Arts & Humanities: Dancing: “Question: I am 14 and want to start to do ballet but I am nervous because of a) I don t want to be put with really young people and b) I m 67 kg?” plus 4 more |
- Question: I am 14 and want to start to do ballet but I am nervous because of a) I don t want to be put with really young people and b) I m 67 kg?
- Question: Hi! I began ballet when I was 2 but had to quit when I was 8, then I returned at 13 for a year, but again due to financial reasons I had?
- Question: How to become a great dancer?
- Question: Does anyone have beginning clogging routines for kids? For ages 3-8?
- Question: How common is it for (non-dancer) men to openly admit to liking watching Ballet?
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| Posted: 16 Sep 2016 11:41 PM PDT To start out most college dance programs that offer a dance major are going to be concert contemporary based. That would be auditions in both ballet and modern dance. That is because ballet careers usually start right out of high school. There are a few university conservatory programs like Indiana and Butler that are ballet focused but with only 2 years of ballet even if you trained full time ( 20-30 hours of technique classes a week year round) you would still be too undertrained to get in. You could take ballet as an elective as there are several schools that offer that with no prerequisite or audition. Maybe even as a dance minor in a non audition school, but usually they require at least three years of ballet training and teacher recommendations. They would also not be exclusively ballet but concert contemporary focused. If you are serious about really learning ballet there is only one summer professional program that might take you as you are really a beginner. That would be CPYB 5 week program. https://www.cpyb.org/school/summer-progr... You don't get in by audition but by photos. Placement would be once you got there. They take all levels of training as they have over 20 levels in this large program. Not the usual 5/6. Any other good professional program would be audition based and at your age that means pointe work and very advanced level close to professional level. I don't know what you are looking for out of this training because at your age you have aged out of professional level ballet training that would get you a shot at a ballet career. Most people have no clue what it takes to have even a small chance at a ballet career. Dancers on track for a ballet career first must be born with the right body, facility and musicality that a ballet career requires. It is way more than just being thin and the right height. You could be as thin as a toothpick and not have a ballet body. It is a very specific bone and muscle structure that only 2% of the population is born with. No amount of training no matter how young you start or how good it is can change those things. You must be born like that. Then you would need professional (not recreational) level training starting no later than age 10 in a world class professional ballet school that would screen you for being in that 2% or they won't train you. Those schools are almost exclusively affiliate feeder schools to a professional ballet company. Recreational ballet schools don't have the right training to pass on to anyone for a ballet career even if they are born in the 2%. There has been the rare occasion where a female dancer with so many gifts for ballet and no training has convinced a top ballet school to train them at the ripe old age of 12 or 13. None at age 15. Men can and do start later but they don't dance en pointe and have different requirements in the ballet. Dancers on track for a ballet career often dorm at their schools if they don't live close. They are either home schooled or get their academics as arranged by their ballet academies so they can take 20-30 hours of ballet technique classes a week year round and graduate high school early to dance in the ballet. Training for the ballet is expected to be complete by around age 16 when a dancer, if lucky, is chosen to apprentice with a professional ballet company and then made corps de ballet about 6 months later. There are dancers in that 2% who get to train full time since young at world class schools like The School of American Ballet who will never reach the professional ranks. There are so few jobs in ballet. It takes 10 years to "make a leg" in ballet. That is why you are too old to have a ballet career as a goal. Ballet careers start in your teens and are over in most cases before age 30. That is why you have aged out of professional level training. You would be ready about the time many careers are winding down and dancers start to retire. That being said, who says you have to get paid to enjoy ballet? Ballet careers don't pay well and are over in a flash. Then dancers need to find a second career for the remainder which is the bulk of their lives. Recreational ballet is for anyone of any age or abilities. Dance for the Joy of Dance and dance can always be a part of your life. There is no reason why you can't pursue your passion on a recreational level and even eventfully possibly even do pointe work. Look for teen or teen/adult beginner ballet classes after you attend the 5 week CPYB program. |
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| Question: How common is it for (non-dancer) men to openly admit to liking watching Ballet? Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:10 PM PDT I feel like I'm one of the few dudes who actually enjoys watching ballet performances. It's currently a "closeted interest" for me, as I know very few other people in my friend circle could actually relate to that. But I've always kinda liked them since I was young, the slender bodies moving around so skillfully coordinated, and being graceful, perfectly accompanied by the way they dress, it's actually quite mesmerizing to me to watch these dancers in action, I've felt similar about Figure Skaters too. There are some moves they do which have always been spellbinding to me, particularly twirling multiple times in succession on one foot. (I've always liked watching skillful twirling moves in dancing for some reason. This is an example of what I am referring to. The multiple successive turns while keeping a balanced form is unhuman to me. Good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX-BFayh1jE) As well as insane and precise manipulation of the legs, like all the on-pointe stuff they do, and criss-crossing their legs, etc. Overall it's a combination of "Wow, they are amazingly skilled" and the overall beauty of their figures/clothing. I just like watching these performances. But I don't see a whole lot of other dudes talk about appreciation for this kind of stuff. But I could be wrong. Any other dudes here like me, or do you know other men like me? Is it weird/uncommon? |
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