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What is ballet?
Ballet is a complex mixture of technique and basically a fair bit of coordination and musicality (which is feeling and moving with the music). You have to perform it confident…ly and it has to fit the mood of the dance and music. It is a very beautiful dance when it is done properly. But much more beautiful a 'Pas de deux en pointe'. It takes years and years to perfect and you have to be fit and flexible and also very committed. "Is someone seriously asking this question? Wow. Does someone out there really not know? Well, may as well fill in the blanks here... Aside from the answer above... Ir's a form of classical dance that's seemingly gymnastic and acrobatic to formal classical music--usually referred to either as "the girliest, most gayest thing there is" or the "most demanding, exhausting, consuming and difficult sport there is." Traditionally done in tights and slippers, ballet seems so impossible, yet so feminine. And it's the one sport totally dominated and just better done by women. What is ballet, really? It's everything, really. It's a form of exercise, a body sculpting. It's as an athletic sport as football. Only the players all work together to create something together instead of trying to stop the others efforts. It's an out-of-body, ESP spiritual experience. It's an art form. It's a happening. It's an event. It's everything and anything at once. Ballet is even therapeutic because it gets a lot of excess energy, thought and worry off your mind and body and replaces it with a pleasantly released serene feeling. Like climaxing or releasing stress. Many misconstrue that you need to be rich, posh, snobby, female, intellectual, upper-crust and thin as a wafer to get it. That's just narrow-minded stereotyping idiocy. All ballet really requires is that while you're doing it (every minute you're doing it), you to give everything about yourself every moment. The sight of the empty dance studio early in the morning... no one is around... it's a little drafty, but a little warm at the same time... a pair of worn, battered, beaten ballet slippers on the hardwood floor... the old, weathered, but still hard and durable barre' on the wall... the dust floating through the air by the sunlight at the window.... it's all so d***ed beautiful, you know. It makes it all worth it. Well, that was my OWN PERSONAL ANSWER. But... Hell, thanks for asking!" (MORE)