When to start ballet classes
TOO LATE TO START BALLET?
hi guys today I want to address a
question that I get very often and that
I feel like it's too huge to be answered
in one sentence so I thought it made a
video about it and talked about my
experience and my opinion on it and the
question is is it too late for me to
start ballet so first of all let me tell
you that I'm no expert I'm not a
professional dancer I'm not a
professional teacher so I'm just
speaking from my personal experience and
my honest opinion on this topic so if
you want a professional and more
profound opinion on this please find
someone that is qualified to do so over
the last year's I got this question a
lot of times either in a comment or in a
message people keep asking me is it too
late for me to do ballet and they're
sometimes they are telling their age
sometimes they don't and their ages vary
from 16 to I don't know 40 something in
between or even older I always try to
give like a positive and motivating
answer because in my true opinion it
really is never too late but let me get
to that later so the first thing that I
wanted to address about this question is
what really is your goal with ballet or
what is your intent of this question
truly and because this question is so
unspecific so you need to break it down
is the question really is it too late
for me to do ballet as a career is it
too late for me to do ballet as a hobby
or am I not sure what I really want to
achieve with ballet so you have to think
of those things first before finding an
answer to your question if you want to
have a career in ballet it is advisable
to start at a very early age some
dancers got in there
childhood others who are maybe lucky or
very talented can start very late also
have a very successful career so
definitely like a manual you could
follow but in general you need a lot of
years of very good practice and
discipline to be able to have the level
that you need to have a chance in the
professional by the world I know of some
cases that have got very late like with
18 or something and still have gotten a
career in ballet so there's that but for
most of the dancers I'd say that you
need to start as a child or teen but if
you want to do ballet as a hobby or even
better as your passion then there really
aren't and rules to it basically in my
school there are dancers that are very
small children teens and we have twins
we have ladies in the thirties and we
have ladies in their 40s in their
fifties in their 16 they're really
loving it and they're enjoying
themselves and that's what I really love
about it there's this one lady in my
class I don't know how age and she won't
tell but I think she's at least 60 she
is so good I mean she doesn't jump
rondelay growth course because her body
won't allow it any longer
but she's so elegant and all of us agree
that when we get old we want to beat her
basically she has the most beautiful
part of brass and she always brings this
royal maybe a little French spark to it
so I really love watching her dance if
you don't know what you wanted at sheath
with ballet really and I guess you have
to figure out you just help to try I
think
if you've never done ballet before you
don't know what it is about and you have
this idea that you want to do it and
that you maybe see yourself on a stage
sometime in a pretty costume and you
enjoy that fantasy you should definitely
go and take class and see what the lay
is all about and see if it is what you
think it is and if you like it because
basically you can't know if it is
something for you maybe even as a career
if you don't know what it is so you just
have to dive into that water I guess
next I wanted to point out the
differences between starting as a child
starting as an adult and starting as a
mature adult because I think there is
quite a difference between those three
and you have to know how to look out for
itself and be careful and make wise
decisions so when you start up as a
child I think you need to have the
support of your parents and you need to
find a good school that has a proper
technique that won't allow you to
develop any told posture force movement
will turn out and I see this a lot of
times with dancers with young dancers
that have forced turnout that have very
badly it also is very important that
your teacher knows your body and sees
what you can do and what you can't do
and pushes you in the right way I also
think that it is very important that you
find a school that is a place where you
feel safe where you feel supportive when
you like to go maybe you'll find some
friends there too I find that it's very
helpful and make make friends in your
class talk to the other guys to the
other girl you don't want to go into the
school and feel like someone will pick
on you or even your teacher will make
pick on you you definitely don't want to
want to go into school feeling scared
because ballet is about building
strength but also being a
to let go and I promise you you won't be
able to let go if you feel scared your
body just won't so you need to find an
environment that allows you to unfold
yourself like a flower so to speak so if
you're standing below as an adult or
young adult you want to be careful of
certain things and first of all if
you've never done ballet before it's
different to if you have done ballet and
you're a child
you already know like the positions and
how to hold your body maybe so and also
you might know the rules of ballet class
but if you're absolutely new to it and
start at like 30 or 25 you want to make
sure also that you find a school that
