I LOVE Dance Moms, it's literally my obsession, people enjoy it because the girls on the show are inspirations to the public, but others say they don't like Abby or the crazy dance moms! Some say bad things about the girls dancing and tend to critique it a lot but most are just jealous of them. You either like it or you don't really, it depends if it's your taste.

Im really considering starting ballet and i just said to my mum- "i think should start ballet" (jokily) and she said "it is very good for you" and after i said "yeah isn't it expensive though" she just said "not really" so do you think she would let me?
Ahaha
But my main question was if i was to start ballet, what would i do on my period?

I don't and will not wear a tampon under any circumstances!

Ive had my period for ver a year now and its quite heavy!

Most ballet classes make you wear leotards!

How do i do ballet with a leotard and a pad on! Also, some classes make you take your knickers off?!??

Help! Thankss xx

While real dance training doesn't start at age 4 (it starts at 7 or 8 when the mind and body can handle it properly,) 13 isn't too old to start for a girl, except for perhaps for a ballet career. You first need to be born with the body, facility and musicality that a contemporary dance career requires. If you aren't born with those requirements, starting at age 7 wouldn't make any difference. Then you need the right training and enough of it.
Most college/university/conservatory dance major programs are Concert Contemporary dance focus and require a bare minimum of three years of both ballet and codified modern dance training in order to audition. Your audition and training will be in both ballet and modern at those dance programs. That is because contemporary dance has no dance technique of it's own and relies on strong ballet and modern dance training. It is only the choreography which is informed by the choreographers own dance vocabulary that makes a dance contemporary or not. College programs are for concert contemporary dance as lyrical/contemporary does not exist in professional dance but just in recital schools and competition dance. If you are born with the right gifts and get the right training in a professional not recreational dance school, and take at least 15 hours of technique classes (rehearsals and "company" classes learning choreography don't count) per week, I don't see why you can't do this. You will be up against dancers who have trained intensively for 10 years. But as I said with the right training and if you were born with the right gifts, it can be done.
Check to see that your teachers have had long and fruitful professional dance careers and they have produced many dancers who have gone on to dance careers either directly from that school's training or into world class training or top college programs. Recreational dance teachers really don't have the right training to pass on to you for a dance career. If the modern dance classes are just called "modern" chances are they will not be real codified modern classes of Graham, Horton. Limon, Dunham etc. So make sure to ask about that. You have to find the right school to make sure you are giving yourself the best shot at this. Especially since you are starting so late. You don't have time to make mistakes in the training you pick. The ballet classes have to be of high standard as well. Your auditions for college programs will be in ballet first and then they cut for the modern/contemporary audition.
* Also look to see if there is a performing arts high school that you can attend where you live as that will help in getting you additional dance training. The better trained you are, the better chance you will have. This is true also for a dance career. Only 10% of the best trained dancers get work and only 10% of them can make a living at it. Good luck!

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My daughter is a professional concert contemporary dancer & choreographer. Ballet academy trained. Dance grad of LaGuardia Arts high school (the FAME school.) Graham & Horton modern trained. Juilliard SI. BFA in dance from NYU Tisch. Currently performing and choreographing for a world renown concert contemporary dance company.
I worked for NYCB (New York City Ballet.)

Let me begin by saying that recreational dance is for anyone of any age. Contemporary dance, and I believe you mean the lyrical /contemporary dance found in recital schools and competition dance by your description (and not concert contemporary dance,) has no technique of it's own and relies on ballet technique with modern and jazz technique thrown into the mix. It is only the choreography that makes a dance contemporary no matter which type of contemporary dance it is and that is informed by the choreographer's own dance vocabulary.

FInd an adult beginner ballet class and get started. That way you can see if this is for you. Any school that allows contemporary dance classes without ballet first is a school that does not have good teaching practices and you wont go very far in terms of reaching your goal. This will not all happen overnight. There is a saying that goes... It takes ten years to "make a leg" in dance. How well you do will also depend on your natural facility for dance and your innate musicality.
As lyrical/contemporary dance is only found in recital schools and competition dance, it is not a professional dance genre like concert contemporary dance. (Concert contemporary dance can be abrasive, pedestrian in movements and void of all emotion . It can also be full of emotion with organic, fluidic balletic movements as well.) While the better more professional schools wont have lyrical/contemporary dance classes, they will have better as well as cheaper (in most cases) ballet classes. Look for a ballet focus school as you need to start with ballet first. Then you can go to a school that offers lyrical/contemporary dance classes once you gain some ballet technique. Often professional ballet companies offer adult classes for beginners as well as more advanced levels that is not part of their pre-professional training program.

*Putting your "ALL" into it as you said would require at least 7 1/2- 15 hours of technique classes a week and it would take at least 5 years to be reasonably proficient at it. Even if you were born with an abundance of gifts for dance.

*EDIT: As a beginner 2 or 3 (90 minute) ballet classes a week is a good way to begin without risking injury by overdoing it.

if you can find a video of it, there are apps for your smart phone like shazam or musicid that should be able to tell you what the song is

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The video has a male lead and a female doing the chorus...

White guy, mulatto girl....maybe light black.

The guy is in either a party or a club, constantly changing dance partners...while the girl is dancing on her own. She might be in a platform or...on a pole?

It's really upbeat, I used to hear it in the radio and the club's a lot, around the time when "in the club" was around I think? I may be wrong tho...