Today I took my
first ballet class at the Academy of American Ballet in Redwood City, and it
was quite an experience. (I wish I could have started earlier, but I was finishing up Menlo's Spring Musical, Spamalot.) I was the only beginner. There were only three
students, which definitely allowed for more one on one time with the teacher.
This was really a great opportunity for me to get some of the basics together
and get help. It was definitely a bit awkward taking a class with two other
girls who are en pointe, but at least they were very nice to me!
Unfortunately, I
am not sure that after a month of sporadic classes, I will even have any
visible progress and/or improvement! I was definitely disappointed that the
class wasn’t an absolute beginners class. I was really hoping and looking for
an opportunity to first learn about ballet in general. Then, we could learn
some of the vocabulary and all of the different positions, etc. They we could
start doing movements. I basically had to dive into doing “across the floors”
and all that. It seemed a bit ridiculous for a first class. I know that I will
be able to find this elsewhere in the future, when I continue my ballet
classes. It is probably just because I am starting in May, literally the end of
the season. Ideally, I will one day go to a studio and register for an
“absolute beginners” class where NO ONE has ballet experience, and we can all
progress together. Until then, I wish myself good luck in this terrifying feat.
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