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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any 1A child who is cast as a Party Girl will have a stronger Party Girl audition than any 1B child and again Level 2 child. They have the advantage of 6 to 8 weeks rehearsal, coaching on performance and acting and 14 shows under their belt. So, sure, they're casting the best Party Girls for Party Girls year after year. With this reasoning, the deck will always be stacked in the favor of whoever gets the role youngest and so why bother auditioning the rest and getting their hopes up if this is how they want to cast it? [/quote]

Exactly to all of this! Really the choreography for all of the roles is not that intricate. The kids get notes and practice, they can basically all master it by the time the show comes. [/quote]

My daughter came in new to level 2.  She was ten had ballet from ages 6-8 but none recently.  She was cast as a party girl.  It isn’t always the same kids.  In 2019 when I worked backstage only 1 girl in our cast had previously been a party girl[/quote]

I dont think so many people would be crying foul if this was the norm and not the exception. The double casting of a desired role combined with recasting it for multiple years is just too prevalent.[b] TWSB loses lot of students soon after leaving L[/b]L, the students dont quit ballet, they go elsewhere for more opportunity. How many of their students in the PTP program came up through TWSB? [/quote]

Where do people go? We are a level 3 family....and are a little weary of the slow pace and lack of performing opportunity. (I know not a lot of schools have tons of performing opportunity, but I had thought this would be a perk of sticking with TWSB, and it has not really panned out)
So former families, where did you successfully jump ship to?[/quote]

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