The Ballet Bible

Major Problems

TWO PROBLEMS:

1. I have trouble keeping both of my legs straight in fifth position without compromising the closeness/ tightness of the feet. I also can’t seem to keep both legs straight while a close from any direction into fifth. My teacher says to pull up in the hips but I’m not quite sure what she means/how to do it.

2. I have trouble keeping my weight off of my heels and onto the balls of my feet because I rely too much in the barre.

Do you need hyper extended legs

The look of hyper-extended legs is that of an ulitmate ballerina’s legs. What if you dont have them? Is there anyway that you can get them or a nice leg line?

How Do I Get A Nice Ankle Line

I have super tight ankles! is there any way/exercise I could do to help lossen/strengthen them so I can have a nicer ankle line?

Don’t know what to do

Hi everybody I have a problem. Ok, for my birthday I got a ballet bare. It can hold three hundred pounds so I pretend the bare was my parter so I would run and jumb up onto the dance bare It’s about four feet off the ground when I do this so the other day I was doing this when jumped on it when I lost my balance and fell onto all the medel that holds the bare up. So now my back is killing me and don’t want to tell my mom about it because she may take it away. So now I’m stuck with a hurting back and I don’t want to tell my mom could somebody help me?

Tendons

I have been noticing that after a ballet class my akilies tendons are really tight and as they cool down becomes painful as I walk! This has happned for a number of weeks now!! Have a hot bath does seem to do the trick but im just a bit worried that it seems to be getting worse and I dont want something awful to happen like one snapping as this happend to my old ballet teacher, she never danced the same again. So I was wondering if you have any advice and or any stretches you could do to walm them up before a class.

Thanx alot
Meg xxx

The Book

i’ve just re-read the info for ‘the ballet bible’. i’ve got to say that it made me feel like i’m missing out on this really good deal! i just want to ask if there’s like a book version. i know you could print it out from the computer after you’ve downloaded it, but i can’t be bothered.

Only Ballet Boarding School

I am 12 3/4 years old and I am interested in going to a dance* boarding school, but I hate other sports like soccer, volleyball, etc. All the schools I have found on Google offer that sort of thing. The school has to be in the U.S. If it’s not, I’ll never convince my parents to let me apply. *I can’t decide if I want it to be all kinds of dance, or just ballet. The Victorian one sounds really nice, but does anyone have personal experience of what it’s like? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

does anyone know

Does anyone reading this go to the Hamond school in Chester, as i want to go. What’s your timetable like, do you do half a day dance and half a day work or what? Please let me know any info on it please please please thankyou !!!!!!!!!!!

Elenxxx

I have a question…please help me!

Hello!I have a question..I hope you will answer me becouse nobody does…I am 17 years and I am from a small town where doesn`t exist any ballet teacher or something like that…so I can`t take ballet classes. but I love it and I really wish I could learn..my question..can I learn a few steps alone? without a teacher? I mean..I want to learn to walk on pointe and I understood that I have to be prepared for this..I have done gimnastycs 5 years but I am not very flexible… I really wish I could learn this but I need some advices..plss answer me!

How can I change my weight and obtain a ballerina’s figure without my mum noticing that I’m doing it?

Hi, I’ve been dancing for almost 11 years now and now I’m 13. I didn’t used to have a problem with my wieght and size but now as I’ve got older I think I’ve lost my ballet figure! I Really want to go on to the royal ballet company or somewhere like it and I don’t know whether they’d acept me if I didn’t quite look right and didn’t have the correct build for being on the stage.

I’m really heavy for my age - around 8 stone - well it’s heavy for a dancer and I feel that whenever i’m being lifted my partner finds it a struggle and I feel really bad and embarassed! I know that i’m supposed to help and hold my own body wieght but I find it hard. I was never really taught how to do it properly so that’s my first question; How do you hold your own body wieght when being lifted?

I have really broad shoulders. I know there’s nothing I can do about that because it’s my bone structure but it makes my head look kinda wierd and the rest of my body quite wierd as well and big. It makes me look rather butch, and people (boys) keep saying I look like a man. I just thought that if a slimmed out a bit then they’d realise that its my shoulders, not me. I don’t know where to start thought because my mum is quite large and counts me as skinny; I wont deny that compared to her i’m normal for a person, not a ballet dancer; she’d go mad if she found out that I was trying to loose a bit of weight and slim out. The first place I want to start is my bottom and thighs, i have quite a round bum which sticks out whether I hold my muscles or not - I think I have too many muscles in my bum. My thighs are mainly flab with some muscles but all the muscle is in the wrong place because my dance teacher (i’m not saying she’s bad or anything) didn’t teach me how to use the right muscles.

I’ve looked at pilates but I seem to get a book or anything without my mum finding out because if she did she may even take me out of dancing! Please help me I just don’t know what to do! Bernadette