Clinging on: Olivia Lawrence says the Government has abandoned her cohort entirely
Credit: Olivia Lawrence
While the pandemic has been a grim affair for all students, the switch to mostly online learning has been particularly difficult for those studying drama. It’s a subject that usually involves in-depth, practical classes and physical training – and graduates need all those skills as soon as they enter a highly competitive job market.
Olivia Lawrence, who is in her second year studying for a BA in musical theatre (so acting, singing and dancing) at Trinity Laban in London, had a huge response to her Tweet stating that drama schools shouldn’t take in another cohort of students this September, and should instead “let all the year groups they already have retake the entire year for free. We have paid thousands for training we have not received.” Tagging Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a follow-up tweet, she added: “This is a severe injustice for young people.”
Fiona Bruce reveals BBC newsreaders given therapy over traumatic stories Albertina Lloyd
Fiona Bruce has revealed BBC newsreaders receive counselling after being “traumatised” by disturbing stories.
The Question Time presenter said she had not had to use the service herself, but admitted there were some news stories she had reported that were so upsetting they have been “burned into my mind.”
Asked if she’d received help, Bruce, 56, told Radio 4 podcast
Fortunately. with Fi Glover and Jane Garvey: “I know colleagues of mine have, and do. Definitely, I know colleagues of mine and people you see on the bulletins who have had counselling which the BBC has provided for them because they have been traumatised through their job.
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From the music hall to ballet royalty: A British tale
tudents demonstrate a dance for Margot Fonteyn and others in 1972. The history of the Royal Academy of Dance, outlined at an exhibition in London, is synonymous with the history of ballet in Britain. Felix Fonteyn via The New York Times.
by Roslyn Sulcas
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- It is absolute nonsense to say that the English temperament is not suited for dancing, Edouard Espinosa, a London dance teacher, said in 1916. It was only a lack of skilled teaching, he added, that prevented the emergence of perfect dancers. Espinosa was speaking to a reporter from Ladys Pictorial about a furor that he had caused in the dance world with this idea: Dance instructors, he insisted, should adhere to standards and be examined on their work.