Are there any women on the planet who have never, at any point in their lives, wanted to be a ballerina?

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Just a question that arose from a conversation with a mate's little sister over Christmas — and the more I look into it, the more it seems that every female in the world dreamed of being a ballet dancer when they were little.

So, female ILXors: did sugar plum fairies float your boat when you were eight, or did you prefer to be out and about getting your knees muddy and eating worms?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 30 December 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

Er, I bet there are millions of people on the planet who have never even seen a ballet dancer.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 30 December 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

WIld hyperbole for effect. Work with me here.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 30 December 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

I haven't asked them, but somehow I doubt many of my friends would have ever wanted to be a ballerina. I'm seeing some of them tonight, I'll report the results later on.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 30 December 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

I want to be a ballerina.

― youn, Friday, 30 December 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

I didn't want to be a ballerina. I did post-modern ballet but dropped out because I realized what a freak my teacher was. I also realized I was a cow.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 30 December 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

never. boring.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 December 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I was very much a muddy-knees-and-worms type kid, but I secretly wanted to be a ballerina. And have a pony.

Then I grew up.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Butch Lesbians, duhhhh.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 30 December 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

my five year old niece wants to be Angelina Ballerina, if that's any help

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 December 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to be a ballerina. Still do actually. Wouldn't mind a pony either, if I had anywhere to put it.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 30 December 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

i didn't want it as a professional goal, i just wanted to learn how to dance. once i took lessons i realized i had no aptitude for it anyway.

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 December 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

did sugar plum fairies float your boat when you were eight, or did you prefer to be out and about getting your knees muddy and eating worms?

Why do boys think these are mutually exclusive concepts?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Principle of Induction. They usually are.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

So I'm the freak then. Cheers.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Not a freak.
Just not humdrum.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

In my experience, they usually aren't.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

girls are f'ing wierd.

― Jimmy Mod Is The Damnation (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Everyones fucking weird.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

That's part of our unique charm Jimmy.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

People who make great big sweeping generalisations are weird. I don't think I'm a freak, and I don't think I'm the only girl who wanted to be a dancer, a pony-owner and a member of the A-Team all at the same time.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

People who make great big sweeping generalisations are weird.

All of them?

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

No, neither do I Ailsa. I've always hated worms, but I was great at building dens and tree houses.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Exactly. I really don't think that ponies and ballet shoes render you incapable of operating Voltron or achieving your goal of becoming an NFL quarterback.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

...I don't think I'm the only girl who wanted to be a dancer, a pony-owner and a member of the A-Team all at the same time.
-- ailsa (ailsa_watson7...), December 30th, 2005. (later)

You're almost certainly not the only one. But I'd suspect that you and those others are vastly outnumbered by those girls who did not want to be all those things simultaneously.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Then why have I never met any of those girls??

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you move in the right circles.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh, trust me, I don't.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Yes, StanM, thank you for making my point for me, xxxpost :)

I also wanted to be a princess, and change my name to something glamorous like Clarissa or Lucinda. I did, for a while, use my middle name (Jane) hyphenated onto my first name to make me have a double-barrelled first name because that seemed more princessly. Then I altered the spelling to Jayne because that seemed more classy still.

Yet I still climbed trees and played football and paddled about in streams collecting wee fish and tadpoles and things.

The ballet thing was out the window when I realised I was a gangling big-boned freak with no co-ordination at all, and the pony thing when I realised it cost lots of money. However my cousin had a pony so I lived my Thelwell dreams vicariously through her.

xpost again - how can you possibly think this? What on earth is your evidence?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately I've met loads.

It's not that I dislike girly-girls - some of my best friends have been very,very girly - it's just that they irritate me somehow for reasons I can't quite put my finger on.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

*raises middle finger at you*

It's good to be back.

― Jimmy Mod Is The Damnation (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

So we're all getting tarred with their brush as a result? Way to go, mate (also, your friends irritate you? Get new friends!)

xpost - eh?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

your friends irritate you? Get new friends
-- ailsa (ailsa_watson7...), December 30th, 2005. (later)

Why? Just because there's one, not especially important, thing about some of the people I otherwise like that irritates me; that's not going to preclude me from being their friend. I don't expect my friends (or anyone else) to be perfect.

If you'd read what I said carefully you'd have seen the word "usually"; which I took to imply that, whilst I meant my statement to apply to a majority, it didn't apply to all.

