Whats Happened to Brent Street

Ok, you really want to know what has happened to Brent St.? Well I feel that the only way to find this out is to ask a constant competitor against the institution. A person who has been there, watching and evaluating the dances over the years. Yes *** oh shame I’m talking about eisteddfods. You make think they are petty competitions, but they’re really not, they are Brent St’s chance to she the best they’ve got in that way of dancer AND choreography, it I very suitable way of differentiating the standard and ‘passion’ of those, you it is all about passion, well who, when onstage does not perform with passion? If you don’t then you obviously aren’t a dancer because I do agree that passion is what fuels the fire, but it also comes down to the dance and dancers themselves. I have been dancing for 13 yrs, singing for 7 and acting throughout and as dancing goes, things change. If you don’t know this then who you to say that you have knowledge in the industry. At a younger age, say 4 years ago, Brent St were the almighty dance school, everyone feared being compared to them in any performance Genre, if, say you were at City Of Sydney eisteddfod and Brent St was in your section, you had no hope whatsoever. You just couldn’t compete. Especially with the full-timers, it was in a word phenomenal. The main reason for this was the quality of the teachers. If you get successful professionals from the industry, well, what do you expect but a professional standard? But we have all started to see the standard fall. Especially those who compete against their ‘best’, a few years ago their best were probably the best you’d ever see, I’m definitely not one to deny that, but nowadays they can be easily beaten. When up against Brent St, everyone has in the back of their minds the fear that they used to make you feel, that intimidation. But now its just a mutual respect of dancers, not even agitation. Now its just “oh, we’re against Brent St, let’s see what they’ve come up with now”. To all those who are pro-Brent St, then you obviously were there when the standard was high, but now, say the past 2 years, where the hell have you been?. I now go to Capital performance Studios, and not trying to sound high and mighty in any way but we’ve beaten Brent St in every open age jazz and tap section this yr that the 2 dance schools have been in. And we only rehearse once maybe twice a week, for about 3 hours at the longest during the school term, because we go to school, compared to Full-timers doing 25hrs was it? Now if Brent St is being beaten at every opportunity by school students who don’t practice nearly as much, we must ask ourselves, indeed what has happened. Oh and for ballet, that you say is studied there *** then excuse me for putting this but, it is a complete and utter joke, it is true that ballet greatly aids a dancer but please, don’t try and say Brent St is serious about it, I have gone to school such as Ecole Classique, Conlan College, Tanya Pearson, and have performed with the Australian Ballet, now for a girl the age of only 16 ,however, I think I might know a thing or 2 of what I’m talking about, when it comes to the style. And please believe me if you call that ballet then you are, I’m not very sorry to say, no judge in any case of dance. I must say that Glenn, our major dance teacher is probably the most emotionally unpleasant person you will ever meet, who I think is slowly going insane but also the most amazing choreographer I have ever come across, I can easily compare his skills to those of much higher standard than that of Fred Astaire and you will know if you’ve seen it, but he pattern work is something close to genius. Given that he does on occasion make the odd student cry, but seriously, what dancer hasn’t been yelled at for not giving 110% when asked. I myself on frequent occasion have been screamed at, but for motives I find quite reasonable. For a dance school where the open age dances are made up entirely by the most 2 people, and music done on computers I an office, rehearsing in a complex with 3 studios in total, with school students, the oldest fifteen, learning once or twice a week, we simply must say that Capital Performance Studios is of an amazingly high standard, even compared to Brent St, I’m not comparing this to the “musical theatre” was it? But instead to what the full-timers students at Brent St are being trained to do, it is obvious the course focuses on dance but even though the institution spends so much time on the Genre, the standard must indeed be considerably lower that that of 4 or 5 years ago. City Of Sydney is in less than a week, let us see how the two compare shall we? Good Luck to all may the ‘best’ DANCE school win.