How are you young dancers coping ?

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My heart goes out to all you young dancers trying to maintain and indeed advance your training.

Here in the UK we have no performances again and as a dance school I've worked only 18 weeks in live classes for this whole year.  I have a teacher who works with zoom but it cannot be as effective as live classes.  Even in a class I have to distance and so cannot take a childs foot and place it in the right position etc but describe and show what I need which is not the same.

Just wondering how it is for you all and what each country is managing to do.

Sincerely hope that 2021 brings an end to this awful situation

Picture is me at 67 yrs old feeling nostalgic :)   Once ballet is in your blood it never leaves no matter how old you get.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

My daughter is a dance teacher, mostly ballet and tap. She is teaching from home with  Zoom. 
She is certified to teach Progressing Ballet Technique.  A lot of the ballet students are taking this class from them to keep in shape.
She lives in California. She now has a couple of private PBT classes with students from a studio in the midwest her friend runs. 
For her tap class she had each student send her a tape of them tapping their holiday tap dance. She and her husband spent a weekend editing it into one presentation and then sent it back to the studio. All the student and parents can watch it.

I was a dancer too.  All in all, teaching  in Zoom is turning out better than I thought it could. Although everyone wants back into the classroom.  They are making do. But they have lost many dancers. Hopefully they can pick up again at some point next year.

The studio has a contemporary/ballet class for older women. Their oldest dance just turned 90 and still is performing.

Ludwig · Answer

I have never seen that film Kes where the little coal miner saves up for a tutu and dances swan lake in his pit boots, but I sympathise with those who wish to follow their dreams.  'To your own self be true'.  That was what Walt Disney said.

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