Our word ballet comes form the Italian ball are, to dance, and it is to the courts of Italy at the height of the Renaissance that we the beginning of ballet as we know it today.
Ballet must be seen to be enjoyed, but many of us are more easily entert...
Our word ballet comes form the Italian ball are, to dance, and it is to the courts of Italy at the height of the Renaissance that we the beginning of ballet as we know it today.
Ballet must be seen to be enjoyed, but many of us are more easily entertained if we have in advance some information about an art that happens to be strange to us.
Children should begin to study when they are eight, nine, or ten years old-certainly not before they are eight. All you can really do with children before the age of eight is permit them to run around, dance a little, and sing songs. This, of course, is recreation and produces noreal result. Before the age of eight, ballet training can actually be harmful. It is serious training and it is hard work physically. In ballet class the first thing we teach the children are the basic ballet positions, positions directions. Because the bones and joints are still soft at this early age, we never force children into the basic ballet position. If they can't do them perfectly, we wait. If you over train the small, undeveloped muscles of children, the muscles become hard and don't develop properly with the body and the child is art to be come deformed. So even when a child begins at eight, we are very careful. Movement of ballet must serious training and it is hard work physically. (Port de bras and En de hors)