Whats Happened to Brent Street

I have to say: I've never heard of Brent Street, and anyone who has seen me in a nightclub will swear that I've obviously never heard of dancing either.

However, what I WILL suggest is that potentially anonymous forums are usually pretty poor ways of getting an unbiased opinion about a particular school / theatre company etc. There's simply no means of sorting out crap posted by people with a bias (e.g. ex-students who have been failed or who don't get on with the staff, or competing schools on one hand v stuff posted by the owners, or friends of the owners, as a means of free advertising) from genuine and well-meaning comment.

By all means GO the consumer power - especially in an area where rip-off-merchants are rife - talk to as many other performers and students and potentional performers and students as possible and find out their opinions and spread word of good/bad products. But I don't think that inviting comments about a school on a website is going to help you out.

Personally I find it best to evaluate courses/schools by asking people who are getting regular work what courses etc they found helpful. There's no point trying to judge schools by how many of their students go on to bigger and better things - unfortunately the % is miserably low for ALL of them - heck even for NIDA and WAAPA etc! The proportion of grads from any course/school who get long-term full-time performance work is just too low to be statistically reliable as a means of comparing schools. Much better to start from the other end - find people who HAVE got long-term full-time performance work and ask what they found helpful.