you feel comfortable going to I find it
is even more important that you find a
community that shares the same passion
with you I'm celibate to hang out with
to share your worries and your problems
with about your ugly feet and your
non-existent turnout and your
flexibility girls and all of these
things because that's something you
might never be perfect at and that might
bother you but if you have like a good
crowd to chat about it and to feel like
you're not alone with it that's so much
better
I also feel like the Instagram community
the adult arena gang or adult ballet
gang community is all about that it's a
very good community I find that helps
and supports each other and if you
really like can't find anyone near that
you like to talk about in your class or
in your school and maybe Instagram is a
good way to find
people that are like-minded and share
the same experiences with you I tend to
compare myself to professional dancers
sometimes and it's really unhealthy
because I will never have their body and
I will never have their ability it will
only make me feel bad about myself so
it's really not a good idea to do that
you should always concentrate on what
makes you good what you want to work on
what you want to get better at in a like
realistic way because we'll feel like
I'm never going to be good at this and
that's not true so you have to remind
yourself of what you can do and what
you're good at and that's also something
that you validate can be there for to
help you remember that actually you have
a good balance or you're very good at
the small jump or you tondee's always
look so nice so find something that
you're good at and embrace it okay so if
you start as a mature adult and I mean
like 50 plus I don't have personal
experience of this of course but I have
watched some of the older dancers in
high school you want to be careful with
your body and because of course is older
so you don't have all the flexibility
and strength that you might have had
when you were younger or that the other
dances have and your class and of course
it might be hard at times but I had a
woman crush her ankle in class because
she's jump to jump that she wasn't able
to do and more and her foot broke so she
had to recover up for I don't know a
year or even longer and it was really
hard to go through
older person because you don't heal that
fast and you don't hear that well so I
really ask you to be careful and to take
care of your body because the only one
you got this also goes to anyone really
like also the young adults be careful
and caring of your body you don't want
to ruin it basically by forcing it to do
anything it can't do anymore like 180
turn out you don't want to hurt your
knees with that you don't want to have
your lower back by jumping jumps that
you can't do any longer so last but not
least I wanted to talk about the support
system and some of you guys wrote to me
that you don't have the support of your
parents or your family for this which is
really sad and I'm sorry to hear that
but you can always find ways to be
supported by other people people that
understand what you love and what you
want to do and also for that I find it's
very important to have a good school
have a good teacher have a nice
environment in your class and maybe even
make friends there go to Instagram and
find the adult ballet community because
these people are all over the globe and
they are really supportive and they are
caring and they will listen to your
questions and your problems and they've
all gone through not-so-nice tough and
difficult situations and connect with
them because that's why we have this
community which I'm very proud to be a
part of by the way why did you take this
opportunity to send a quick hello to
everyone in this community out there I'm
so excited to do these videos by the way
so much fun anyway
basically what I wanted to say with this
video after all my rambling and my
personal opinions on things I wanted to
say that I feel it really never is too
late to start ballet and I guess that's
my my main answer to this
questions all the specifics and detail
besides I think that is never too late
to follow your dreams and to do what
your heart tells you to do and to do
what you love and what you care about
deeply and if you do care about it that
much I almost feel like it doesn't
matter if it goes anywhere or if it like
develops into a career or something I
mean I guess it would be really nice to
have the opportunity to make a living of
this of being an adult ballerina and be
dancing with people around the globe or
even in my hometown but I'm grown up
enough and realistic enough to know that
that's unlikely but nevertheless it's
nice to have this dream and to have this
passion and to do what I can do about it
that's also why I started YouTube
because I think that this is an
opportunity to expand with this cream
even more and to maybe one day really
connect all the people on the globe so
if you're passionate about ballet or if
you have this idea that you want to do
ballet but don't really know what it is
about you should definitely go check it
out and try it and find a school where
you can take a lesson a trial lesson and
just take that and see what it's all
about and fall end up with it maybe yeah
so that's it for this video I hope that
you find it inspiring and that you like
to watch it and that is answered all
your questions about this topic if you
have any more questions about it please
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you guys next time bye
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