tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post5594620635386424524..comments2024-02-28T08:15:38.345+02:00Comments on Pointe Til You Drop: "I Know It's Hard For You.."Johannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06703652246667999345noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-45899483942311618322011-12-16T10:58:44.053+02:002011-12-16T10:58:44.053+02:00Dear Shannon, now you made me cry :´)
I'm so ...Dear Shannon, now you made me cry :´)<br /><br />I'm so happy for you that you found your way to ballet after all! Your class schedule is very impressive, and taking ballet with teenagers can actually be an advantage. All this combined with your love for dance will take you to wonderful new places. That I am sure of! <br /><br />I realize now just how lucky I was with my first ballet class - Johannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06703652246667999345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-26149147011665689042011-12-16T04:00:50.123+02:002011-12-16T04:00:50.123+02:00Thank you so much for writing this blog! I just di...Thank you so much for writing this blog! I just discovered it today, and it's like you are saying what is in my own heart. I grew up poor in a small town and there was no option for ballet. I tried it when I was 21 (like you!) but what I didn't realize was that college level Ballet 101 isn't for true beginners. So i figured, this isn't for me. Not until I turned 30 did I try Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-23043277249145894312011-12-06T21:35:13.955+02:002011-12-06T21:35:13.955+02:00Thank you Kaija, for your lovely feedback!
Someti...Thank you Kaija, for your lovely feedback!<br /><br />Sometimes I forget that I've come a long way. For an adult dancer who has no background in dance prior to her 21st birthday, I'm doing pretty well. I have worked around my limitations, and some are not so limiting anymore! <br /><br />It's like you wrote, we are FREE to do as we like. Free to enjoy, free to happily fail and try Johannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06703652246667999345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-79143804173180436722011-12-01T22:26:34.854+02:002011-12-01T22:26:34.854+02:00Hi Fellow Dancer!
I do agree with you: talent is ...Hi Fellow Dancer!<br /><br />I do agree with you: talent is more than innate physical ballet suitability. But this was the only talent that I was refering to. I guess because my teacher speaks only of talent when someone has natural turn-out or very high legs. You know, the kind that might have granted you access to vocational training.<br /><br />But I do know that it takes so much more, even ifJohannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06703652246667999345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-55733711400444374392011-12-01T21:48:36.562+02:002011-12-01T21:48:36.562+02:00Hi Kritzelfee!
My first ballet teacher did not ha...Hi Kritzelfee!<br /><br />My first ballet teacher did not have the ideal ballerina body, but she was a very elegant dancer. Wonderful musicality, clean technique, good jump & balance & pirouettes, and most of all - she had a very commanding presence! <br /><br />I am sorry you can't take as many classes as you want. I know what that is like! In my early twenties I lived on a very Johannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06703652246667999345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-46801334366084799832011-11-29T12:51:29.358+02:002011-11-29T12:51:29.358+02:00Lovely post and well said...I'm going to mark ...Lovely post and well said...I'm going to mark this and re-read it when I'm having one of those frustrating "bad days" and use it to reframe and refocus :) You are so right about the wonderful fact that we chose ballet even if it wouldn't have chosen US. Working within your limitations and finding the way to wring every last bit of potential from your body often makes you Kaijanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-1715497076050403002011-11-29T12:50:04.442+02:002011-11-29T12:50:04.442+02:00Some consider interes and motivation an integral a...Some consider interes and motivation an integral aspect of being talented in something, and I tend to agree. Talent is so much more than turnout, long legs or a bendy back. Those help in achieving certain positions in ballet, granted, but are not everything. Besides, one tends to notice and envy in others those features that they find themselves lacking. Think of your strong sides; do all of yourFellowDancernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-74480155702713077762011-11-28T20:39:46.170+02:002011-11-28T20:39:46.170+02:00Hey :)
as my teacher said, I seem to have that ba...Hey :)<br /><br />as my teacher said, I seem to have that ballet body and it's a pity I started so late... I'm really sad that I haven't started younger and that I doubtet so long about it. Because I really really love ballet and I would take as many classes as possible if I could afford. <br />My teacher is not a ballet-body giftet as she says but she is so good and passionate that IYvonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17571988803410700198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-64770216696539290862011-11-27T22:16:57.176+02:002011-11-27T22:16:57.176+02:00Hi sweetie!
Head up and chin high - I can feel yo...Hi sweetie!<br /><br />Head up and chin high - I can feel your disappointment, but you will improve! Mistakes, even failures, are part of learning and can eventually propel you further than you thought was even possible! <br /><br />The most perfect turn-out is not even necessary, despite that we all dream about it. What counts is how you use whatever you've got. Correct alignment and clean Johannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06703652246667999345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6620316363664400359.post-91337864177666614212011-11-27T21:53:33.738+02:002011-11-27T21:53:33.738+02:00Thank you very much for this entry. I had yesterda...Thank you very much for this entry. I had yesterday my first ballet exam and I failed...I was crying a lot all day long, but my teacher told me not to give it up. Cause it´s what you say... even though I don´t have a perfect turnout I work hard everyday and that makes me feel different and special for have been taken ballet and not any other dance! Ballet is challenging ! So Im taking 2 exams Belen Aguilar Romerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14466760480589576390noreply@blogger.com