ballet

I love to dance, I take ballet classes at The Portland Ballet. I have taken classes since I was nine, which is a little late to start but I still enjoy it very much. When I finish my class I sit outside the door to the level six classes, level six is the highest level, and I watch the ballerinas spin and jump across the floor. I watch them balance on the tip of their pointe shoes.

When I was in fourth grade my mom signed me up for an audition at The Portland Ballet. Two weeks after the audition I got a yellow card that said I got in and would be starting classes in September. I didn’t like the first few classes, but after a while I started to like them and soon I was practicing everywhere I went.

People don’t understand that ballet is a sport, a lot of people think it’s dainty and fragile and doesn’t take any physical demand. But the people who say that don’t have a clue about how hard ballet is. Ballet isn’t something you can fake, you can’t make it look like you know how to do something without actually doing right. If you don’t use correct form you can get a serious injury.

Earlier this year I broke my foot during the ballet audition to get into a different level. I had to spend three weeks in a cast and a month in a walking boot. When People asked me how I broke it I would tell them that I broke it doing ballet. They would give me a look of disbelief as if I was lying, some would just ask how can u get hurt in ballet also with the tone indicating they didn’t believe it.

Many people don’t think ballet is a real sport or hard but they don’t know how many hours most dancers put into practice. They also aren’t aware of the fact that many of the boy ballerinas were football players and soccer players who gave up their previous sport to do ballet.