Now to Ballet...
I'm continuing my jump back into dance classes -- see my post from yesterday.
Last night I took a wonderful beginner ballet class with Yoshimura Hitomi at New Dance Group - I had never heard of NDG until I saw a performance there two weeks ago. It's on 8th ave. and 38th street.
Taking a regular beginner ballet class is a bit on the challenging side for me because I've taken no more than 10-15 hours of ballet. But the class was fun and Hitomi gives a lot of helpful direction. When I figure out my "regular" dance schedule for the fall, I should probably take a combination of a real newcomer beginning ballet class along with a beginner ballet class. (If you haven't taken many concert-form dance classes, "beginner" almost never means beginner; it usually means that you have at least an introductory background in the dance form).
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Doug Fox on August 5, 2008 8:17 AM
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How true - adult beginner classes are never really for beginners. I've taken 10+ years of ballet, and I feel most comfortable in a beginner class. If anything, even if it's really simple, I can focus intensely on the detailed basics of ballet, whereas if a class is too hard I get nothing out of it because I'm lost the entire time. I'm looking forward to reading about your dance class adventures!
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