Ballerina Mary (by sarah)
Bless her - I need to sort new ballet classes for Mary - she informs me her shoes are now too small so she can't practice in her room properly anymore and she wants to be really good when she goes back - main issue all the "schools" I've found seem obsessed with putting shows on which I don't think is a good attitude for ballet and certainly wasn't the attitude of the original class (one of the reasons we picked it).
We all loved the dance school at the Guild Hall but her orig ballet teacher had a baby and has moved to Bristol and that was before the summer :/ Am I being over cautious? Elderly ballet dancers I knew thought that pushing shows too early was bad news for proper technique.
The school the teacher recommended is in Cheltenham which seems a bit of a trek every week with everything else the kids get up too :/ Again part of the attraction of the orig class was I could walk to it if Alaric wasn't here, which I did several times. I was hoping the drama group would fill the gap but she still wants to ballet her little heart out and I often find her in her ballet outfit doing summersaults on the trampoline or lining her teddies up to show them how to dance.
I don't think she's talented as such, she's just a bouncy 6 yr old who happens to love ballet and has done since before she was out of nappies so I don't really want her to be getting stressed about shows but to be having fun and learning about her body and exercising in a way she truly has a passion for :/ I never did any of the dance malarky as a kid so am kind of wading about in unknown waters.
Fri 13th Oct 2017 6:49 am 
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