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Do you have to do character dance?

I want to start doing Ballet, all the studios i looked at have things about character along side the ballet section. Do you have to do Character Dance if you want to just do classical ballet?

Update:

thanks for the great answers, and also do you have to wear character shoes and character skirts to do character dance within ballet?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Usually if you're going into Dance that has grades E.g the RAD (Royal Academy Of Dance) Syllabus that goes up to grade 8 then you'll usually do 4 sections.

    Barre, Classical/center work, Free movement and then Character. You'll either do a Classical or Free movement dance and then you'll do a character dance, this is for your exams and you'll learn all this in class.

    If you're doing the Major Vocational exams, then you won't do Character, you'll just do Barre, Classical/Center, and Pointe work.

    Then again though, If you're a beginner then you wont be put into the Major grades E.g Intermediate Adv 1, Adv 2.

    You'll probably be put into a graded class of your ability.

    Source(s): Ballet student. RAD Website.
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    it fairly is portion of ballet. Ballet is a appearing artwork, and you're taking a character on point while you carry out. Many ballets have character dance as portion of it, or perhaps even with the shown fact that ballet is its own type, employing what you learn in character dance would be clever. point presence is extremely significant in ballet (alongside with musicality and technique). have exciting, be expert, and try for perfecting your artwork.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    character dance is part of the syllabus and you can't really take ballet classes because they are all graded. i think you have to just do character.its not bad at all its pretty fun really :Pxx

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