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What would you rather enroll your young daughter in?
Ballet or Ballroom dancing and Dance?
and at what age?
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I can't help you in the Ballroom dance subject but I have done ballet for 9 years and I have been teaching young ballet classes for 3 years. So I would start ballet at a young age. At my studio you can start at as young as 18 months. As long as they can walk they can have fun with the class. They can start at this young age with a parent or caregiver. Once they reach the age 3 they can start pre-ballet. This is not a creative movement class. The young kids do learn steps in ballet just in a fun way. Ex. when we are teaching them polkas, we tell them to gallop like a horse. Then eventually we tell them to keep switching feet and they have polka steps. And they can jump like a bunny rabbit and be a butterfly. But it is not a creative movement class. I would recommend taking a class like this so you know that your daughter will actually get something out of the class and use it later in life.
Source(s): Ballerina - Cheryl GLv 71 decade ago
Well, ballet and ballroom are for an older age group. Ballet requires an intense regime, flexibility and twisting of the body that very young bones don't tolerate well and ballroom requires strong body control and memorization of movements.
Start her off in a creative movement/dance class which will stress rhythm and movement. She needs to learn to keep time with the music and to interpret what she's hearing by using her body's movements. She'll develop a sense of timing, grace, balance and fluidity that will serve her well in other aspects of her life, as well.
The best aspect of any introduction to dance should be to have fun. Get going with the music first. The tough stuff can come later.
Source(s): Mom. - 1 decade ago
Depends on the age of your daughter i would go for a class that is aimed for her age group my daughter goes to a group for 3 to 5 year old on a saturday morning as she is 4 and they do a mixture of dances .
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
My daughter was enrolled in ballet, tap and gymnastics at age 3. She kept up with it till she was about 10 then she got tired of it.