I am from Canada and started at 4 years old doing tap, jazz, and ballet until I 20.
I started with a small company where there was no body image issues or focused on. You could choose competitive, non competitive and with ballet I always had chances to move up grades with demonstrative exams.
I was in the Nutcracker ( I had to compete against a lot of girls throughout my province) and danced it for 6 years straight.
At 14, I was invited on full scholarships to the Royal Winnipeg in Canada too, a major ballet dance company. This school was intense but I was never demeaned or told I wasn't good enough
I left because of injury doing pointe ballet to my knee and retired at 20.
In my experience I have NEVER encountered all the negativity that gets spewed out this show. The adults are appalling and the teacher as well.
There will always be competition in the world of dance, but all my instructors would wear dance apparel and would actually do hands on teaching without pitting students against each other and constantly being yelled at.
Cool your heels lady, you're going break these young girls spirits and eventually they will lose their love of dance!
I started with a small company where there was no body image issues or focused on. You could choose competitive, non competitive and with ballet I always had chances to move up grades with demonstrative exams.
I was in the Nutcracker ( I had to compete against a lot of girls throughout my province) and danced it for 6 years straight.
At 14, I was invited on full scholarships to the Royal Winnipeg in Canada too, a major ballet dance company. This school was intense but I was never demeaned or told I wasn't good enough
I left because of injury doing pointe ballet to my knee and retired at 20.
In my experience I have NEVER encountered all the negativity that gets spewed out this show. The adults are appalling and the teacher as well.
There will always be competition in the world of dance, but all my instructors would wear dance apparel and would actually do hands on teaching without pitting students against each other and constantly being yelled at.
Cool your heels lady, you're going break these young girls spirits and eventually they will lose their love of dance!