Guest Luv2DancePointe Posted September 22, 2002 Report Share Posted September 22, 2002 Hello! I just thought I'd let everyone know some stuff about me, since I'm new to this site! I am 16 and have been dancing for 7 years. This is my sad strange dance history/story...: I started dancing at one studio and took Ballet, Tap, and Jazz. I stayed there for one year. Then I went to a different studio with my friend and took only Ballet. After being there 1 year, we were told that we would be en Pointe the following year. But then we got a new teacher and she said we weren't ready. That made me really mad, because it was my dream to dance Pointe!! But anyway's I was at that studio for 3 years and then switched because I still wasn't dancing en Pointe yet. so at the studio I'm at now I was there for 1 year dancing Ballet and Pre-Pointe.(yea!) and that summer Pointe. And now this past year I've been dancing Ballet and Pointe, and that's what I'm doing this year too!! My first year dancing en Pointe I wore So Danca's. But recently I got new shoes - Grishko 2007's! I like 'em. Thanx for reading!! Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted September 22, 2002 Report Share Posted September 22, 2002 Welcome to the Young Dancers' Forum on Ballet Talk here at Ballet Alert! Online! While I'm glad you enjoy pointe, many people find it a necessary evil, the reason you weren't put on pointe back when is probably twofold. After only two years of study, you weren't strong enough, and, doing the arithmetic, you weren't old enough. Link to comment
Guest CopaCabannaGirl Posted September 25, 2002 Report Share Posted September 25, 2002 I agree with Major Johnson, Your Ankles and feet maybe even your back, wernt strong enough! But All I can say is that was the past! Lets look forward into the future! Oh and this is a great board I hope you like it! Ms Leigh and Major Johnson give many great/helpful tips! Link to comment
Guest Luv2DancePointe Posted September 25, 2002 Report Share Posted September 25, 2002 Maybe you miss understood, but I meant that I would have been starting pointe after 3 years of ballet and when I was 13 almost 14. I think I would have been fine, but like you said, it's in the past! Link to comment
Administrators Victoria Leigh Posted September 25, 2002 Administrators Report Share Posted September 25, 2002 That was not clear in your post, Luv2Dance, but it's also possible that you weren't ready because your training had not been adequate or intensive enough to give you the strength and all the technical basics that one needs for pointe. Link to comment
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