Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 17:13     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
FYI: Julie Kent has nothing to do with the school. She shows her face but it’s only for show. She DGAF about the way Xiomara Reyes is running the place.

It’s all lip service. ?
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 17:10     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.


Sour grapes??


Not at all. Just calling it like I see it. Truth hurts.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 14:43     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.


Don’t go to MYB. Change in HoS also not going well and the dressing room bullying has gotten so out of hand that one student left midway through the year.


Girls or boys dressing room? The girls I know haven't complained about this.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 14:40     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.


Sour grapes??


I have no dog in this fight, but I suggest giving Julie a few more chances. The ballet world is hard enough. Her last production (Cinderella) was successful, so who knows... she might have more breathing space to look around and nurture young talent.


I notice you always preface most of your posts with, “I have no dog in this fight”....super annoying.


Ha ha! Because of course I'm the only person on earth to preface my posts with this. Wow, I'm prolific
You appear to be one neuron short of a synapse, PP.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 14:26     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.


Don’t go to MYB. Change in HoS also not going well and the dressing room bullying has gotten so out of hand that one student left midway through the year.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 14:06     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.


Sour grapes??


I have no dog in this fight, but I suggest giving Julie a few more chances. The ballet world is hard enough. Her last production (Cinderella) was successful, so who knows... she might have more breathing space to look around and nurture young talent.


I notice you always preface most of your posts with, “I have no dog in this fight”....super annoying.


Not the PP you're responding to, but...Good grief. It's just a way to signal that the poster doesn't have a personal stake in the issue right now (such as a kid who is a current student at the ballet school). It's a shorthand that we all get.

Glad you're so perfect that you never, ever repeat a phrase, or you're above using a common one. Must be super annoying to be that picky.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 13:20     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.


Sour grapes??


I have no dog in this fight, but I suggest giving Julie a few more chances. The ballet world is hard enough. Her last production (Cinderella) was successful, so who knows... she might have more breathing space to look around and nurture young talent.[/qu

Also no dog in this fight. But as a parent of a DD who danced all the way through school (not at TWSB) --there isn't much time to wait around for any ballet school head to take breathing space. Students who aren't happy with and aren't really developing in a program will leave, word gets around quickly as other students and parents notice people are leaving, and the domino effect can get going. Young dancers are growing quickly and have a certain window for getting the training they need if they want to keep dancing more complex roles. So a slide in a school's program and reputation can create issues from which it could take a very long time to recover.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 13:19     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.


Sour grapes??


I have no dog in this fight, but I suggest giving Julie a few more chances. The ballet world is hard enough. Her last production (Cinderella) was successful, so who knows... she might have more breathing space to look around and nurture young talent.


I notice you always preface most of your posts with, “I have no dog in this fight”....super annoying.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 10:22     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.


Sour grapes??


I have no dog in this fight, but I suggest giving Julie a few more chances. The ballet world is hard enough. Her last production (Cinderella) was successful, so who knows... she might have more breathing space to look around and nurture young talent.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 10:19     Subject: High School and Ballet
Check out Kintz and Mejia Academy of Ballet in Tysons. They have an original production, the Little Mermaid, coming up this weekend at George Mason High School. See it for yourself regarding the rigor of this school:

https://www.kintzmejiaballet.org/performances.html
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2019 08:56     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.


Sour grapes??
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2019 20:36     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
TWSB has gone downhill. HoS and her husband are destroying it. She has no business running a school. A Principal dancer with no business acumen or professionalism should not be dictating the future of students who she deems worthy or unworthy. Their PTP A program only has one student who came from TWSB. She is not interested in fostering talent from within which is deeply troubling. Go to MYB.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2019 14:47     Subject: High School and Ballet
Feels funny suggesting this because this is the VA school forum, but B-CC in Bethesda ends at 2:30 each day and kids could take the bus down WI Ave to WSB or across E-W Hwy to MDYB.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2019 09:20     Subject: High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:What about Kirov ?


A friend’s daughter attended one summer. It was a stereotype of Russian ballet. She’s a hard worker with thick skin and respect for criticism but she found it comical how they were insulted, injuries were ignored, and there were only a few cold showers available for dozens of girls.
Anonymous
Post 05/10/2019 14:05     Subject: Re:High School and Ballet
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for the input. It sounds like there are a lot of good choices, and I’m relieved to hear that schools are likely to do early release. It’s so much for them to juggle.

DD asked to audition for Metropolitan, but their school is online and I’m not sure that I’m okay with that. But I am also concerned that doing NoVa academics and a pre-professional ballet program is too much to ask of a child, so I may need to keep an open mind.

We’re going to visit and hopefully take some classes to make sure she gets a good fit for ballet then look for schools nearby too. We lived in the area once before and I definitely want to avoid long commutes. She was much younger though - class was only an hour and homework wasn’t an issue.



For what it's worth, I have a friend with a daughter at Metropolitan School and she's very happy with the dance program and academics.


Thank you. I’ll look into it again.