Registration Fees - can I have an explanation?

[Katymac]

My dad is incensed; I have explained registration fees to my dad and he is horrified

Have I explained it properly?

You apply.
You audition,
You get an offer,
You accept it & pay a fee
You audition for a DADA
You don't get one
You've lost that money

So if they have 20 DADAs, offer 100 people a place pocket the money that 80 of them pay as they don't get the DADA & can't go?

[Robsmumma]

Laines have stopped charging the £75 registration fee if you can ONLY attend with a DaDA, we didn't have to pay this. Bodyworks asked for it but waived it (I think they REALLY liked my dd as I hadn't replied for a DaDA recall and they rang me to arrange it lol).
Contis still insisited on charging £250 and refused to refund it as they DID offer a DaDA!

If you read the DaDA info they shouldn't charge but is left to their discretion!

[Katymac]

That's reassuring (I think!)

[Robsmumma]

From memory, the Laine form had 3 options:
1. No fee payable if you can only attend with a DaDA
2. Pay £75 registration fee to hold your place AND attend DaDA audition
3. Pay £75 registration fee to hold your place and NOT attend DaDA audition

A problem may arise if you accept first option, not awarded a DaDA, then 'find' the money for fees. You may have lost the place as you didn't pay to hold it!

[Katymac]

It's not really an issue; unless we will the lottery (probably less chance of that than of DD getting a DADA)I'd have to bump someone off & claim the life insurance to afford to go

It's getting very close now.....gulp!

& she changed her &%$£@# song!! & rearranged the piece for her solo!!!

[Robsmumma]

If she's anything like my dd, she will refuse to listen to any advice. I hadn't even heard mine sing until we needed a backing track for Contis. We couldn't find one anywhere so had to get a friend to make one. (I listened at the door to the studio).

[Katymac]

Guess what - I'm delivering sheet music later tonight for it to be recorded

Does anyone know how many people apply for DADAs & how many people get them?

The solo dance is only just being finalised.......and emergency singing lessons have occurred!!

[Robsmumma]

Contis still ask for backing track? What is she singing?
DD did Somewhere thats Green from Little Shop of Horrors, college picked it for her, I would never have thought of that one.
Making your own backing track is useful as my friend listened to her sing it a couple of times and made it original just for her!

With the DaDA at Laine, there were approximately 80-90 hopefuls on each of the 3 days, so quite a lot, ( there may have been more dd is not good at guessing). They had already given some away during auditions. I have no idea how many they had, perhaps 20? Dd said funding is NEVER discussed at college, and no one really knows who is there on a DaDA, (except for close friends).

[Katymac]

Interesting about funding not being discussed - I imagine that is hard to manage

Yep on disc & on iPod (which we don't have - so we are taking a spare disc)

[paulears]

Your Dad is right to be incensed because this 'pay for audition' policy just spread very quickly, and is now just how it is! The more auditions they do the more they make. The cost of taking on new students only a few years ago was part of the running cost of having a course. Now, with the funding limited, they're recovering money every which way they can - which is understandable, but pretty unfair.

[Katymac]

Mind you my dad always said 'no-one promised life was going to be fair'

[Flosmom]

Mind you my dad always said 'no-one promised life was going to be fair'

Your dad is a very wise man. If life was fair, I would be able to dance like your daughter

Deb x

[Katymac]

Aw thank you

I think if life was fair I'd look like her as well!