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Oh my, I hadn't realised Ballet Co had finished! I thought it had just crashed, what a terrible shame. It was such an informative site, I wish I had stumbled across it a few years earlier, the advice of other ballet mums would have been invaluable in our decision making eg not to turn down a very generous Hammond scholarship!
Over the past few years I've always tried to answer any questions as honestly and as helpfully as possible, hopefully other new ballet mums will now be able to find advice via NAPM.
However, DD is now leaving the world of ballet, so my advice will very soon be out of date, but I certainly will miss my weekly 'nosey' on ballet co!
Fluffy AKA Tibby AKA Hattie's mummy.

Tibby it will be very strange to think of you as Fluffy! Thanks for all the advice you have given me over time I hope you will continue to post even if your dd is leaving the ballet world

amum/aka Cathy

Hi ballet.co ers! So pleased we now have been re united! Thanks to notapushymum. Have sometimes looked at this site and its excellent. So sad about what has happened. Best to Bruce and so good to see so many familiar users!!!

Nana Lily xxx

Thank for doing this - I too was worried I'd lose touch with some people - although some of us are Facebook friends

(So glad to see Anjuli on here!!)

I used to use Notapushymum a lot, but haven't so much in recent years as my daughter started performing less, but son's now coming to the end of his time at Elmhurst and the ballet.co forum has helped me so much over the last 10 years.

I know some of you know me from both - but in case you don't I was JulieW on ballet.co.

Ballet.co forum is a big loss to a lot of dancing parents, the support and advice from posters was great. Hopefully a lot of familiar "names" will find their way here. Many Thanks for providing us with a way to continue. Elliepops

Glad I have found you too! I was InterestedParent42 on the ballet.co site.

I was unable to post on the Doing Dance forum...(long story!) so you won't recognise my username, but I have found the wealth of knowledge there hugely helpful over the years.

I am the mum of a dancing DD auditioning for dance colleges at the moment. Not ballet, sadly, although she a beautiful dancer and it is her first love, the lack of leg length is a bit of hindrance!! I am looking forward to keeping up my fix of Ballet Co chat here...and being able to post too! xx

I too, was really sad to see the doing dance forum shut down. I still remember the day I stumbled across it when I was googling 'junior associate royal ballet'. My seven year old DD was desperate to become one and in my naiviety thought that because she was a low grade and didn't win at festivals she would never get in. A lot of water under the bridge since then, dd now at vocational school! I lurked a lot more than posted but will miss all the regulars and following their stories.

Anyway I was thinking, since this is a fresh start, if it might be useful to divide the dance section of this up into a few different sections, like on the rest of the board. Every year new parents start asking the same questions about associate classes, auditions, vocational school, flexibility, injury etc and I am just conscious that it would be nice to have all the threads about similar topics in one place.

Not what others think and if this would be a lot more work for the moderators on this board.
tutu 2 much

Thanks for the suggestion. If you send me a list of what you want I will see what I can do.

Titania

Just trying to think of what sections might be useful....

Vocational schools - auditions and general
Associate programmes - auditions and general
Auditions for other dance related things!
General conversations

Hmmm - must keep thinking

a title implying help with dance technique - problems - injury (how to avoid) - ?

Hecouldshine wrote:Tibby it will be very strange to think of you as Fluffy! Thanks for all the advice you have given me over time I hope you will continue to post even if your dd is leaving the ballet world

amum/aka Cathy

Thank you Cathy. I will probably will end up doing the odd ballet post, after all these years I'm finding it quite difficult to permanently remove by 'ballet mummy' head!

Hattie's mummy x

Looks like Bruce has managed to get the forum back and running for the next 3 months at least.

I received an e-mail with a link to www.balletcoforum.com. Doing dance is back on there and a few new messages posted.

HI all,
Can't believe ballet.co has gone into archive. I have only recently discovered this site from a friend after talking to
her at a show my dd's were doing.

The ballet site forum is a huge loss i may not have always posted but it became part of my day to check in and see what how everyone was doing.
My dd did her first vocational exam before christmas and i was watching closly all the threads about the intermediate foundation,
i was looking forward to seeing how everyone got on.
Hopefully a thread can be started as the results come in to see how they all got on. Would love to know.

Glad to see some of the familar names coming over ( i'm sure i will be taxing your brains soon)lol

The forum IS back, just click on the link in my post and it will take you there.