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My son wants to dance. What do I do? Should a boy take pointe?My son wants to study ballet. My husband is not keen to let him learn because of the notion that ballet is for girls. I'm willing to give it a shot, but I'm hoping to get sound advice. Should a boy take pointe? If so, at what age? Thanks Juliet January 6, 2012 | In Questions | 3 Comments3 Responses to “My son wants to dance. What do I do? Should a boy take pointe?”Leave a Reply |
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For starters I think it is great that your son is intrested in ballet. Generally boys don’t take pointe but focus more on high jumps or leaps. Find a notible ballet school who has a boys ballet class (so he won’t feel like the only boy who dances) and he should take min. of 2 classes a week if he wants to see improvement: also this is one of my all time favourite quotes: If ballet was easy it would be called football…
Hello Juliet
Great to read that you want to support your son in taking ballet. Being a man myself and having run a ballet school for several years I know that your husband may have doupts in his son going to ballet. It is always difficult for most fathers to accept that their sons want to give ballet a try. Tell him that it is a try and that, even if he has resentments, it would be good if he would be supportive. I had much of the same problem, but once I was able to show results my father was one of the best supporters I had.
There is not always the possibility in finding a ballet school with a boys class. My recommendation is that if the teacher is supportive and wants to have the boy in class then go for that and watch carefully how your son is integrated. Many times he will be the only one, tell him what a chance he has being the only male with so many girls and what his friends are all missing by not being able to attend ballet.
Male in ballet does not mean that your son is or will become gay in any way, do not be afraid of that. If a male is gay then this has nothing to do with ballet, its something I had and have to explain over and over. This would anyhow not show early in a boys life.
Other thing will be the acceptance of his going to ballet by other boys. I tend to recommend that as the boy is doing something really special he should keep it at first a secret to him self and the family. I have found that one can talk very open even with young boys about this and was always able to find a solution. In our school we had a 5 year old boy and he did not want to keep it a secret. His parents invited all his friends for a afternoon with video. They were watching Billy Eliot and there was a discussion after. Result: we had 3 boys in the school which gave it a try, one left soon and the other stayed over 1 year. Due to that there was no mobbing problems from his best friends.
-> Let us know after some time how it all went and if he liked it or not. I would also be interested to read what kind of teacher you found and how he was integrated in class.
All the best
Smart
Hello Juliet,
please apologize my English, I´m not a native speaker.
My son (8 years old) attends ballet lesson for about a year. His teacher finds him very talented. And I am so proud.
I think ballet is good for boys. Let see male ballet dancer – their figures are admirable and skills perfect.
My son is only boy in girls´ class. But it´s OK. He is in the spotlight and he likes it.
I have to say I´m very very happy he is interested in ballet.
Best
Annie