Both you and I are speaking from personal experience; but as every woman you've ever known thought exactly the same way you did as a child; I can't (and to your mind, shouldn't; as your experience is obviously far more valid than mine) argue the point as the fact my experience of most of the women I've ever known telling me they did not think that way as children should have no bearing on how I think on the issue.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

And as the Principle of Induction relies on itself, all Inductive arguments are invalid anyway.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Er, where did I say every woman I have ever known is exactly the same as me? Oh, that's right, I didn't. Because I'm not the one making sweeping generalisations about all women based on a few people I know. I'm just pointing out that there are a number of examples of people out there who disprove your theory. I took your "usually" to mean that it was the norm, and that it would be "unusual" to be otherwise.

Of course your opinion would be based on your experience, but you have me, Ally, Anna, etc telling you otherwise, so isn't it just possible that it's not as usual as you previously thought?

Also, I was joking about your friends. Hence intended-to-be-chirpy exclamation mark... :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

(or are you confusing me with Allyzay?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I'd guess that the population of scallies and various other scrotes that I mix in would be somewhat different to your metropolitan types, so what's usual for my circle of acquaintances would not be the same as what's usual for your circle of acquaintances.

Or maybe I should bow to the tyranny of the masses.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Or maybe, just maybe, you could admit that your generalisation was not entirely correct.

(Also, haha "metropolitan", my childhood was spent in the Highlands of Scotland - you're at it again with the ridiculous generalisations!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Metropolitan? I'm talking about girls who lived in suburban Arizona!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Someone is being a little defensive and I don't really think it's ailsa...

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Suburban Wolverhampton for me.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I never did. I wanted to be a mermaid.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Cripes I pity the fool who tangles with an Ailsa-Ally-Anna A-Team.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Tripple A, I believe.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.posters.ws/images/892121/murcielago_the_bat_velasquez_mexican_wrestler.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Is The Damnation (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

i have never wanted to be a ballerina

i wanted to be a figure skater!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I tried ballet. I quit after I realized "this is boring." Took up baseball. Much happier.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear. So there's this poem, right? Modeled after Kipling's sterling-type example, called "An If for Girls". Having found it online, I include the whole thing below and ask you to remember that it hung in my girl-hood room for all my most impressionable years, set down in fancy illuminated letters on vellum, and impossible to miss. As a result, I have probably taken it too much to heart and resolved to be perfickly competent at everything listed therein (except for the parts implying graciousness and perfect manners, which qualities I could probably stand to work on for another decade or so).

AN "IF" FOR GIRLS

Elizabeth Lincoln Otis
(with apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling)

If you can dress to make yourself attractive,
Yet not make puffs and curls your chief delight;
If you can swim and row, be strong and active,
But of the gentler graces lose not sight;
If you can dance without a craze for dancing,
Play without giving play too strong a hold,
Enjoy the love of friends without romancing,
Care for the weak, the friendless and the old;

If you can master French and Greek and Latin,
And not acquire as well, a priggish mien;
If you can feel the touch of silk and satin
Without despising calico and jean;
If you can ply a saw and use a hammer,
Can do a man's work when the need occurs,
Can sing, when asked, without excuse or stammer,
Can rise above unfriendly snubs and slurs;

If you can make good bread as well as fudges,
Can sew with skill, and have an eye for dust;
If you can be a friend and hold no grudges,
A girl whom all will love because they must;

If sometime you should meet and love another
And make a home with faith and peace enshrined
And you its soul -- a loyal wife and mother --
You'll work out pretty nearly to my mind
The plan that's been developed through the ages,
And win the best that life can have in store.
You'll be, my girl, a model for the sages --
A woman whom the world will bow before.

Yes, large sections of it are complete tripe. I refuse to apologize -- it's one of those childhood things that I swallowed whole and can never quite disentangle myself from.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Ooh I wanted to be a mermaid too, until I saw a cartoon of the REAL version of the Little Mermaid, with the REAL ending. Fuck that crap.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to be Nancy Drew or Daniel LaRusso.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Friday, 30 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Those are true too.

I, uh, had a really low attention span.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

oh man i remember the cartoon of the REAL version, what a bummer, dude

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 30 December 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that, I want to be in a tag team with Ally and Anna. Like nambly-pambly Charlie's Angels.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 December 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I am so down.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 30 December 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

God, no. However, despite this, I was still forced to take dancing lessons for ages and ages. I am rubbish at dancing, ballet, tap, jazz, etc. - the only kind of dancing I was ever any good at was Scottish Country Dancing because it involved flinging yourself round in circles and swords.

