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wave those tutus in the air, boys!

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

or it can be dance lessons of any kind, or gymnastics. i did 'em all, but i had NO aptitude for it.

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

Ha.

The first dance lesson I got was onstage at the nightclub in Turkey we were supposed to be performing at in two days time. "OMG I can't do this."

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

I did some form of modern ballet from the age of ten to about 12. I stopped because I realized how silly it was. It wasn't of course, but it made no sense to me at the time. It was a language that I did not understand. It's as if you know the words but can't tie them together, I just couldn't understand the grammatical rules. Funnily enough my teacher was employed by my parents as a salesperson more than a decade later. I did a performance once (with the ballet group). It was on the Cure's Love Cats. The bastard knew I was shit at dancing but placed me in FRONT. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

got rejected from ballet at age 2 cos well, i was a boy. so did tap dancing for about 3/4 years instead. i wasnt much good at it, not necessarily because i couldnt dance, but i just never really got all those shuffly techniques etc. couldnt make the right sounds with my feet.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

I had ballet lessons between the ages of 5 and 6, and some at school when I was about 9 or 10. I was never the most co-ordinated child, I'm still not brilliant, but I have improved with age. I'd quite like to go back to it, but the cost of any type of class in London is just too painful to consider.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

This is me getting ready for my primary ballet exam.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/primary.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh I just remember I did do ballet (with the same ballet teacher) when I was about 7 or 8? I can't remember those lessons, only one where we had to sit on the ground making some music. Hmm. I'm still not sure if we have a girl we'll send her to ballet. Certainly not modern ballet. I'd prefer her to do classical ballet first.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Amber likes being a ballet dancer.
Alice likes dancing.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

Hannah is really into Angelina Ballerina at the moment and she told me yesterday she wanted to "go to Ballet school". She's 4 at the end of December so I told her we'd look for lessons in the new year.

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Aww.

I went to ballet and tap but soon gave up because I couldn't do up my own shoes and it was too humiliating. I preferred Saturday Morning Disco where we could just piss around and occasionally learn the moves to the Locomotion or something.

My sister excelled at gymnastics and again I couldn't stand the humiliation of being in the same class as her and looking like an uncoordinated tit (which I really was, and still am for that matter), so I faked stomach aches until my mum finally twigged and let me give up.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

I did gymnastics when I was six or seven. I think my parents were hoping to foster better coordination. it did NOT work!!

― turboalbino (haitch), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

I did ballet for five years, from the age of five till the age of ten. I was in two school shows, and was apparently so unfazed by being on stage that I would just stand with my arms folded when it wasn't my turn to dance. I wasn't very good though, and never practised. In my defence, it's not like I was really encouraged to practise, I think my parents thought I would just be good at it by magic. Parents everywhere take note! The best way to get your kids to practise their dancing is to do it with them and let them teach you what they've learned. I watched my cousin do this for years with her kids, who did Irish dancing.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

i did ballet for several years and then tap. i wasn't very good at the former and only marginally better at the latter, but neither was as bad as gymnastics. my mother enrolled me in the same wacko hardcore school that her friend's kid (a prodigy) went to, and it was horrible - a succession of heavily-accented sinewy eastern european instructors yanking my fat little five yr old limbs various ways they weren't meant to go until i cried and had to sit out for the session.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

When I was six I went for about two or three lessons then DROPPED OUT.

This was the same year I did the same thing in regards to Sunday School.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Never did ballet. Did jazz for ten years. Should've stuck with it, damn.

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Hot damn.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

I always wanted to take modern dance lessons, especially when my Mom and sister went to Martha Graham. Maybe I still do. Gymnastics always struck me as a little disturbing, though. All that foam and leather and getting in line, wtf.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I took one gymnastics lesson and never went back. The guy touched me.

I took Ukrainian dancing lessons for a year, did a recital or whatever they'd call it in Ukrainian, then the teachers didn't want to do it anymore so I was done. I had a tough time with it being left-footed but it was pretty fun. There are pictures but I haven't scanned any of them in. I'm wearing large blue bloomers.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Lee Martino's choreography makes me wish I could dance

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

i begged for ballet lessons and was finally allowed in third grad. at the end of fifth grade, i got accepted into this dance company, but my parents decided i wasn't allowed to do it. they also wouldn't let me take pointe, or modern, or jazz, or anything else, so i ended up giving it up.

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I work at the ballet. It's great fun. Nutcracker dress rehearsal tonight! Ballerinas in the lunch room!

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Hannah is really into Angelina Ballerina

I have a signed copy of the book :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I did ballet and modern for two years.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I did ballet as a very widdle grul, but I don't have any flex in my lower back, I think the vertebrae sort of overlap and give me backaches if I over-extend. Some of that has come in handy for Scottish step, though, mostly the good turnout and point/arch/releve.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

My friend Lael. Retired, obviously, HELLA long ago.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Hannah is really into Angelina Ballerina
I have a signed copy of the book :)
-- Markelby (boyincorduro...) (webmail), Yesterday 6:37 PM. (later) (link)

Oh, Amber has a signed copy of the Video, as my sister worked with Finty Williams (voice of angelina, daughter of Judi Dench, etc) ...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 November 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha, who'd've known there were so many Angelina Ballerina fans on ILX?

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Thursday, 24 November 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

My daughter is enthralled now with Nina Kaptsova, and although I never much liked ballet, I sort of am too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xacEC8rYOSM

― man alive, Sunday, 4 January 2015 04:04 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

I took ballet for about a year (as an adult, natch), with the nebulous hope that it would improve the quality of my movement lol.

― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:35 (six years ago)

I took one (1) ballet lesson as a toddler, back when my mom was throwing everything into the extracurricular equation in order to see what, if anything, ever fit. I also took one (1) folkloric dancing class at the same time. As was the case with that ballet lesson, I was a total failure. The only movement-related thing that even remotely stuck was the few months of ballroom dancing lessons I took from my oil painting teacher; I did the oil painting thing itself for ten years, so that was the only successful childhood "hobby" I managed. I still know how to do a waltz, if that counts for anything.

― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 19:50 (six years ago)

i took jazz ballet...does that count?

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 06:22 (six years ago)

Never did ballet. Did jazz for ten years. Should've stuck with it, damn.
― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, November 23, 2005 8:38 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a lie. I did take one or two ballet lessons during those 10 years lol. and it wasn't just jazz, it was modern dance/contemporary as well. But I'm still super jealous of ballet dancers - even after all my years of dancing, I never got to be as strong or as flexible. I do have great posture though.

I started doing aerial arts/acrobatics (silks and hoops) a few years ago but work got in the way of lessons and I had to quit after 1.5 years. I miss it. :(

― Roz, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 07:49 (six years ago)

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