The Importance Of Ballet

Ballet is an artform that, like any other, takes time to perfect. The sooner you start to work on your trade and realize the passion you have for it, the sooner that you are able to strive to perfect and chisel away at it. Most professional dancers start at a very young age, anywhere from three on. Because there are so many less men compared to women, men can usually get away with starting at a later age, say 12 to 14 or even a couple years more. I started, from scratch, when I was 18 years old, or roughly five and a half years ago. I had to learn everything about ballet in a much more condensed amount of time relative to the people who started a decade before me. My brain was being overloaded with information, terminology, etiquette and everything I …show more content…
I want to inspire, I want to show people what can be done; I will fly through the air, I will turn as though I were being spun, I will show people the beauty of an art so grand, that although I never expected to be saying or feeling any of this, this is what it has done to me.” Those feelings have not changed today. I will be the best, it is not an idea, but a destiny, one that I will make happen, one that will be true in not just my eyes, but in those of everyone who knows me, who doesn’t know me, who knows what ballet is about, who doesn’t know what ballet is about, who exists. Period. I know there will always be great dancers, and great dancers of different styles, but when it comes to ballet, I aim to be the best. I will make the mold, and I will break it. Not because I mean to be selfish or egotistical, but simply because I am happy to shed the sweat, tears, blood, and whatever it takes, to get past the top. However, this doesn 't happen instantaneously. The hardest thing is knowing that the more time I spend improving and growing as an artist, the less time I have left to reach what I want to