Though I did want a pony. I was the only girl in sixth grade who didn't have one. Boo hoo hoo.

― ALL YOUR BASE NOW BELONG TO SYCORAX!!! (kate), Friday, 30 December 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Kate! You did highland dance, hurrah! For how long?

For the record I don't think I ever wanted to be a ballerina per se; when it was my turn to do the dinner dishes I usually spent most of the time swooping around the kitchen to Gershwin songs instead of actually washing up but that was more "interpretive ballroom" than anything. Mostly I wanted to be an Amazon and/or Wonder Woman.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 30 December 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to be a ballerina - I think btwn the ages of 6-8. I totally did "interpretive ballet" all the time! But I also wanted to operate a big yellow digging machine and build real-life versions of lego buildings! I still really like those pale pink leather ballet slippers though (and, ohno, own a pair.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 30 December 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I never wanted to be a ballerina. Not for so much as a moment. I wanted to be a soldier or an astronaut.

I did always want a horse, though. Not a pony, a horse.

― Hey Jude, Monday, 2 January 2006 06:10 (twenty years ago)

I never wanted to be a ballerina, I wanted to be married to a famous artist.

― She's been known to sleep on piles of dry leaves... (papa november), Monday, 2 January 2006 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Ballet? Naah. We went to tumbling, tap and dance classes when I was little but my sister took the bait and wound up as a gymnast/ice skater type. I bet she can still do at least a double Salchow.

I wanted a HORSE not a pony. My dad had a horse from 10-14 and did his afternoon paper route on horseback. I also wanted to be Wonder Woman and made the magic bracelets by drawing with Sharpies on white styrofoam cups with the bottoms cut out: instant Amazon bracelets.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to be a mermaid too! And a gymnast. But not a ballerina. I did ballet, but I didnt like it much and I can't do it anyway (knock kneed, means the turn out feet stances are effectively impossible).

I also wanted to be tripitaka from Monkey.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 January 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh also the horse/pony thing I *never* understood. I thought girls who were that into horses were secretly a bit funny in the head.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 January 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I wanted a horse. A LOT. Would still like one, if someone else would pay for it.

I think ballerina was on my list, but it was somewhere below astronaut, jump jockey, elf warrior, test pilot, architect (award-winning, obv), rock star, Princess Leia, pirate, and nobel scientist.

And it is totally in line with the mud / worms / scabby knees thing.

― Zora (Zora), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

ballet wasn't on my list. from a pretty early age, i wanted to be a rich lawyer with a black bmw convertible and a baby grand piano. then i wanted to be a writer. i later scaled that back to librarian or editor. now, back to lawyer, only without the trappings.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

My horse fetish was probably down to being forbidden by my paediatric oncologist from riding on the basis that it would jostle my newly radioactive but healing innards. Also, the thing about my dad having horses/training horses when I was in the prime age bracket. At school, the girls built dens to play variants on Pioneers/Little House (we had sun bonnets of the Ingalls variety) and for currency we had an elaborate horse-trading system based on the rarity of certain horses where a non-thoroughbred bay gelding had the lowest value. Also the leaders of the clique I was in all collected Breyer horses.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:56 (twenty years ago)

HATE ballerina's adn never liked them tho an aunt tried to get me involved by buiying me lessons and the pink leotard and pink slippers. When I was a little kid I hated any girly activities - didn't like baby dolls or dress up much. I loved playing with the boys in the 'hood -- army men and getting dirty. Imagine how fun it was when I discovered that boys grow up a little and really start to *enjoy* little girls. Was taught to kiss at 8 with my dear friend mark and a cute older boy (11?!?!?) oh my! Here's to the little "tomboy" girls who grow up smarter and wiser that the little ballerina girls! Cheers and Happy New Year.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 03:57 (twenty years ago)

I never wanted to be a ballerina. When I was young, I wanted to be a typist or writer. I'm a translator, which is a little of both.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

I was in ballet when I was younger, and did indeed want to be a ballerina. But I also wanted to be Harry Houdini and a paleontologist, so who knows. That said, a lot of the ballerina girls I hung out with were kinda creepy, but mostly because their mothers only allowed them to participate in feminine "wholesome=(Christian)" activities.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Thread not worth starting: Are there any men on the planet who have never, at any point in their lives, wanted to be a flaming-sword-wielding robot battalion-commanding intergalactic princess-fucking saviour of the universe?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

(even the gays)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

did sugar plum fairies float your boat when you were eight, or did you prefer to be out and about getting your knees muddy and eating worms?

