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Island Life - August/September 2010
Eleanor Forrest dancing with Central Ballet in London

as ‘the basis of all dance’. Her fellow tutors

can be expensive, and obviously the child has

combine to teach jazz, modern, street and

to give up everything to train.

tap.
All who pass through the door of what

“I have actually lost a few pupils because
parents have wanted their child to go on to

used to be The Old Parish Rooms, dream

attend the Royal Ballet School and I have had

of a dance career, but inevitably many fall

to say they haven’t got the right physique or

by the wayside. She continued: “I teach

flexibility to become a professional dancer.

from three years to professional level, with

“Hand on heart I can feel I have been

classes for adults as well. We have a lot of

honest, and that is the only thing you can

three-year-olds, with classes full to brimming.

do. You have to be cruel to be kind, because

It is a good hobby, teaches them a discipline,

it is no good encouraging them in something

and in a way gets them ready for school.

they are never ever going to achieve. It can

“But I have always felt that honesty is the
best policy. I have to be honest, because if
someone goes on to train professionally it
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be sad, and that is when parent and teacher
must work together.”
She also revealed: “You can also get a
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