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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The studio that shall not be named (located above Whole Foods in silver spring Fenton Street) - is not a place you want to get involved with. [b]The training is good. I’ll give them that.[/b] But everything else about the studio is extremely toxic. Families quit midyear because of cost (outside of tuition), favoritism, burnout, and development of eating disorders. Parents and students have posted negative reviews but the owner gets them taken down. They have less than 10 kids in the entire school. [/quote]
That's the thing - the training is good, and the small size really benefits serious students who can afford it. 
DD has been at TWSB for several years now and the huge class sizes are a really turn off. Every year we think about leaving, and the main reason we stay is the location (and the fact that DD will most likely not be a professional ballerina in the future). 
Even in the so called upper school of TWSB, there are huge classes in a studio that is way too small. DD, who is on the taller side, is afraid to really stretch out because she's afraid of hitting someone. It's that bad. The school desperately needs innovation - smaller classes for committed students and larger ones for recreational students, but the way that the upper school is designed everyone is lumped together. There is a new artistic director, Edward Liang, who thus far has not seemed to be involved in the improving in any obvious way the quality of the ballet school.
DD is doing summer intensives with other studios this summer, and I have a strong suspicion that after this year she will want to leave TWSB for a school that is thoughtfully structured for serious students of ballet.  [/quote]

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