From my About the Author in the Smoky Scribble from when I was six: "Emily likes to play war and wants to be a ballerina."

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

My mom sent me to my first ballet lesson when I was 3. After the class I wouldnt speak to her. Finally, she asked me if i liked it and i shouted 'I WILL NOT BE A BUTTERFLY!'. I never went back.

I had ideas to do ballet in my early 20s just because I like the idea of the stretching and I need some serious grace because I trip over nothing. I did yoga instead.

Also, I can't help but notice ballerinas walk like ducks.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Here's to the little "tomboy" girls who grow up smarter and wiser that the little ballerina girls!

Hey, generalisations-a-go-go again! Girls be stupid unless they want to be boys! I love this thread :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but then again, how does "I don't want to be a ballerina" = "I want to be a boy"?

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I think it was the implied "tomboys be smarter than girlies" rather than the actual ballerina-thing itself. Maybe I'm reading too much into what Wiggy said, but the implication I got was "running around with boys makes you smarter than doing girlie things".

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Ailsa, some people you just have to ignore, because having the same dispute -- I mean CONVERSATION -- more than once is just too tiresome for words, darling (/me waves hand archly).

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I know, I'm going out for a walk because my head is sore and I can't even be bothered getting dragged back into this again and I know I have a tendency to be like a dog with a bone over stuff that annoys me...

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

"I don't want to be a ballerina" != "I'm a tomboy", either.

I wanted to be a figure-skating veterinarian astronaut who was also a cowgirl and a rockstar. I wanted to be a librarian FBI agent ranch owning trick rider. I wanted to be a principal horn playing tap-dancing opera/musical comedy diva. While I've done some of these things, I am none of these things.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Was taught to kiss at 8 with my dear friend mark and a cute older boy (11?!?!?) oh my! Here's to the little "tomboy" girls who grow up smarter and wiser that the little ballerina girls!

I was beyond boys at age 8 and had moved on to practicing making out with my best female friend (also a ballerina). What's your point, fucktard?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

booyakasha

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

How's it hanging, Jimmy the Mod?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Long and to the left. How's tricks, sugar pie?

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Pretty crap, my new year started off getting my coat vomited on and went downhill from there until pretty late in the evening last night. Tom and I both had oddball dreams involving members of the New York Football Giants last night, Tom's involved Eli Manning on a lengthy quest to tell a vulture in an airport hangar how much life insurance should cost, and I had one about Tiki getting fired because NY was going "no running back offense" from now on and I was in charge of finding him a new job.

Fuck eating some orange chicken, is all I have to say.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

What does it say about you two, where your dream 'kind of makes sense' and Tom's involves a vulture and life insurance? I, myself, spent new year's day in a ball on the floor of my bathroom. I find it works best for hot flashes and etc.

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Amber and Alice both do ballet lessons, both because they wanted to.

Recently, Amber's teacher wanted her to join an 'elite' squad who get more individual tuition towards a career in ballet. Amber is seven.

To be honest, I'm not 'for' this as i don't think Amber wants to commit at this stage. I can see what they see in her: She's very pretty, skinny, not too tall, so has that 'elegance'. But heck, there are other things we could spend the money on. To their advantage, I shold say.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

mark, let her do it for a while, she'll make up her mind by the time she's 12 and wants (or doesn't want) a social life.
Considering I normally got "men" roles like Mouse King, Russian and Turkish doll, and tin soldier, I don't think I was in it for the pretty costumes. I just liked to dance.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

That's what I figured. My sister did it as a 'career' and ran a dance troup around Turkey, amongst other things. (I joined in for one hilarious summer, but that's another story).

Entirely objectively, Amber's pretty enough to do anything she wants to. I've known a lot of dancers and its a hand-to-mouth existance at the best of times. "You can be flying to antigua and chauffered to a shoot one week, and be handing out leaflets on street corners the next" as one told me, back in the day.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

On the other hand (and not that anyone *should* let the pressure of deadlines make decisions for er...one, but as long as we're weighing in...), if she studies up until age 11-12 or whenever girls start on pointe these days, at least she'll have the option.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Exactly. She doesn't need to be 'pushed that little bit harder' right now (as it was explained to me).

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Nope. I did jazz for 10 years and I guess I wanted to be a Broadway dancer at one point but never a ballerina. Mostly, I just wanted to be a sleuth.

― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

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