I haven't been eating as healthy as I could, but I just had a pizza phase for 2 days. I wasn't a health nut last night, but it wasn't pizza.
I think it's the gym that helped me. I got excited at the music last time.
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I guess it's important to start ballet before you're 5. It might robotize you, but I'd do it. I started at 5, and I couldn't focus. I did gymnastics, but we didn't do dance forms that early. I actually stayed in it until I turned 9. I started gymnastics at 1 3|4. I was attune to the physicality I was introduced to in ballet, but I couldn't do it. I did better after quitting gymnastics and starting piano for awhile, when there was no ballet where we moved. I even quit gymnastics just to have an open schedule. Too bad I was too worried about being half Chinese to wonder about carpooling.
When we moved when I was 7, the ballet school wasn't like serious. It was more artsy but not like in the same way as multi-dimensional. I guess it was because at first I was fortunate to find a French teacher. She moved to Georgia and taught college, when we moved, too. So, I asked my mom to take me out and find a new place. I don't know that she found one but asked if I wanted to just take more gymnastics. I was also in baton, so I had a lot of long marching in the hot sun, in mid-Southeastern Florida, along the coast. So, I said yes to more gymnastics but never had the guts to be on a team. It seemed plausible. I just knew that then I would be less multi-talented, though that thought never came to surface. So, we moved again, from where I lived at 9-turning 12. I took ballet, by choice, at the first place we went to, a modern dance studio, but I was upset when I found it was only once a week. They recommended I wait and start later, since it was the middle of the year and they just started the recital. They let me in and I was in the recital. After 2 1|2 years, ... oh yea, it was gentle ... I moved to a private ballet studio. I was with some enthusiastic girls 3-4 years younger. I was there from age 15-17. When I was 16, I tried just doing the adult class, and at 17 I took Thursday off to do gymnastics and Saturday off to go to arts school for classical music as a pianist. After that, I would have switched to the big dance school. Someone from there told me at 16 that where I went was better and that she couldn't dance, though she went there 6 days a week. When I went there, they said you could go anywhere from 1-6 days a week and that The Nutcracker is about if the costume fits. So, I came back, and it seemed like a serious place, just for ages up to 18|high school. So, I went to summer camp at my old school. I was too old for theater, then, too, in the summer, when the kids put on a musical. During the year, they didn't always do much, if anything. I went to the activities my first year of high school.
Looking back, the ballet school I went to seemed like it gave you a lot of chance, but I'll admit it's not quite as hard|strict.
So, yes, ballet is a workout that made me sweat all over, particularly at the class I went to for teens. It was probably hard when I began the kids's class. I also tried jazz, lyrical, tap, and modern. The new school I want to go to doesn't have as much of extra classes but has them, probably not tap and lyrical. So, I lost a lot of weight that year but took off to catch up on rest and see if I could get taller. It's been 5 years, and I did.
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