A mother worries about her dancing daughter; the director of the ballet school her daughter attends has said that her strength is her personality and the fact that people like to watch her dance. Will it make up for the fact she is not the most technical dancer? And that she has a good-enough but not ideal ballet body?
If everyone is doing the same steps and shouldn't they all presumably look the same? Is personal charisma something that any child can learn or develop?
When your dancing daughter or son has a wonderful quality to their work that is unique to them, they truly have a gift. Anyone with the right physique can learn ballet, but when eyes are drawn to a dancer it puts her/him apart from many of the other dancers. Many dancers spend years in the corp de ballet because they are excellent dancers, but their gift, ironically, is blending in. They just don't have an extra spark or magnetism that draws people's attention to them.
It is wonderful when a child is accepted into a professional ballet career training program when they don't have the perfect ballet body but their personal charisma is so obvious to those holding the auditions.
I always hope these gifted performers never eye the perfect ballet bodies that do show up in professional ballet schools and feels lesser-than in some way.
Less charismatic dancers who later in their training take some acting lessons will blossom in a way that their teachers may not have expected them to. And some become more noticeable just because they grow up and develop confidence.
One way to increase your child's confidence is to get them THE BALLET BIBLE.
(And remember to get The Parents Manual for f*ree!)
A ballet parents journal for 'my dancing daughter' who wants a professional ballet career. Pointe shoes, ballet slippers, eating disorders, stress, and how to give your child the best help to learn beginner pointe shoe exercises, ballet foot control, pointe shoe sizing, and prevent ballet injuries.
Showing posts with label professional ballet career. Show all posts
Showing posts with label professional ballet career. Show all posts
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Is There A Professional Ballet Career For My Dancing Daughter
I feel for you, because once I was a dancing daughter. I know my mom did her best so that I could have an extra advantage at having a professional ballet career.
And I bet your heart aches, for all the times that your dancing daughter moans and groans after ballet classes, that "I'm not good enough"..."so-and-so is so much better than me"...and more.
Well, know this and take comfort. No one is ever good enough in ballet. It is an occupational hazard. But, on the positive side of things, in ballet, you are always getting better. Even the prima ballerinas and lead male dancers improve all the time. There is no perfect.
If your dancing daughter, after all your time, expense, and emotional commitment, only becomes a corps de ballet member, will you love her as much?
Of course you will! As an understanding parent, you know that very few children who train in classical ballet become the prima ballerinas or premiers danseurs of their generation.
So how can you help your dancing daughter be the best she can be? Can you help in a way that matters - I don't mean your emotional and unconditionally loving support, but can you help in "the ballet world"?
You are your child's biggest support. And you can offer her even more support by finding and providing great dance education, to enhance her ballet training. Most ballet schools (yet) do not offer any education in functional anatomy, for example.
Or training in extra-curricular practice in say, special foot exercises that give her ballet muscles for pointe work. Ballet footwork is admired and mimicked by football players and tennis players, in case you didn't know. Everyone in sports desires that level of professional footwork.
To dance in pointe shoes - that is a big one!
For your younger dancing daughter, who is not yet ready to dance in ballet pointe shoes, THE Perfect Pointe Book offers a dance education with exercises to prepare for ballet footwork, that nothing else provides.
Every dancer has some limitations. The earlier they address these compromising factors, usually involving physique, the better. You can help your dancing daughter right now.
Why now? Doing these special ballet muscles exercises, will prepare your ballet dancer for dancing in pointe shoes, long before she gets there. Look at the author's presentation, and I think you will find that the material will help your dancing daughter work toward a professional ballet career.
And I bet your heart aches, for all the times that your dancing daughter moans and groans after ballet classes, that "I'm not good enough"..."so-and-so is so much better than me"...and more.
Well, know this and take comfort. No one is ever good enough in ballet. It is an occupational hazard. But, on the positive side of things, in ballet, you are always getting better. Even the prima ballerinas and lead male dancers improve all the time. There is no perfect.
If your dancing daughter, after all your time, expense, and emotional commitment, only becomes a corps de ballet member, will you love her as much?
Of course you will! As an understanding parent, you know that very few children who train in classical ballet become the prima ballerinas or premiers danseurs of their generation.
So how can you help your dancing daughter be the best she can be? Can you help in a way that matters - I don't mean your emotional and unconditionally loving support, but can you help in "the ballet world"?
You are your child's biggest support. And you can offer her even more support by finding and providing great dance education, to enhance her ballet training. Most ballet schools (yet) do not offer any education in functional anatomy, for example.
Or training in extra-curricular practice in say, special foot exercises that give her ballet muscles for pointe work. Ballet footwork is admired and mimicked by football players and tennis players, in case you didn't know. Everyone in sports desires that level of professional footwork.
To dance in pointe shoes - that is a big one!
For your younger dancing daughter, who is not yet ready to dance in ballet pointe shoes, THE Perfect Pointe Book offers a dance education with exercises to prepare for ballet footwork, that nothing else provides.
Every dancer has some limitations. The earlier they address these compromising factors, usually involving physique, the better. You can help your dancing daughter right now.
Why now? Doing these special ballet muscles exercises, will prepare your ballet dancer for dancing in pointe shoes, long before she gets there. Look at the author's presentation, and I think you will find that the material will help your dancing daughter work toward a professional ballet career.
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