Gorgeous! And true. Our daughter did ballet for 8 years and loved it. She learned many things and she still breaks out her moves on a regular basis. Unfortunately for her, one of the lessons we learned was that dance culture, being run entirely by women and mothers and little girls, can be a deeply catty, cliquey thing to navigate. Dance culture would strongly benefit from the presence of a few strong men - fathers in particular - who stand up and say NO, my daughter isn't wearing that, NO, my daughter isn't going to gyrate and pelvic thrust like that, NO, dear, it's not "cute", it's trashy. Find yourself a good dance studio, one that only teaches ballet if you can. It's worth putting them in a class. But probably steer clear of jazz or tap because it's very grown up nowadays.
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Hippie_Housewife ago
Gorgeous! And true. Our daughter did ballet for 8 years and loved it. She learned many things and she still breaks out her moves on a regular basis. Unfortunately for her, one of the lessons we learned was that dance culture, being run entirely by women and mothers and little girls, can be a deeply catty, cliquey thing to navigate. Dance culture would strongly benefit from the presence of a few strong men - fathers in particular - who stand up and say NO, my daughter isn't wearing that, NO, my daughter isn't going to gyrate and pelvic thrust like that, NO, dear, it's not "cute", it's trashy. Find yourself a good dance studio, one that only teaches ballet if you can. It's worth putting them in a class. But probably steer clear of jazz or tap because it's very grown up nowadays.