![]() #BEFIT BALLET BEAUTIFUL FULL#I can recall having five blisters on one foot before and my second-toe nails fell off so often that I don’t think I had a full set of nails all through high school (sorry if anybody is eating and reading right now.)Įvery ballet position is a full-body position and requires the use of every muscle group. We’ve all seen, in a particularly extreme example, how ballet can affect one’s mind, as well as her feet, in Black Swan and I’ll tell you that at least the feet part is common. I can’t remember what it was like before taking ballet classes and I can’t remember whose decision it was for me to initially start taking them, but I lived and breathed it until I surprised the hell out of myself my senior year or high school and decided I wanted to do sports that year instead of dance. By that point, I was taking classes six days a week, sometimes three in one night and I would have to use my hand to hold down the brake pedal on my way home from class because my legs were shaking so bad. I didn’t get into any other type of dance besides ballet until my last year of taking classes, when I added jazz, lyrical, and hip-hop. ![]() Maybe it’s some kind of Spandex-soluble, Classical music transmitted energy or something, but the second you walk into that studio, you can’t help but turn into a dancing queen, young and sweet. It was almost a hypnotized feeling because ballet is not something you can half-ass, even on purpose. From age six to 17, I would don my leotard and tights and I would only think of pliés, and relevés, and the smell of rosin, and the feel of the barre under my hand and the five, six, seven, eight, ONE in time with the music. ![]() Ballet class was when, at the risk of sounding cliché, everything else kind of went away for a while. ![]()
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