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I love ballet:)

i hate ballet

When danced well it's beautiful. I love the discipline but it's not for the faint hearted :)

En pointe is very, very difficult. Demi-pointe is much easier. Ballet is the utmost graceful dance there is and therefore must be danced accordingly.

Probably wouldn't try it, but it looks ok.

takes a lot of practice and hard work and heart

i had to go through

I want to learn more.

Ballet is the hardest dance of all. Ballet dancers I think are among the most physically fit atheletes in the world. They have a truly difficult sport. And yet they make it look rediculously easy.

shhhhhhhhhhh don't tell anyone but I like the ballet

I can appreciate ballet, but it would be far from something I would enjoy.

I am a non-professional dancer and choreographer and ballet is the majority of what I'm trained in. It is the basis of ALL forms of dance so if you're planning on taking let's say jazz, take ballet as well - it will really help. Ballet is wonderful for posture, grace, balance, and all-around great exercise because it works so many muscles that many of us don't know we have. Pointework is my favorite part of ballet and unlike twinmom, I don't have ANY pain from it. There's MUCH better padding today than there was back then (now we've got comfortable gel-filled toe pads as opposed to just lambs wool) and there's even more comfortable pointe shoes (Chacott Veroneses and Gaynor Mindens, anyone?)! The best thing about ballet is, while it may be unrealistic to try for a career, no one is EVER too old to learn ballet for pure enjoyment. Believe me I've known sixtysomething grandmothers who were just starting ballet and they loved it. Well ballet is my favorite type of dance and I believe it's the most important one to learn.

Ballet is really enjoyable and is great for balance and posture

I must have an unconsious hatred for my feet. I did this for about five years growing up and I remember mostly my bleeding toenails and pounding my pointe shoes with a hammer to try to break them in faster. Ballet is pretty to watch, but it is very painful. All there is in the bottom of those point shoes is lamb's wool and that flattens to the consistency of stone fairly fast.

Ballet is the most rigorous form of dance. The discipline, precision, skill, grace, and athleticism required of ballet dancers makes all of them worthy of respect. Ballet is the foundation of all forms of dance - how can it *not* be worthy of a 5-star rating?

Magnificent to watch. I admire the talent, discipline and dedication ballet demands. As a spectator, we are very fortunate to have the San Francisco Ballet, one of the finest companies in the country. We also have Michael Smuin who takes ballet to the masses. Michael Smuin's SF Ballet is innovative and original. One of one thousand reasons we are so fortunate to live in the Bay Area.

Dont even get me started. See my name?? hehe I LIVE for Ballet!! Especially Pointe. It is an incredibly disciplined and HARD form of dance. *Ballet is life* IMO. :)

Boring to watch.

As far as watching it goes, I'm not into that, but I will admit that the people who do it are amazing athletes if that's what you want to call them.

Enjoyable to watch if you're in the mood for it. As for performing - it takes special talent, many years of dedication, not to mention you need to start when you're around three years of age. And like a professional athlete, don't expect to be doing it much past the age of 35 either.

Graceful and refined. Tight outfits. a bit too slow for many people. male ballet preformers aree scary.