Did you take ballet?

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Yeaup from 3 to 15 I did.

I was going to do it professionally and had been accepted by 2 really good ballet schools to continue to the professional level except then guardians made me move here and I didn't have the money to continue, nor were full scholarships available here for my age level.

So sadly that was the end of that. I wouldn't mind going back to it for fun but these days I mainly dance other styles.

I took ballet for one school year when I was 7 but I didn't want to do it again because I was big for my age and I was much larger than all the other girls in the class and I couldn't stand wearing tights because they crept around on my body and when I wore them to school the crotch crept down around my knees under my skirt and I couldn't pull them up in front of everybody and I couldn't stand to comb my hair so I couldn't put it in a ponytail (it was too short for a bun) and I hated changing clothes in front of other girls because I was so large. But I still remember nearly everything I learned in that class.

I took ballet at 3 and then again at 7, until the teacher pulled my mom aside and said, "Mrs. {mv's mom}, you really shouldn't waste your money anymore."



And this wasn't some snooty elite French- or Russian-discipline school, this was local community theater! Where they live by the classes they can give to the community!

I wasn't allowed to take ballet

My best friend took ballet, tap and modern dance...I wanted to too because I loved dance but my mother wouldn't let me because A. I was always very tall yet for ballet my mother insisted you had to be petite and B. because I was unable to be around people without having meltdowns - both fair enough points. My mother has always had this lovely habit of treating other people's kids more like her kids than me, so she'd make costumes, help with make-up and talk-up my best friend while I just had to sit and watch.

This is my excuse for watching really bad dance films

Yes, I took creative dancing when I was 5 and when I was 6 I took ballet. I wasn't very good at it though.

I took dancing classes from the age of 3 until I was 13, which included ballet. When I was about 10, I started to do additional ballet classes. I should have continued, but when my periods started, they were hellish and I missed the classes every few weeks, then I felt I had to give up. I do Zumba now and I do feel a bit of regret about what happened. When I see the Zumba instructors doing their thing, I feel I might have been able to do something like that as a career, if I'd found a way to continue. They don't even need to speak much, they just demonstate and smile. That said, it's an option, even without the dance training (even at my age), but I need to get better at it and fitter, before I even consider going for Zumba instructor training.

I wish my daughter would take classes, in any sort of dance. I'm pretty certain it's the reason I can go to a party and dance and don't feel self conscious (I don't look like a dork). She's tried the usual class, which was uninspiring and she only went for a couple of months. Then she did street dance and zumbatomic (only went to one class of each then refused).

I'm still (in my 40s) *SO* clumsy that I try to do things like Zumba, and I muddle through them, but I never get quite good or comfortable with it. Sometimes the instructor will demonstrate something and I literally cannot translate in my head how to make my body do that step or movement.

I think dance isn't for everyone. {shrug} I have many other talents!

^ My hyperfocusing comes into it's own when I'm watching a dance instructor. I completely home in, in what she's doing and learn choreography quickly. But, I started dance lessons at 3, so I honestly think that's how I'm able to do it. You can easily spot the ones at Zumba who had dance lessons as a child, most people take ages to learn new dances. I'm not all that co-ordinated normally - I can't drive, miss the bottom step often and just don't get on with mirrors at all.

I did calesthenics when I was 6 to the age of 7 and was kicked out due to being too tall.

It is no great loss as I am not the dancing type. I refuse to put my 3 yr old Aspie daughter into dance with all the other girls her age because she is already the height of a 6 yr old and towers a head height over the other 3 yr old girls. I don't want to push body insecurity issues from a young age.

I did it for two years, I think, when I was 4 and 5.

I took ballet when I was 9-12, but I was horrible at it.

Took ballet for a couple of years to help balance and coordination when I was 7 -8