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Kjas
Onçinha
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Yeaup from 3 to 15 I did.
I was going to do it professionally and had been accepted by 2 really good ballet schools to continue to the professional level except then guardians made me move here and I didn't have the money to continue, nor were full scholarships available here for my age level.
So sadly that was the end of that. I wouldn't mind going back to it for fun but these days I mainly dance other styles.
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Mindsigh
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I took ballet for one school year when I was 7 but I didn't want to do it again because I was big for my age and I was much larger than all the other girls in the class and I couldn't stand wearing tights because they crept around on my body and when I wore them to school the crotch crept down around my knees under my skirt and I couldn't pull them up in front of everybody  and I couldn't stand to comb my hair so I couldn't put it in a ponytail  (it was too short for a bun) and I hated changing clothes in front of other girls because I was so large. But I still remember nearly everything I learned in that class. |
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hartzofspace
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Location: On the Road Less Traveled
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| hale_bopp wrote: | I was forced to do jazz ballet when I was a kid, but able to quit after 2 years simply because the girls were little bitches.
I was good at it, but no-one should put up with that treatment. |
I hear you, hale bopp! I always wanted to take ballet as a child, but my mother wouldn't let me. So I started lessons when I was in my early twenties. I was a natural, except for doing things backward sometimes. I stopped for a while, and when I tried to take classes again with my daughter, our classmates were experienced dancers who sneered at us and made us so uncomfortable that we quit. I miss the ballet! Now I have fibromyalgia and can't practice anymore.
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mv
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I took ballet at 3 and then again at 7, until the teacher pulled my mom aside and said, "Mrs. {mv's mom}, you really shouldn't waste your money anymore."
And this wasn't some snooty elite French- or Russian-discipline school, this was local community theater! Where they live by the classes they can give to the community! |
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Bloodheart
Grisha's Gal
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Location: Newcastle, England.
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I wasn't allowed to take ballet 
My best friend took ballet, tap and modern dance...I wanted to too because I loved dance but my mother wouldn't let me because A. I was always very tall yet for ballet my mother insisted you had to be petite and B. because I was unable to be around people without having meltdowns - both fair enough points. My mother has always had this lovely habit of treating other people's kids more like her kids than me, so she'd make costumes, help with make-up and talk-up my best friend while I just had to sit and watch.
This is my excuse for watching really bad dance films 
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lostgirl1986
There's a party in my head.
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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| Yes, I took creative dancing when I was 5 and when I was 6 I took ballet. I wasn't very good at it though. |
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Mummy_of_Peanut
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I took dancing classes from the age of 3 until I was 13, which included ballet. When I was about 10, I started to do additional ballet classes. I should have continued, but when my periods started, they were hellish and I missed the classes every few weeks, then I felt I had to give up. I do Zumba now and I do feel a bit of regret about what happened. When I see the Zumba instructors doing their thing, I feel I might have been able to do something like that as a career, if I'd found a way to continue. They don't even need to speak much, they just demonstate and smile. That said, it's an option, even without the dance training (even at my age), but I need to get better at it and fitter, before I even consider going for Zumba instructor training.
I wish my daughter would take classes, in any sort of dance. I'm pretty certain it's the reason I can go to a party and dance and don't feel self conscious (I don't look like a dork). She's tried the usual class, which was uninspiring and she only went for a couple of months. Then she did street dance and zumbatomic (only went to one class of each then refused).
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mv
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I'm still (in my 40s) *SO* clumsy that I try to do things like Zumba, and I muddle through them, but I never get quite good or comfortable with it. Sometimes the instructor will demonstrate something and I literally cannot translate in my head how to make my body do that step or movement.
I think dance isn't for everyone. {shrug} I have many other talents!  |
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Mummy_of_Peanut
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^ My hyperfocusing comes into it's own when I'm watching a dance instructor. I completely home in, in what she's doing and learn choreography quickly. But, I started dance lessons at 3, so I honestly think that's how I'm able to do it. You can easily spot the ones at Zumba who had dance lessons as a child, most people take ages to learn new dances. I'm not all that co-ordinated normally - I can't drive, miss the bottom step often and just don't get on with mirrors at all.
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Kjas
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Age: 23
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Location: the place I'm from doesn't exist anymore
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| mv wrote: | I'm still (in my 40s) *SO* clumsy that I try to do things like Zumba, and I muddle through them, but I never get quite good or comfortable with it. Sometimes the instructor will demonstrate something and I literally cannot translate in my head how to make my body do that step or movement.
I think dance isn't for everyone. {shrug} I have many other talents! |
When I teach dance, I find the biggest barrier most people have is they are "up in their head" too much. They over think everything. The students who do best are those who relax (hard to do if you are getting frustrated or tense with it).
Of course it depends on the way you learn too. Those who are primarily kinesthetic followed by visual learners are often pick it up much more easily than the rest.
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mv
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| Mummy_of_Peanut wrote: | | ^ My hyperfocusing comes into it's own when I'm watching a dance instructor. I completely home in, in what she's doing and learn choreography quickly. But, I started dance lessons at 3, so I honestly think that's how I'm able to do it. You can easily spot the ones at Zumba who had dance lessons as a child, most people take ages to learn new dances. I'm not all that co-ordinated normally - I can't drive, miss the bottom step often and just don't get on with mirrors at all. |
I think that's great! Yes, I can usually tell by looking at people (in movement or athletics) who's had some sort of dance training as a child.
I'm kind of ungainly, anyway, so it's no big loss to the dance world! I like to watch dance, though, it's fascinating because it's so ... *foreign* to me. |
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Solvejg
i wear a fez now, fez's are cool
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I did calesthenics when I was 6 to the age of 7 and was kicked out due to being too tall.
It is no great loss as I am not the dancing type. I refuse to put my 3 yr old Aspie daughter into dance with all the other girls her age because she is already the height of a 6 yr old and towers a head height over the other 3 yr old girls. I don't want to push body insecurity issues from a young age. |
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aspiekelly
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| I did it for two years, I think, when I was 4 and 5. |
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Albirea
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Ashuahhe
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:43 am Post subject: |
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| Took ballet for a couple of years to help balance and coordination when I was 7 -8 |
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