!Ballet; BALLET; BeAutifuL baLLet ! =0)

Went for my 1st Adult Ballet LEsson tonite... and still feeling v. happy.

It was such a good feeling to hv a 'broken dream' fulfilled. =0) Hmm, God must hv known the timing. It's the best time of my life to do more ballet now, else I wld be too old (bones matter). Anyway, i dreaded the thot of gg into class initially as I was afraid the students there would be snobbish or v.gd in ballet oreadi. HA, as if I forgot tat it's a BEGINNERs' Ballet classes for adults !

Oya, forgot to mention, it's by ECNAD dance grp (make a guess why called ECNAD) and it's at Telok Ayer Performing Arts House (v.near the MRT ! yeah). Yup, cool walk underground right up to just 200m fr. the TAPAH.

Founder of ECNAD - very dedicated. And the ballet (our class') teacher is quite gd... she gives the students tips... and realised that the gp of pple there (adults who did not do ballet before!) were 80% alumni, that they returned for 2nd or 3rd term with her. Could sense her passion and commitment to the craft as well. She was quite clear, so I guess tat makes her an experienced teacher.
Hmm.. she could also point out my 'difficulty' and weakness in not doing a good dance turn. Yep, she is experienced and somehow i sensed, willing to share slowly how to do it well - rather than brush it aside and let us 'make a step towards building wrong foundation'.

Momentum, momentum; make use of the momentum to turn ! Gd tip and also for the pointe ... plus look at the mirror, enjoy the dance and dun hesitate whilst doing the turn !!! And she taught abt the CORE strength - pulling thyself up - taut, exercising our stomach (much forgotten) muscles and keeping the buttocks in. O yes, and the head, DUN look on the floor even if the steps seem difficult and our human tendency is to look at our toes.

She seem to knoe more abt humans than some teachers i met prev. That would help all of us to learn better ! For myself, am thinking of how to build up the grace and arm-posture... to be a strong, focused, swan-like, and almst too-passionate dancer one day. Work towards eating right too... so i dun hv to look like i am 'pregnant' ! Aiyo.

Would like to continue with her, at least for one term, and already thinking of doing 3terms - for the fun, building the foundation and commitment to learn thru' a fixed instructor.
=0) Also met some nice pple (in particular Meiyan who is a Yr 1 Dentistry student! and Cassandra who does hip-hop and Swing) !

Also, =0) I love the set which she taught us tonite.. so cool to integrate wat was taught in the set and allow us to engage in ballet poses, emotions and minor challenges in the 1st lesson...
=0)
going to read up more abt Ballet Terms and Techniques and maybe post some pics of ballet and ballerinas here !

Akan Datang