Ballet

Pointe shoes are quite expensive. They can reach from $50 up to $130. I am a dancer/ballerina myself and mine is $115😅 But it is worth it considering the excitement you feel when you get your pointe shoes (especially your first ones). But remember, you have to get permission from your ballet teacher/coach to go on pointe as pointework is pretty dangerous for inexperienced dancers and dancers with weak ankles.

Even though ballet oringinated in Italy, it quickly traveled to France. There, it developed more and became more structured before it spread to other countries. Since it was developed by the French court, the terms are in their language...French.

I am not an expert, this is just to give you an idea of what is involved in learning pointe. I believe the minimum age you can learn is about 12 and many would say even older than that. This is because doing pointe before your body is fully developed can do permanent and serious injury. For those old enough, years of training is required to build the appropriate muscle strength and posture. If you began as an adult such as myself, (I am still in my 20's) to dance on pointe, most teachers will tell you that it requires 5 hours or more a week for a number of years to build up the strength required so that you will not hurt yourself.

Every body is different, some people may never be able to dance on pointe and some people may be able to progress to the advanced level more quickly. It depends on the dancer but you must have proper training and a qualified ballet master to teach you.

I like to think no one stands in the way of our dreams but ourselves, so anything is possible!

It depends on how long you have been dancing and the dance school you're in. Usually the norm is to give it 3-4 solid years of training and prep (not particularly pre-pointe, but at least working up to that)

For the average dancer who starts around 6-8 years of age the normal time to start pre-pointe and pointe is around 13 and 14 years of age.

If you start later it will depend purely on how quickly you strengthen and learn dance, on your body type, and when your instructor says you're ready to begin.

you can buy it from the dance shop 'BLOCH'. you can also get a copy of the DVD there too. =]

Who is dancing now? Clifton Brown or Desmond Richardson

Famous historically? Alvin Ailey or Arthur Mitchell

Albert Evans currently dancing with NYCB . Clifton Brown is not a ballet dancer but Contemporary dancer. Desmond Richardson is also a contemporary ballet dancer (Complexions)

Many people believe ballet started in France but ballet was created in Italy during the Renaissance. It later spread to France during Luis XIV's time and became extremely popular. That's where they got the words for the different movements.

You would be paid on a union scale, and must join the union to participate.

Nope! Fouette turns are a lot harder than they look! Dancers can make them look easy but the truth is you better have an amazing turn out to make it look good.

Hope this helps you!

I would go with a Grishko Elite. Those are very good for wide feet. Also, any kind of Blochs work too. And then there are Russian Pointes. Those are very hard. There are lots of different varieties of them so i suggest you try them all :)

An art, the performers do not compete with one another, they come together to deliver an artistic performance with each dancer playing their part in that performance. You must also include the behind the scenes professionals that support the delivery of the performance.

Weeeeell...... lyrical is more deep and you can be more free-spirited in it... it's a way to sort of express your emotions in a dance.

Lyrical, you use more of the floor spcae instead of staying on your feet. As you probably notice, watching lyrical dnces, they are not always on thier feet.

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There are all sorts of different costumes; From Animal costumes, to ballet costumes. So the costumes vary, depending on who was on the stage at times.

Maria Tallcheif was the first American Prima Ballerina

Well, every ballet step involves technique. For example, you can't just battement or 'kick' your leg to the side and call it a 'good kick.' It might be really high, but there are so many other things you have to think about and make sure are correct like, 'was the working leg (the leg you battement) and the supporting leg (the leg you stand on) straight AND turned out?' ' am I standing up straight?' ' was my foot pointed?' and many, many other little details you have to have be sure you do when you perform that battement. It also takes so much time and practice and strength to develop that technique. A ballerina may make that Grande Battement look effortless, but there's a lot more to it then just flinging you leg in the air.

If you know what a degage is, then you know that it is a move where you brush your foot against the floor and then let it come of the floor. Picture it as an airplane on a runway. The air plane takes of by driving on the ground (in this case brushing your foot on the floor) and then the plane lifts off (the foot leaves the floor and goes into the air). This is almost the same thing as a battement degage, except when your leg lifts off the ground in a degage, it normally stays at most a half foot off the ground. In a battement degage, however, the legs is thrown into the air, many feet of the ground. Many well-trained ballerinas can kick their head with their leg in a battement degage. Ballet dancers usually just call a battement degage a battement for short.

Denah Greogory is a amazing dancer. Her solos have been choreographed by professionals choreographers and she has won many titles and awards and she is only 12! She has many dance videos on youtube.

A tutu overlay is a piece of embelished fabric that is tacked to the tulle of a tutu. Without an overlay, the tutu is usually a plain, solid color and is quite boring. The overlay adds decoration.

The Jeffrey Ballet performs at 10 E Randolph St' I'll 60601 ( between State St & Wabash Ave). They also travel around the world doing performances for people.

Barrenness is the same as infertility: the inability to have children, or in the case of land, to bear crops. In the Bible, the word is mostly applied to women.

Victor d'Andre

The most famous Christmas ballet is the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky.

Go on line and see if they do auditions in South Africa. Otherwise you may have to send them a DVD of you dancing, or go to the Royal Ballet school in London.