Ballet Training

AZMom · Post by **AZMom** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:43 am

We will be in Espoo next year (2005-2006 academic year), in Otaniemi. My daughter, who will be 12, is very passionate about her ballet classes. We are looking for a good quality ballet school. In the U.S. she studies in a Royal Academy of Dance Program. This curriculum seems to be used all over the world except in Finland! Someone told me that in Finladf the method usually used is a Russian method called Vaganova. I don't even know where to start looking and my daughter thinks her life will be ruined if she can't continue her ballet!

If you have a child enrolled in a good ballet school, could you let me know about it and how to contact it? We don't mind going into Helsinki if necessary.Thanks!

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squeak · Post by **squeak** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:57 pm

http://www.helsingintanssiopisto.fi

Post by **neil** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:22 pm

Here is a link to the contact information page:

http://www.helsingintanssiopisto.fi/yhteys/index.html

Depending on your command of written Finnish, it might be better to call or email them.

scoobymcdoo · Post by **scoobymcdoo** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:55 pm

http://www.espoontanssiopisto.fi/

I'm sure I walk past this one. If its the one I went past this morning then its at the bottom end of Olari near the 51 road.

heidieh · Post by **heidieh** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:57 pm

Ballet Studio Amica
http://www.balettistudio.com

Footlight
http://www.footlight.fi

Ballet School Terttu Laakso (in Espoo)
+358-9-541 5154

AZMom · Post by **AZMom** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:09 pm

Thank you all so much for the names and web sites of dance schools! I have e-mailed the ones you posted and tried to decipher some information from their web-sites (with no real understanding of Finnish!)

AzMom

zmt · Post by **zmt** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:45 pm

http://www.danceinfo.fi/english

For a good classical training I would sugest the Ooppera Ballet School

http://www.ooppera.fi/index.asp?polku=152;;1

AZMom · Post by **AZMom** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:53 am

has anybody had experience with the Ooppera ballet school? I had the impression that it is an all day school that combines academics and dance. Also, I thought it might be very very competitive (5000 applicants, 50 accepted). Does anyone know a family whose child attends the school? I didn't have much luck when I tried to contact them by e-mail, and I guess I'm a bit intimidated to call them, given my complete inability to speak Finnish!

squeak · Post by **squeak** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:31 am

The opera ballet school is not the place to dance for a hobby. It is an institution for kids who are seriously trying to become professional dancers. Admission is by entrance exam and the competition is tough. If your daughter is 12 already then she would be joining other students who will probably have been studying there already 4 years maybe even 7 years if they were in the youngest class. It would probably be a good idea for your daughter to go to a regular dancing school and if she's thinking of training seriously then apply for an entrance exam to SKO ballet school.

Carmen´s Cake Oy · Post by **Carmen´s Cake Oy** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:09 pm

I recommend the School of Finnish National Opera for a seriously ballet studies, as I have been a ballet dancers for years.
If your kid is around 6 to 14 years old it´s great, because of the new direction of the school, so the kids have been oriented correctly and have a very good base on ballet technic.

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