Last night was my first Ballet lesson! I had to leave quickly after work to meet Sanyu at the bus station, and pick up some dinner on the way. We hadn’t been to the Dance school before so we were both a bit nervous about getting lost, but the bus driver was really helpful and we got there on time!
The dance class we’re taking is Adult Beginner Ballet, as neither of us have danced for years and its more comfortable to be starting with other people our age and older who are at similar levels. We met the instructor when she arrived, I like her attitude, she’s pretty strict but still understanding since we are new. I think she threw us in the deep end a little though, we did the same exercises as everyone else and just tried to keep up for most of it!
I realised that I’ve lost a lot of my flexibility, although the stretches are the same as those I used to do for Irish Dance, so I’m going to get back in to the habit of stretching every day to try and improve that. It was interesting for me to pick up the differences between the styles, having a bar to work with is nice! Ballet is so beautiful too, the arm movements are particularly graceful.
Thanks to Sanyu for coming with me and to our Instructor and the other students who were really nice and said I have good ‘turn out.’ Can’t wait for next weeks lesson!
