Little Ballerina

[velvetpage]

Every night at this time, the characters from a kids' show called The Toy Castle do a little display of a ballet step. It seems every time I see it, they're doing grands pliés. Well, Elizabeth has started dancing along with the examples, mostly by bending down at the knee and coming up again, very slowly. She also points with one foot off to the side, and then bends again. It's so, so cute! How young do ballet classes start, anyway?

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[anidada.livejournal.com]

Really young. 18 months, depending. It's mostly "move to the music" stuff, though, so you could do that at home. The real ballet classes usually start around 3 or 4. :) You need to videotape her dancing like that, if you can. We should bring the camera over. *grin*

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Please do! We're going to try to catch her on the digital camera sometime soon - it will do short movie clips. I think we're going to wait for the 3-year-old classes. It seems to make sense to wait until they understand and can follow directions more than four words long. :)

[anidada.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Oh yeah. Good point. :D