Full-time Ballet School for 12 years old

[NeleusTheStatue]

A friend of mine is considering a full time ballet school for her talented 12 years old DD. They are not in UK so DD has to be a full boarder. She asked me if I could help her find more information of available schools but I'm afraid I know nothing about the ballet world (she asked me as I live in UK). I can think of Royal Ballet School though suppose it's a top-end ballet school and very hard to get in? Would like to provide her more choices to consider. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated!

As someone on the periphery of this world can I also point out that it's not enough to excel at dance, they have to have the correct proportional bone structure as well. The kids are measured. Any who stray outside the rigid requirements are out regardless of talent.

I realised after I posted that I sounded rather dismissive of other schools. That wasn’t my intention. My DD is very focused on classical training, and as was recommended by her Royal Ballet JA teacher that those were the two schools that would best fit her needs. Vocational school is an amazing opportunity, and we are lucky to have such a good system of funding st the ‘top four’. Scholarships at other dance focused schools enable more students to access the high quality training. For a non-UK student it would be worth looking carefully at how funding would work, as I think MDS funding requires a minimum length of residency in the UK before you can access it.

MDS funding is only available to students who have been resident in the uk for three years.

The kids are measured. Any who stray outside the rigid requirements are out regardless of talent. This just isn’t true. Whilst there are definite physical attributes that they are looking for (turnout, short torso, long limbs, small head, long neck etc), no one is actually measured and kids are not assessed out purely on physique, as a look at any photos on the school websites would show you.

My friend is aware of the condition of MDS for oversea students (available but not immediately). Scholarship information is very useful, thanks. Both my friend and her DD have a ballerina figure so I am not too concerned about that side of requirement at this stage (but hope PaquitaVariation is correct as measuring young DCs sounds pretty horrible even though I understand having right physique is important).

user1471539385, I thought you didn't mean that.