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Whats Happened to Brent Street

Tue, 31 Jan 2006, 12:26 pm
RAH258 posts in thread
Hey I have just spoken to a couple of girls who have left Brent Street before they finished the performing arts course, they said its gone down hill. Does anyone in NSW know whats happening there. When you read some of the musical theatre programs that tell you where the artists have studied, some say Brent Street but have moved on to other teaching facilities to study musical theatre.

I was looking at Brent Street but they say its just a dance school with fifty or more to a class. Its alot of money to pay for "just a dance school" And not even their professionals are getting any work

DONT BE SO ROUGH

Sat, 1 July 2006, 09:36 pm
Walter Plinge
I HAVE SOME ADVICE DONT BE SOOOO ROUGH. BRENT STREET IS A GREAT SCHOOL FOR A DANCER WHO WANTS TO BREAK INTO THE HIP HOP INDUSTRY OR MUSICAL INDUSTRY BUT FOR A MODERN OR CONTEMPORARY DANCER IT IS NOT THE PLACE AND I SUGGEST YOU CHOOSE A PLACE THAT WILL DEVELOP YOUR KNOWLEDGE IN THIS DISCIPLINE EVEN MORE. I STUDIED AT NEWTOWN HIGHSCHOOL OF THE PEROFRMING ARTS AND ALSO ATTENDED BRENT STREET AND I HAVE FOUND THAT THE DANCERS AT NEWTOWN ARE WELL TECHNIQUED AND ARE DISCIPLINED WHICH IS A SIGN OF THE INTENSE CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE THE BRENT STREET DANCERS ARE NOT AS DISIPLINED BUT ARE TALENTED PERFORMERS WITH FUNKIER STYLES AND MUSICAL THEATRE BUT WHEN I HEAR THAT JACKIE CLAIMS THAT ALL THE DANCERS ARE JAZZ DANCERS AND NOT BALLERINAS THIS DOES LIMIT THEIR POTENTIAL AND I CAN SEE IT BENFITING THE STUDENTS IF BALLET AND CONTEMPORARY WAS TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY THE TECHNIQUE WOULD ALSO GROW AND THE REPUTATION OF THE OBNOXIOUS EGOTISTIC LOUD BRENT STREETER WHOS PUNCUALITY IS NOT THE BEST WOULD BEGIN TO DISSAPEAR. THE BRENT STREET KIDS HAVE MASSIVE POTENTIAL BUT JUST NEED TO WORK ON THEIR ATTITUDES AND ALL WILL BE SOLVED.

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