It is usual for MT training to be long hours.
i’m not sure of Conti hours, although I do know they used to go in on Saturday morning, but training from nine until seven in the evening is pretty normal on a good course. Usually they would have an hour or two off during the day.
Italian Conti is in a shopping centre. It’s a new build shopping centre where one side of it is their Studios, and you can see from the shopping centre the windows with the dance Studios so technically you could see the students performing from outside. It’s a brand-new building and facilities are pretty impressive inside.
My daughter who is at GSA will start most mornings at 9 am, they usually have to be there in half an hour before for warmup in their own time. She will have lessons nearly all morning and then may in the afternoon have a break of two hours where she then go back into class and have another two hours finishing at around 7 o’clock. My daughter also does extra dance classes two nights a week which are accessed by others outside GSA but on the GSA premises and we pay a bit extra for this, but for students it’s really cheap.
I think this all reflects the type of industry they will be working in and also it’s a requirement to get the hours up that they need for the qualifications.
Also bear in mind that some performing arts colleges are actually not part of the campus or institution at all, for example PPA is a unit on a small industrial state, performers in Brighton, previously ICT, is out of town in a pretty rundown area, surrounded by car welding and other similar units, although the building itself is quite nice inside with modern studios.